WRC 2025 Rallye Monte Carlo round-up: Ogier takes 10th Monte win

WRC 2025 Rallye Monte Carlo round-up: Ogier takes 10th Monte win

27th January 2025 0 By Kamron Kent

Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier took home an impressive 10th Rallye Monte Carlo victory as the World Rally Championship got underway as, teammate, Elfyn Evans completed a 1-2 finish for the team. 

Feature image credit: Jaanus Ree / Red Bull Content Pool

The Monte master, Ogier has secured his 10th Monte-Carlo victory as the WRC officially returned to start its 2025 campaign. The Frenchman didn’t put a foot wrong on the final day to pip Evans and Hyundai’s newcomer Adrien Fourmaux to victory. 

However, for other drivers, the rollercoaster ride of Monte Carlo took three crews on the final day with Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta and Sami Pajari, and M-Sport Ford’s Gregoire Munster DNF’ing on the opening two stages. 

Katsuta was the first to retire on SS16 as the Japanese driver understeered off the course and into a nearby bush. Despite help from his co-driver, Aaron Johnston and local bystanders, the Yaris Rally1 would not budge from its spot. 

Pajari was next – on the same stage as Katsuta – as the Finnish driver outbroke himself into a bridge and went over into a ravine, ending his first full-time round in the WRC with a DNF.  

Munster was the final DNF of the Rally1 competitors as the Luxembourg driver understeered into a grass bank on SS17. The heavy collision with the bank rotated his Rally1 Puma around and the Ford driver was not able to move from the Puma’s resting spot. 

Fortunately, all crews were okay. 

In the end, Ogier took victory for an unprecedented 10th time ahead of Evans and Fourmaux who finished the weekend in second and third respectively. Speaking at the end of the rally, the eight-time world champion dedicated the win to his ‘lucky star’ which was his Uncle who he lost last year.  

Toyota’s Kalle Rovanpera and Hyundai’s Ott Tanak completed the top five, in fourth and fifth. 

Defending world champions Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe completed their troublesome weekend in sixth, ahead of M-Sports Joshua McErlean who occupied seventh – the last of the Rally1 contenders.

Yohan Rossell was the overall winner of the WRC2 category, in eighth overall, taking victory with two minutes in hand over Eric Camilli (10th) with his brother Leo Rossell (11th) completing the podium.

Nikolay Gryazin did finish the weekend ninth overall but the Bulgarian did not nominate Monte-Carlo as a point-scoring round, so was not included in the podium celebrations for WRC2.

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Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.

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Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.

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