Rovanperä and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing once again dominate Rally Estonia
Rovanperä and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing once again dominate Rally Estonia
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:16 Yeah, of course, after Kenya, the feeling is good in the
00:18 team after the great result.
00:20 And now in Estonia, we have a totally different kind of
00:23 rally, going flat out from start to finish.
00:25 For sure, a rally which I like a lot.
00:27 I enjoy these roads and the surface here a lot.
00:29 So the feeling is, of course, positive at the moment.
00:33 It's very nice to be here.
00:34 And it's going to be a big challenge weekend.
00:37 But of course, now focusing to the meeting of our fans.
00:40 And we will have good times with them.
00:43 So yeah, ready to the start.
00:46 Looking forward to get going.
00:48 It's a tight and twisty start.
00:49 And then, of course, the real action starts tomorrow with
00:52 the fast and high speed stages.
00:53 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:07 So it was a really big challenge this morning.
01:11 Yeah, I think we did a good job.
01:12 We pushed really hard, no mistakes.
01:15 We tried to keep the pace up.
01:18 And yeah, the guys from behind, of course, with the
01:20 better road position, come a bit faster.
01:22 But I think we matched them as well as we can.
01:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:27 It's been tight gaps throughout the day, like
01:30 always here in Estonia.
01:31 It's been pretty fast out there.
01:33 Struggled a bit with the feeling this morning.
01:35 But that's improved during the afternoon.
01:37 Unfortunately, we have dropped a bit behind EP.
01:39 We had the second half of one stage, which was pretty poor.
01:42 Otherwise, it's been nip and tuck between us.
01:44 So he's pipped ahead of us overnight.
01:47 Obviously, still very close.
01:48 And all to play for tomorrow.
01:49 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:01 Yeah, I was struggling a lot this morning and afternoon.
02:05 Team did quite a good job to improve the car.
02:08 But still, I'm still missing a lot of confidence and rhythm
02:12 and feeling.
02:13 So I need to find out for tomorrow and to do work more
02:17 quite a lot.
02:18 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:23 Many, many things happened this afternoon.
02:26 And I was trying to improve my driving and everything.
02:29 But then a few issues happened on the car.
02:34 So it was a bit difficult to find out what is going on.
02:37 But yeah, we are able to through the stages.
02:41 And yeah, we basically finished all the stages on Saturday.
02:45 So this is the main thing.
02:46 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:51 Yeah, it seems we've been a fair bit of back and forth
02:54 during the day.
02:56 A bit more in EP's favour towards the end
02:58 of the afternoon there.
02:59 So the gap is a bit more than we'd like, of course.
03:02 But it's still relatively close.
03:04 And all to play for tomorrow.
03:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:08 Feeling is, of course, really, really great.
03:10 Amazing day.
03:11 It doesn't happen so often that you can win all the stages.
03:13 But it was clear plan in the morning
03:16 that we need to push hard to get a bit of gap if we can.
03:18 And yeah, it was clear that the pace is now with the,
03:21 let's say, fair road position was good.
03:24 And yeah, I really enjoyed the stages.
03:27 I was pushing a bit sometimes.
03:28 And then sometimes just enjoying the driving.
03:30 And it went well.
03:31 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:34 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:46 Some positive, some negatives.
03:48 Mainly I feel that a lot of negatives
03:50 this weekend for myself.
03:52 But honestly, my personal feeling is not really happy.
03:55 So I just need to analyse what was wrong
03:58 with my driving and everything.
03:59 And otherwise, rally Finland going to be the same story.
04:02 So I try to change or improve definitely for the Finns.
04:07 Today on the last day of the rally, we had an OK day.
04:10 There was one stage in particular
04:12 we weren't so strong.
04:13 And then the two runs of the power stage,
04:15 we had pretty OK runs through.
04:16 So again, a bit up and down.
04:18 But overall, we come away with some good power stage points.
04:23 Amazing feeling to do the 10th event win in Estonia,
04:26 three times in a row here.
04:27 This weekend was something special,
04:29 having all the stages from Saturday morning also.
04:32 I think we showed quite well the speed
04:35 and what the car can do.
04:37 We did a perfect job.
04:39 So it's amazing.
04:41 But it's due to the teamwork.
04:43 So not only for Kalle, but everyone worked for the team
04:48 to make a big result.
04:51 Thank you again.
04:52 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:55 (upbeat music)
04:58 (cheering)