Evans takes WRC Safari Rally Kenya lead on day two
22nd March 2025Toyota’s championship leader Elfyn Evans holds onto the rally lead following a tough second day at the World Rally Championship’s Safari Rally Kenya.
Feature image credit: Jaanus Ree / Red Bull Content Pool
Evans is now the overall rally leader having overtaken a dominant Hyundai, driven by Ott Tanak, in the early stages. A total of eight stages were completed on the second day of the event.
Whilst many drivers took caution in the fesh-fesh of Africa, Tanak took the advantage and stormed ahead. In the opening two stages, the Estonian took the wins and followed this up with two more on SS6 and SS8.
However, a faulty drive shaft brought all of his hard work down to nothing by stage nine as his 46.1-second advantage was cut down and he fell to third, 55.4 seconds off the pace of Evans.
Tanak was not the only one to have trouble as teammate Adrien Fourmaux had more problems after electrical issues on the opening day. As he drove through the second run of Camp Moran, the Frenchman hit the fesh-fesh hard.
This broke the suspension of his Hyundai Rally1 car and forced him into retirement once more.
Who finished where on day two?
Evans, as previously stated, stands as the rally leader, 7.7 seconds ahead of his teammate – and two-time WRC champion – Kalle Rovanpera as Tanak completed the top three.
Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville completed the day in fourth ahead of Takamoto Katsuta, fifth. The Toyota of Sami Pajari and M-Sport Ford of Joshua McErlean occupied sixth and seventh.
Three WRC2 contenders completed the overall top 10 with Kajetan Kajetanowicz leading the times ahead of Gus Greensmith and Jan Solans, in eighth, ninth and 10th respectively.
This left M-Sport drivers Gregoire Munster and Jourdan Serderidis to complete the WRC Rally1 entries down in 11th and 13th, overall.
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