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Some of the action from today at SweetLamb stage
M-Sport Ford World Rally Team’s Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin continued their stage-winning performance into the second day of competition at Wales Rally GB - proving what they and the EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta WRC are capable of on home soil.
Posting the fastest time through all of this morning’s three stages, the Welsh dragon had a point to prove and expertly demonstrated what might have been were it not for the puncture he suffered yesterday morning.
The puncture cost the Welshman 43.3 seconds to the leaders, and he now finds himself just 50 seconds adrift of the lead. But what’s done is done, and he continues to climb the standings whilst drawing confidence from the strong performance he and Martin are delivering on their return to the championship.
Pontus Tidemand and Ola Fløene were also getting to grips with the power and performance of the top-specification Fiesta, and found a good set-up for the morning stages. Able to focus more fully on his driving, the young Swede reduced the gap to the leaders and will be keen for similar progress through tomorrow’s closing stages.
But there was less good news for Teemu Suninen and Jarmo Lehtinen who went off the road on the first pass of Sweet Lamb Hafren (SS13). Although they managed to complete the day, upon their return to service the team discovered that there was too much damage to repair in the time allowed and were forced to retire the Finns from the even
8 сен 2024
