Winners and Losers: 2025 WRC Rally Sweden

Winners and Losers: 2025 WRC Rally Sweden

18th February 2025 0 By Kamron Kent

Toyota’s Elfyn Evans took his first victory of 2025, in the World Rally Championship’s Rally Sweden, ahead of Takamoto Katsuta but who are the winners and losers of the event?

Feature image credit: Jaanus Ree / Red Bull Content Pool

Winner: Elfyn Evans

Being the first out on the road, Toyota had expected Evans would have a challenge at the beginning. Despite sweeping the road for those out front, Evans was competitive throughout the event and led for the majority of it. 

He only lost the lead a couple of times throughout the weekend but quickly regained it. The win, by a narrow margin of 3.8 seconds, was a well-earned one for the Welshman. 

Loser: Jourdan Serderidis

Greek driver Jourdan Serderidis was no where near the top 10 all weekend, even after the opening Umea sprint. He kept himself to himself, and kept himself out of trouble. 

Despite this, he still finished the weekend 33rd overall, amongst the WRC3 runners. 26 minutes and 35.3 seconds off the pace of Evans. Whether or not he was trying to be competitive, and the other Rally1 runners demolished him, he would have to go in the loser’s section for the weekend. 

Evans ‘caught napping’ by Katsuta before Rally Sweden win

Winner: Takamoto Katsuta

It was a weekend of what-ifs for the Japanese driver. He was gunning for his maiden WRC victory and came up short-handed. He narrowly missed out on the win by 3.8 seconds as Evans pipped him to the post in the final stages. 

Despite this, Katsuta should take pride in his performance. It was one of the closer chances he has come to a win. It seems as though a win for him, finally, is just around the corner. 

Loser: Gregoire Munster

Following a strong performance in Monte, despite the late retirement, you’d expect a similar performance from Munster in Sweden as he banked on his year-long experience in the premier class last season. But, it was not to be. 

Munster seemed to struggle all weekend. He was beaten by his teammates, bar Serderidis, for the majority of the weekend and only beat Joshua McErlean thanks to the Irishman’s excursion into a snow bank. Fans and Munster will be hoping for him to have a better, and stronger, weekend in Kenya.

Winner: Martins Sesks

Again, Martins Sesks was impressive in the Ford Rally1 Puma. He was the leading Ford for the weekend with only McErlean keeping him honest within the outfit. The only time, at the end of each day, he was slower than his teammates was on the opening test. 

He took home a decent amount of points for the team and it has been confirmed that Sesks will be making an appearance in Portugal, as part of his six-race calendar with the team. Another strong performance and heads should rightly be turning.

Loser: Adrien Fourmaux

Fourmaux had a mixed weekend which went downhill on Saturday with a rookie error on the morning loop, forgetting to strap on his helmet. Fourmaux then doubled down on his misfortunes with a moment in a left-hand bend as he slid his car across a snow bank before it became buried and immovable. 

He was the only WRC Rally1 retirement of the event. Whilst he was in podium contention on the first half of the weekend, Sweden was a contrasting performance compared to his podium-sitting season opener.

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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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TagsAdrien Fourmaux Elfyn Evans Ford Gregoire Munster Hyundai Joshua McErlean Jourdan Serderidis Martins Sesks Rally Sweden Sweden Takamoto Katsuta Toyota World Rally Championship WRC

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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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