Like every year, the Monte-Carlo rally opens the WRC world championship season. And guess who is in the lead half this first round of the year? A certain Sébastien Ogier, octuple world champion.
On the occasion of the 93rd Monte-Carlo rally in history, we had two fears: Sébastien Ogier and Adrien Fourmaux. And just to reassure us, the two French pilots decided to appear on the provisional podium halfway. If it is not a provocation, we do not know what it is then.
The rise of Sebastien Ogier to the
From the first two specials, Sébastien Ogier shows himself by performing the best times. It is not really an optimal strategy to redeem yourself towards us. But the octuple winner of the Monte-Carlo rally does not lose sight of our objective. After a delicate end of the day, the Toyota driver finished in third place, 12.8s from the leader Thierry Neuville, reigning world champion. But the Belgian achieved a size feat on the second day; During the same two specials spaced a few hours, it comes out in the same turn, missing the same braking. A world champion's maneuver, what do you want.
From then on, Sébastien Ogier takes out the big game. The native of Gap wins four of the first nine specials, and seizes the head of the general classification at half the course. For this, he resumed more than 23 seconds to Elfyn Evans … in a single day. And you want us to be reassured when Ogier is riding a rally car?
-After the first two days of special, Ogier is ahead of Elfyn Evans (+12.6s) and Adrien Fourmaux (+14.2s). Because yes, having a single Frenchman on the provisional podium was obviously not enough. The two tricolor pilots have 48 hours to change their behavior.
“It's a good way to end the day” Sébastien Ogier
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