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WRC Monte Carlo: Remaining stage showdown set as Ogier hangs onto lead
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WRC Monte Carlo: Remaining stage showdown set as Ogier hangs onto lead

By Miles Cooper January 26, 2025
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The World Rally Championship Monte Carlo opener is ready for last stage showdown with 22.2s protecting the highest three after changeable climate situations shook up the leaderboard.

Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier is pursuing a record-extending tenth Monte Carlo win and managed to outlive tough icy situations throughout the 2 morning phases, however his lead has been lower to 18.1s by team-mate Elfyn Evans.

Hyundai’s Adrien Forumaux nevertheless is firmly within the hunt for victory simply 22.2s behind, however the Frenchman’s tyre gamble to take 4 slicks might show pivotal. The Frenchman used his Hankook rubber to blitz stage 17 Digne-les-Bains/Chaudon-Norante, taking 23.9s out of chief Ogier on winter tyres.

If the afternoon’s last stage is dry and never lined in snow as forecast, he could possibly be within the field seat to say a maiden WRC win given his nearest rivals have opted to take extra snow tyres than slicks.

Hyundai’s Ott Tanak briefly climbed to 3rd after stage 16 however dropped again to fourth [+45.5s] after struggling on winter tyres on stage 17.

Two-time world champion Kalle Rovanpera opted of the identical tyre name as Fourmaux, taking 4 tremendous softs and solely two snow tyres. After surviving the ice patches in stage 16, the Finn was the one driver in the identical time bracket as Fourmaux, simply 4.5s slower than the Hyundai.

Rovanpera’s tempo put the Toyota driver firmly within the struggle with Tanak for fourth total, sitting 3.1s adrift heading into the ultimate stage.

WRC Monte Carlo: Remaining stage showdown set as Ogier hangs onto lead

Adrien Fourmaux, Alexandre Coria, Hyundai World Rally Group Hyundai i20 N Rally1

Photograph by: McKlein / Motorsport Photographs

Reigning world champion Thierry Neuville leapt from eighth to sixth total [+5m28.4s] following drama within the extraordinarily troublesome stage 16 that put Toyota pair Takamoto Katsuta and Sami Pajari into retirement.

Katsuta, who had been sitting in sixth, was first to hit hassle when he slid off the highway 1.8km into the stage. Spectators tried to push the GR Yaris again onto the highway however their efforts weren’t profitable.

Moments later Pajari misjudged the entry right into a bridge clipping the concrete which resulted in a huge impact and an immediate retirement. Pajari and co-driver Marko Salminen had been reported OK following the crash.

The misfortune continued on stage 17 when M-Sport-Ford’s Gregoire Munster grew to become the third Rally1 automotive to retire. The Luxembourger understeered into rockface, pitching his automotive right into a violent spin together with his Puma partially blocking the highway.

M-Sport Ford Rally1 debutant Josh McErlean managed to outlive the situations to inherit seventh total [+9m33.3s], whereas WRC2 chief Yohan Rossel moved into eighth forward of Nikolay Gryazin, who suffered a puncture, and Gus Greensmith.

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