WRC Rally Italia Sardegna 2025

[PLuto]

Very wise PS order, cuz wrc2 has a massive fight dow here. So making condition more equal - its good

They should send at least Gryazin and Solberg between first cars as both are not fighting for WRC2 points and their position in overal classification cannot change.

[PLuto]

Because of service and no time for regruop

There was enough time in regroup...

[TypeR]

It's a stupid rule, but rules are rules.


Ogier unfastened his seat belts, removed his gloves and opened
the chin strap of his helmet between the Flying Finish and Stop control of SS 13.

1500€ fine

[AE1WRC]

kinda like it has been the last 15 years. ogier just wins and the rest thinks of reasons why they don't.

I always felt rovanpera has been overrated by many. he is good, among the best. but he has had the luck of a superior car and no ogier in equal machinery.
the same for tanak, he was lucky that ogier went to citroen and not toyota in 2019.

Overrated ? Wow that is crazy. If you want to make this argument why not do with Ogier in VW which was the best car at that period and Loeb retired when he started winning. You can't call a driver overrated who has made history in the sport.

Both Tanak and Rovanpera are not overrated. Especially Tanak in my opinion is underrated.

[AE1WRC]

Based on two last rallies (not only but those rallies have been very strong) I would say Tänak is getting the nr 1 hunter, Kalle still doesnt havent found the correct click on gravel, just look even this event, a minute loss to Ogier and Tänak. some good stage times but very unstable with the times overall.

Evans should be very worried, his speed on two last rallies has been miserbale even with better starting positions, IMO its actually worse than his speed while opening the road

If Evans keeps driving at this pace he will not challenge both Kalle and Ott for the remainder of the season. Kalle now getting better with these new tyres on gravel and Ott is showing great speed this season. Only question about Ott is the reliability of Hyundai and unfortunately with this car he is not better than Kalle on Tarmac. In high speed events Toyota has the edge. Remember Tanak was going absolute flat out to win 2022 Finland and he barely managed that by 6 seconds over Rovanpera.

[deephouse]

Remember that Evans lost only one point against 2nd placed driver on the leaderboard after this event. So yes, if he will be driving at this pace, he will still win the title. Also last year consistency in Neuville bring him the title. Not wins.

[AE1WRC]

Evans cannot keep showing this slow pace and capitalising from others mistakes because this will eventually come to end. He needs to step up a bit in terms of pure speed.

His rivals are 2 world champions. I think Elfyn has another difficult task ahead of him sweeping the road in Greece. His chance is only when Kalle and Ott have problems in my opinion.

However it is incredible to see that all 3 contenders Ott Kalle and Evans are very consistent this season (Ogier as well but he is part time at least for now)

[focus206]

Remember that Evans lost only one point against 2nd placed driver on the leaderboard after this event. So yes, if he will be driving at this pace, he will still win the title. Also last year consistency in Neuville bring him the title. Not wins.

What do you mean only one point? Evans had 30 points of advantage over the 2nd place (Kalle) before Sardegna, now he has 19 points over Ogier

[AE1WRC]

What do you mean only one point? Evans had 30 points of advantage over the 2nd place (Kalle) before Sardegna, now he has 19 points over Ogier

I think what he means is that a 2nd placed driver scores 17 pts (except Sunday points and PS) and Elfyn scored 15. But even that is the case that is 2 points less not 1 so not sure what he meant

[Eli]

At this point I’d say it is a shame the promoter, FIA and everyone else involved haven’t learned the lesson from the 2 previous seasons and put a tarmac event after Finland, if only to balance the calendar out and give all the crews a bit of a break after all these harsh gravel rallies (especially now when we have Kenya, Sardegna & Greece in the first half of the season), yes I know it’s a bit besides the point but I do think it would to some extent level the playing field.