Kalle Rovanperä had time to set five bottom times in a row before crashing his car from the top spot in the Jyväskylä World Rally Championship.
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JYVÄSKYLÄ.
Kalle Rovanperä crashed his car at the Myhinpää special test from the top position of the Jyväskylä World Rally Championship.
– Fortunately, Kalle and Where (carter Possessed) are fine, even though the place was really fast, the team mate who was next on the route Elfyn Evans reports.
The TV pictures said that the two were on the road to warn those coming behind.
Before his exit, Rovanperä had driven five consecutive bottom times.
– Kalle had a tough time. At ten kilometers there were differences of three and four seconds to Elfyn Evans and to Thierry Neuville. A real shame, Ralliradio’s expert Ville Pynnönen stated.
The spectators pushed Rovanperä’s car back onto its wheels. However, the battle for victory was over. Elfyn Evans moved to the top of the competition.
Neuville is the second and Takamoto Katsuta third. Evans is 10 seconds ahead of Neuville and 13 seconds ahead of Katsuta.
The best Finnish driver has now risen to fourth Teemu Suninen. Suninen’s difference to the top is 22 seconds.
– A super difficult clip. Grip varies a lot. I was informed that Kalle was outside, so I took more care. You can see from the special test times that there is no room for caution in any section, Suninen stated.
Many drivers expressed their regret about the situation in Rovanperä.
– I’m really sad. He did such a great job, Toyota driver Takamoto Katsuta described.
Also competing this week is the team manager of Toyota Jari-Matti Latvala admitted that Kalle Rovanperä’s situation affected him too.
– I was a little too cautious at the beginning, because we heard about Kalle. I think “Taka” is now in a situation where he has to help Elfyn with a championship fight in mind, but I have strong faith in my boys. I also have to trust myself a bit now, Latvala said.
Among other things, the WRC’s own live monitoring stated at the beginning that the damage to Rovanperä’s car would be too severe for the race to continue.
– The car is on the side of the road and the rally continues, Toyota’s director of sports Kaj Lindström however, commented on C More.
They had to pick up the Toyota from Myhinpää back to the service park in Jyväskylä.
– We’ll see what condition it’s in and what can be done to it, but I think we’ll still be able to fix the car.
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