The Acropolis Rally may only comprise 15 stages in its modern World Rally Championship format, but last weekend offered a reminder that it remains one of motorsport\u2019s toughest events. Here\u2019s what you may have missed from Greece
“You never really know what is going to happen in those moments," said Rovanpera. “Everything happens quite quickly and I was just hoping that the car wouldn’t go over.”Neuville was 36 points adrift of Rovanpera heading into the weekend, but is now 66 points behindThe battle for the 2023 World Rally Championship is down to a two horse race, with Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville ruling himself out of the fight.
“Of course Kalle has taken away 30 points again which is obviously not ideal in terms of the big picture, but if we rewind the clocks to Saturday I thought I was packing up and going home,” Evans told Autosport.“It is big [points] gap and it needs to come down if we want to have chance to do it at the end of the year.
Following a request from drivers, rally organisers, in conjunction with the FIA, conducted special recce runs of the stages, using the WRC teams’ recce vehicles, to provide up to date videos and information regarding the road conditions. Mikkelsen’s left rear tyre delaminated on stage two dropping him to 16th in class. A second left rear let go on the following stage, before his nightmare came to an end when amazingly a third left rear punctured on stage five.
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