Rally Greece: Tanak leads Hyundai’s search for win ahead of Ogier
29th June 2025Hyundai’s Ott Tanak is on the verge of securing the South Korean manufacturer’s first win of the 2025 World Rally Championship at the Acropolis Rally Greece.
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Day three of the Greek rally has been completed with another six-stage day, and Tanak is leading Hyundai’s charge as the team looks to secure their first win of the season.
The Estonian has kept himself out of trouble and has been handsomely rewarded, securing five out of six stage wins on Saturday. Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier’s stage win on stage 10, Inohori, ruined the Hyundai crew’s clean sweep of stage wins.
Hyundai teammate Adrien Fourmaux was sitting in second place at the start of the day, following his climb on Friday, but the Frenchman suffered trouble on stage 10. Fourmaux clipped a bank on a left-right kink with his rear-right tyre, and the contact cost him over a minute in time.
Despite dropping down the order, the Frenchman was able to hold onto third.
Further back, Greece was unforgiving to their teammate, and defending world champion, Thierry Neuville. The Belgian collected yet another puncture, on the opening stage, after picking up two on Friday.
Toyota suffered a blow as both Kalle Rovanpera and Takamoto Katsuta went off on the second pass of Pavliani, SS11. Rovanpera couldn’t slow down enough and hung over a cliff edge before returning, slowly, to the stage, whilst Katsuta suffered a similar issue and beached his Yaris just before the stage end.
How the third day ended…
Tanak remains the rally leader with an elapsed time of two hours, 30 minutes and 29.5 seconds, hunting down his and Hyundai’s first win of the season. He was accompanied by Ogier, 35.7 seconds behind, in second, as Fourmaux completed the top three in third.
Toyota’s championship leader, Elfyn Evans and Neuville rounded out the top five, in fourth and fifth, respectively, ahead of M-Sport Ford’s leading driver, Gregoire Munster, in sixth.
The Luxembourg crew were the last Rally1 crew inside the top 10 as Oliver Solberg led the WRC2 competitors in seventh. The Swedish driver was accompanied by Gus Greensmith, Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Yohan Rossell in eighth, ninth and 10th.
M-Sport Ford’s Joshua McErlean was the leading Rally1 driver outside the top 10, in 15th, ahead of teammate Martins Sesks and Toyota’s Sami Pajari, in 18th and 54th overall.
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