M-Sport’s Ott Tanak has claimed the Rally Sweden lead on Friday morning of the WRC’s snow event, as the leaderboard underwent a significant shake up. Here's the full report from TommyHoward ⬇️
The 2019 world champion moved into a 2.1s over Hyundai’s Craig Breen, competing in his first event of his partial WRC campaign after departing M-Sport, as tricky snow and icy conditions benefitted those running lower down in the road order.Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi made the most of his road position to reach service in third, 4.1s adrift.and world champion Kalle Rovanpera dropped to fourth, 4.7s back, as he limited the damage of his unfavourable road position.
Breen completed the test 3.8s faster than Tanak, who has taken the seat vacated by 33-year-old for this season. Hyundai’s Lappi continued to highlight the speed he displayed in Thursday night’s opener to clock the third fastest time, despite a small moment in the stage. Tanak slightly extended his overall lead by 0.6s over Breen as the pair logged times good enough for fourth and fifth fastest.However, Neuville and Evans continued to struggle. The pair ran wide at the same long left hander, with the latter extremely lucky to continue after a heavy collision with a snowbank.
“I was very close to missing the braking on one junction - I had to drive into a snowbank to get it stopped," said Breen. “No dramas, I'm just trying to perfect my braking wherever I can.”
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