[WRC] 70th Rally Finland 2021

[er88]

Impressed by Breen, thought Tanak could've gobbled him up this morning. But Evans is on another level entirely, amazing drive (but agree that it looks like he is on the ragged edge). Good for the championship this

[meh]

Evans did brilliant job, dominated the morning (Mikkelsen, take a look here what "domination" means). A bit surprised, that Evans got this Yaris flying and Rovanperä struggled.

Huyndais seems to be in the limiter entire day alrady. Hats off for Breen as well, taking in account the lack of seat time (compared to Tänak for example), he can post good stage times with equal road position as well.

[doubled1978]

I’m not sure what to think about the relative car performance between Toyota and Hyundai here, generally the Hyundai’s look the best, but then you see Evans times and he’s faster than them.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

What a drive by Evans with 5 stage wins in a row (incl last night) and taking it to the two Hyundai's of Breen and Tanak. Just awesome.

[KiwiWRCfan]

An animated graphic of how the rally is unfolding
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/7413572/
Click several drivers names to highlight their progress
You can use an avatar to open a photo of each drivers car

[Lead]

Really impressed by Evans so far. Not the guy who I imagined to set a pace in Finland.

[EstWRC]

Tänak saying to Estonian media that Evans is showing what the Toyota is capable of on these roads.

Also thinks Evans was little bit hampered yesterday by the road position

[dimviii]

eWRC-results
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Rumours @KalleRovanpera
will not restart tomorrow because of back injury? #WRCLive

[Danny0405]

Impressive morning for Breen and even more Evans. I think Hyundai’s drivers should make an all-in on this afternoon, they have nothing to lose

Ogier stays on the road, he has no better to do now; the same for Neuville and the M-Sport. A little the same for Lappi, not impressive but not bad for a comeback rally.

For Rovanpera, let’s see if he is really injured but with Spain so close, he should take no risk as he has no real challenge remaining (power stage with a bad road position and Toyota has a good margin in the manufacturer championship) here. A little disappointing as he was «*favorite*» for the win but it is part of the learning.

Really difficult second half-season for Katsuta and the next two rallyes are not favourable for him on tarmac. Not all his fault (Estonia, Greece) but disappointing because we could have waited from him to get closer from a manufacturer-entry level and even be in the discussion for the shared third car. At least, he gets an additional season in WRC in 2022 thanks to his first half.

In RC2, strong fight between Suninen, Lindholm and Ostberg in less than 10sec

[dimviii]

Breen
https://twitter.com/planetemarcus/st...73258661138434