At 21, Kalle Rovanperä is coming of age at the peak of rallying. Is he the new prince of WRC?
’s Welshman is also an emerging world-class talent, but even without those setbacks, he would have been hard-pressed to live with Rovanperä, who scooped six of the day’s eight stage wins.
Such assumptions are foolish in rallying. Toyota’s forecasts predicted no rain for the final morning, so Rovanperä took four hardcompound Pirellis and a couple of wet-weather spares for insurance, Tänak andgambling on softs with a pair of wets in reserve. They wouldn’t be coming back to the service park once they set out for the final four stages, so this choice was crucial – and it backfired spectacularly for Rovanperä when a downpour soaked the penultimate test.
He didn’t say much at the stage’s end. He didn’t need to: the look on his face spoke volumes. Heading into the final Power Stage, suddenly his comfy lead had become a 1.4sec deficit. All would come down to the final eight miles.The rain had stopped on the Power Stage and the roads were dry, yet with Rovanperä still on four hard-compound Pirellis versus Tänak’s four softs, Toyota hearts sank.“There was quite a lot of mud on the road and we knew Ott had better tyres.
Rovanperä wasn’t about to get carried away , but the magnitude of what he had pulled off wasn’t lost on him.
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