Evans won a cruel safari rally to promote WRC title bid

Toyota Elephin Evans After re -adding the incident, he won the second win of the World Rally Championship season to promote the expectations of his title after escaping the most difficult Safari rally since again.

Evans and co-operators Scott martin Hyundai emerged from a fierce 21-phase rally with 1M09.9S victory Oat TanakWorld champion rule Thierry neurville Hyundai’s best safari was recovered from Evans, 3M32.0S to mark the result.

Evans won the first for a British driver at the Safari rally since the 2002 victory in 2002. It came during an incident where WRC drivers remained silent in response to drivers using inappropriate language until the power stage in response to Fiah’s clampdown after being silent in the stage-end interview.

While Toyota won its 100% win in Kenya since the WRC returns in 2021, it was away from plain sailing for Evans and Japanese brands.

This year’s extended 384 km version provided a mixture of cruel roads and wild weather, to the testing limit of drivers and machines. The only rally to avoid a major mechanical issue during the Evans incident was 1 driver, but it was not easy for Welshman.

Evans led the rally after winning a super special stage in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Thursday, but came to fifth position after Stage Two. Evans shot the leaderboard quickly to sit behind Tanak 24.4, who dominated three out of four phases on Friday morning.

The lead on the stage nine changed when Tanak’s i20N, running without upgrades of 2025, faced a driving failure that promoted Evans for the lead. Evans had never been done despite being suffering from two punctures, and when torrential rains created some of the worst conditions in the history of the incident on Saturday.

On Sunday morning, a brief intimidation was when Toyota of Evans developed an issue that was fixed on a road section.

Evans opted not to attack for super Sunday and power stage points, but still left the event with 27 points, which to take a 36 -point lead over Neurville – the largest margin for a driver after three rounds in WRC history.

The issue of Driveshaf of Tanak initially took the 2019 world champion third, 55.4S to third place, as Toyota’s Kalale fell second from Rowanpera Evans, behind 7.7.

However, the Rowanpera rally began on Saturday morning when the two -time safari winner picked up two punctures, the other is coming from hitting a rock, while the Zebra had gone out of the road to escape from the herd.

Another collision with a rock in the waterlogged stage 14 (Sleeping Warrier) damaged its Toyota’s left-rear suspension, indicating a mekshift repair with the use of shaft straps. Finn left his car back to serve fifth for more than six minutes. The expectation of Rowanpara’s important championship points ended on Sunday when an alternator issue forced him to retire. The death of the Rowanpera on Saturday helped Tannak to finish second despite battling a blurred windscreen and a puncture.

Neauville inherited the third inheritance after a chaotic start for the rally for the rescue champion, which began with a loss of 20 seconds on a driving issue on stage two. Hyundai opted to change the transmission as a precautionary, which meant that the neurville had reached the late stage 3 and was killed with a one -minute fine. Stage 5 began a jump in stage 5, followed by a cooling issue late in stage eight, which meant that neurville stored the punishment during two minutes time.

The neurville, who was struggling with the disease, was able to survive in the final stages of Saturday and Sunday to claim the third. Team partner Adrian Formox Following an electricity issue, a maximum of 10 points on the super Sunday rescued him, forcing him to retire on Thursday, after which he was dropped from Friday after a broken suspension.

Toyota Takmoto katsususa Food appeared to a commendable fourth finish after battling through a match of poisoning and to a commendable fourth finish after delay due to six punctures through the event. Katsuta displayed the stunning speed in the wet and of course to snatch the third place before the end of its puncture at Stage 16. However, as a result of a dramatic roll in the final stages, he had to crawl by the end of the final phase in the final stage, but it is not clear that he will reach the last time control.

Sami Pajari After being among the drivers killed by the puncture, Toyota duly inherited the safari debut.

Gregor Munter M-Sport-Ford charged, a series of punctures on Thursday, high, a suspension failure and a gearbox issue, Luxembourg, with the winning, took the sixth, 11M35.3s to the sixth position. Team’s partner Josh McRlen finished fourth on Friday, but ended out on Saturday after losing about 30 minutes, repairing a broken steering arm, out of the 11th position posts.

Get seventh place Gus greensomith Title’s favorite WRC2 honor from Jan Solan Oliver solberg Retired when his Skoda was stuck in the staging sand on stage intake.