Ott Tanak flies to his first win in Finland

[Blexfraptor]

The Estonian is within 4 stages of scoring victory after dominating the first two stages with an iron hand. Ogier and Neuville do not raise their heads.

It is not giving option to its rivals. Except in a few sections in which Mads Ostberg presented him with some battle in the first stage, Ott Tanak is dominating with an iron hand the Rally Finland and is already just 45 kilometers from his first triumph in the specialty university, the second of the Toyota Yaris, who also won last year in which is his home test.

If on the first day there was some excitement, in the second Tanak put the direct and flew to a solid lead. He won the first five stages of the day and increased his advantage over Ostberg, who now sees his second place endangered by the attack of the other Toyota of Jari-Matti Latvala. The Finn has also tightened and approached the Norwegian Citroën a lot, with which the first place in the 4 stages of the final stage will be played. It will be the great incentive, since the triumph seems sentenced.

Also it will be interesting the fight for the "pedrea", the points of the final section, the Power Stage, in which surely two men are going to put all the meat in the spit. Because the two riders leading the World Cup, Thierry Neuville and Sebastien Ogier, still have not lifted their heads. The Belgian has gone second all day and cleaning the road little or nothing he has been able to do to fight and is still tenth. The French five-time champion had a better starting position, but he has not managed to do some time to right, fighting all day with his set-up. Maybe the change of aerodynamics and shock absorbers that promised extra competitiveness for your Ford have achieved the opposite effect, and the Frenchman is missing a golden opportunity to subtract points from the leader.

The drama for the Finnish fans, who see that this year they miss the absolute triumph, is that their great hope, the young Kalle Rovanpera, who dominated the WRC2 category with ease at age 17, has lost the lead to get a cushion for the hood in full stretch.

 

Classification
1 Tanak-Jarveoja (Est / Toyota), 2: 13: 18.2

2 Ostberg-Eriksen (Nor / Citroën), to 39s

3 Latvala-Anttila (Fin / Toyota), at 44.4s

4 Lappi-Ferm (Fin / Toyota), at 1: 20.6

5 Paddon-Marshall (Nzl / Hyundai), at 1: 29.6