WRC Rally Islas Canarias 2026

**linni** · 25th April 2026, 13:13

Originally Posted by Belrally

To be honest, I think it’s the lack of competition at the top level that makes this rally boring, rather than the rally itself. Hopefully, next year Toyota’s WRC27 won’t be too dominant and a few of the top Rally2 drivers will be in the mix for podium places and wins.

AFAIK Toyota is pretty clueless at the moment where to find the speed for the WRC 2027 to match the speed of WRC 2.

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 25th April 2026, 13:27

Crazy close times between the Top 3 Toyota's... you have to enjoy that.

**jonkka** · 25th April 2026, 13:34

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Crazy close times between the Top 3 Toyota's... you have to enjoy that.

All five were inside 1.6sec of each others on this one.

**denkimi** · 25th April 2026, 13:48

Originally Posted by Belrally

To be honest, I think it’s the lack of competition at the top level that makes this rally boring, rather than the rally itself. Hopefully, next year Toyota’s WRC27 won’t be too dominant and a few of the top Rally2 drivers will be in the mix for podium places and wins.

lack of competition? ogier vs solberg vs evans. neuville vs fourmaux vs sordo.

the only thing missing is competition between constructors.

**Fast Eddie WRC** · 25th April 2026, 14:43

Dead level fastest time now !

**jonkka** · 25th April 2026, 15:47

Armstrong off

**becher** · 25th April 2026, 15:54

He did well backing out of it, instead of trying to make the corner.

**doubled1978** · 25th April 2026, 19:02

Originally Posted by becher

He did well backing out of it, instead of trying to make the corner.

Yeah, he actually saved it well.
Bit of a silly mistake though, they are only racing themselves here as the car is so poor, after already having two close shaves earlier in the rally there was no need for it.
The lad is quick, but he does need to cut the mistakes out.

**becher** · 25th April 2026, 20:04

Originally Posted by doubled1978

Yeah, he actually saved it well.
Bit of a silly mistake though, they are only racing themselves here as the car is so poor, after already having two close shaves earlier in the rally there was no need for it.
The lad is quick, but he does need to cut the mistakes out.

Hmhm although I found him "disappointing". His advantage of McErlean seems smaller than on any other rally so far.

**speederbee** · 26th April 2026, 00:30

Originally Posted by becher

Hmhm although I found him "disappointing". His advantage of McErlean seems smaller than on any other rally so far.

I agree. Armstrong has been a few seconds faster on most stages but has made a couple big mistakes. McErlean is doing comparatively well here.

It obviously can't happen, but, it'd be fun if halfway through the season once Toyota has secured the manufacturer's championship, they put Ogier, Evans, and Solberg in Msports while Armstrong, McErlean, and Fourmax get Toyotas