Tanak Power Steering Issue Hands Ogier Surprise Rally Portugal lead

A cruel power steering failure is severely dent Oat TanakThe hopes of the first win of the World Rally Championship season, handed over the rally to the Sebastian Ogier under the leadership of Portugal.

Hyundai driver appeared in the command of the rally since Stage 2 of Friday, which was holding an eight -time world champion and six -time Portugal winner Ogier’s Toyota.

After opening a seven-second lead after a cruel 10-step leg on Friday, Tanak managed to avoid pressure from the Ogier on Saturday morning as he saw his lead for two seconds.

Tanak was able to respond to thanks to his i20N rally 1, despite being suffering from a left-rear puncture. Three consecutive stage wins increased their profits up to 13.9S on the Ogier, before a power steering failure hit Midway through Stage 17 (Amarasant, 22.10 km).

Tanak dropped 45.6S in the stage as he wrestled the car through the stage as a co-operator. Martin jarveja Tanak helped change the gear to allow the car to focus on steering. The 2019 world champion raised the car through the final phase of the day at the Lusda rally Cross Circuit, which ranks third of the 36.1 Adrift of Toyota, Ogier.

“(This) is part of the game that I think. It is very unfortunate, but we gave everything from our side. What else can I say,” Tanak said.

The problem of Tanak shifted the Ogier in a 27.6 lead over the Toyota team fellow Kalale Rowanpera.

“This is not the way you want to win any battle. We both were really hard pushing, trying to maintain pressure. It is still not over, yesterday it’s a long day,” said Ogier.

Prior to Tanak’s play, Rowanpara was closed in a fierce battle for the final podium spot with the Toyota team partner. Takmoto katsususa,

After battling the marathon on Friday, the second place on the road, the Rowanpera made a 1.2nd difference on the katasuta on Saturday. Rowanpera opted to take two hard compound tires as part of his package and opted to slip behind the katasuta on stage 13.

However, Rowanpera bounced back to regain the third place after the next test (Amarrant 1, 22.10 km). Despite accepting that the stages were “impossible” to obtain tires to work in the second pass, the Rowanpera cleaned the katasata.

Qatasuta, struggling at night stages, fell into Hyundai’s clutches Thierry neurvilleBelgium was fighting in the morning loop with its back end of its i20 N, which was incredibly managed to exceed a brave run through a brave run and Tyota from 2.9S before scoring a brave run through a brave run and Tyota through 2.9S to put pressure on the ketsuta.

Sami Pajari Enjoyed a trouble-free drive to finish the day in the sixth 17.5s before the championship leader Elephin EvansThe time that was lost after the set of overnight, it changed.

Josh McRlen came at the top of the McRlen M-Sport-Fords in front of the eighth place (+4M13.2S) Gregor MunterOne who managed to shut down this gap also took his team partner to 28.5s.

The top 10 was completed by the WRC2 runner head Oliver solbergSweda navigate with 50.1S gains through seven stages Gus greensomith,

The rally will end on Sunday after six phases, including 72.16 km.