Hi, friends!
Yeah, Frenchman Adrien Fourmaux (Hyundai) waited for this for a long time, to finish a day of World Rally Championship as a leader, and he finally achieved that. I guess that the next goal is to win WRC rally.
Rally Chile is not an easy rally from what I saw in the videos from event. It looks like a former glorious Wales Rally GB, but with more audience (because that event didn't have much fans on the stages in last few editions).
From what I can see is that Hyundai and Toyota are pretty much levelled and that's good for the sport. M-Sport is just back without a top driver which Adrien Fourmaux was when he drove for them in previous seasons.
So Hyundai has 1-2 lead in Fourmaux and current WRC champion Thierry Neuville while eight-time champion Seb Ogier (Toyota) is very close in 3rd place with his team mates Sami Pajari and Elfyn Evans in 4th and 5th place overall.
All five drivers are very close and anything can happen until the end of Sunday. Let the best win - as always...
https://youtu.be/Xk1yCwDb1Hw?si=nQ3WJSHoYjFMCfK9
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