Rally Greece: Katsuta and Rovanpera have incidents at Pavliani
28th June 2025Toyota’s crews, driven by Kalle Rovanpera and Takamoto Katsuta, have both had incidents out on the second pass of Pavliani at the World Rally Championship’s Acropolis Rally Greece.
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Toyota have suffered a blow as two of their cars have had two separate incidents at the 11th stage of the weekend, Pavliani 2, with Rovanpera and Katsuta with both crews going off the stage at different points.
Mid stage, Rovanpera couldn’t slow down the car enough to a right-hand bend. Despite the Finnish world champions’ best efforts with the handbrake to rotate the car around, the two-time world champion slipped off the edge of the course. He was soon back on the stage, but was seen driving slowly.
Shortly after, Katsuta had his moment just a couple of corners from the stage end. He tried to slow his car on the sandy gravel, into a left-hand turn, and beached his Yaris on a mound of gravel, outside the corner. Despite his pleas to get help for spectators to push him back onto the stage, the Yaris remained beached.
However, Katsuta has finally got to the end of the stage, and it cost the Japanese driver 23 minutes, dropping him 40 minutes behind the leading Hyundai, Ott Tanak. Rovanpera is yet to complete the stage, according to the live timing boards.
At the time of their respective incidents, Katsuta was on course for a good rally weekend as he sat fifth in the overall leaderboards, behind teammate and championship leader Elfyn Evans, whilst Rovanpera occupied eighth.
As it stands, Sebastien Ogier and Elfyn Evans are the leading crews with the former sitting just behind Tanak, in second place, 35.7 seconds behind the Estonian’s pace. Evans remains fourth.
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