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june 12, 2017 - Toyota

WRC - Podium for Latvala, Points and Fastest Times for Lappi and Hänninen

Tommi Mäkinen  (Team Principal) "This was one of our strongest rallies without a doubt. The results we had here speak for themselves, so the only thing for me to say is many thanks to the #people who make this all possible: drivers, co-drivers, engineers, mechanics and team. It's because of them that we can achieve this in only the first half of our first season. But of course we have plenty more work Jari-Matti Latvala  (Driver car 10) "In the end, we were quite close and so I'm happy about this result but I'm a bit disappointed with myself after two mistakes I made today: on the second stage this morning I stalled the car when I was in second gear in the high ruts, then when the same stage was run again as the Power Stage this afternoon I couldn't get the car turning around the junction. Anyway, all in all I'm happy for the team: it was a good result and a good performance." Juho Hänninen  (Driver car 11) "There are many positives we can take away: we tested a lot of things and we gathered lots of useful information for the future. Unfortunately, today we had an intermittent steering issue―the same thing as yesterday―and that cost us a bit of time. But still we score some good points and my best result so far in the #yariswrc. After the #rally, it's easy to regret the mistake I made on the last stage of Friday: that certainly penalised us in the start order on Saturday, so maybe things could have been different. It's all part of the sport though and the main thing is we have a good team result with all three cars." Esapekka Lappi  (Driver car 12) "I'm happy with this #rally, we learned a lot. Today was good, especially the Power Stage, as that's a stage where a lot of the drivers are pushing very hard. For the first two stages today I was in full tyre saving mode: that's why the times were not so good but in any case we had nothing to lose or gain. Then on the stage before the Power Stage I pushed a little bit harder to get a feel for the speed again, then on the Power Stage it was full attack, but we had no problems: clean with no mistakes. On this #rally, the most important thing I learned was the driving style of the car on these slow and twisty roads; now I need to find out a bit more about how to drive the car when we get to fast roads." FINAL RESULT, #rally ITALIA #sardegna 1 Ott Tanak / Martin Jarveoja (Ford Fiesta WRC) 3h25m15.1s 2 Jari-Matti Latvala / Miikka Anttila (Toyota Yaris WRC) +12.3s 3 Thierry Neuville / Nicolas Gilsoul (Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC) +1m07.7s 4 Esapekka Lappi / Janne Ferm (Toyota Yaris WRC) +2m12.9s 5 Sebastien Ogier / Julien Ingrassia (Ford Fiesta WRC) +3m25.3s 6 Juho Hänninen / Kaj Lindström (Toyota Yaris WRC) +3m38.5s 7 Mads Ostberg / Ola Floene (Ford Fiesta WRC) +6m31.8s 8 Andreas Mikkelsen / Anders Jaeger (Citroen C3 WRC) +8m07.8s 9 Eric Camilli / Benjamin Veillas (Ford Fiesta R5) +11m15.8s 10 Jan Kopecky / Pavel Dresler (Skoda Fabia R5) +11m21.4s 2017 FIA WORLD #rally CHAMPIONSHIP FOR DRIVERS AFTER ROUND SEVEN 1 Sebastien Ogier 141 2 Thierry Neuville 123 3 Ott Tanak 108 4 Jari-Matti Latvala 107 5 Dani Sordo 70 6 Elfyn Evans 53 7 Craig Breen 43 8 Hayden Paddon 33 9 Juho Hänninen 29 10 Kris Meeke 27 11 Esapekka Lappi 20 2017 FIA WORLD #rally CHAMPIONSHIP FOR MANUFACTURERS AFTER ROUND SEVEN 1 M-Sport World #rally Team 234 2 Hyundai Motorsport 194 3 #toyotagazooracing WRT 143 4 Citroen Total Abu Dhabi World #rally Team 97 (Results as of 20:00 on Sunday local time, for the latest results please visit www.wrc.com)
What's next? The next round of the World #rally Championship is #rally Poland from 29 June to 2 July. Based on Mikolajki, it consists of fast roads made up of sandy gravel, with speeds that are close to those of #rally Finland. Ambient temperatures are again likely to be warm and there will once more be three Yaris WRCs taking the start, for Latvala, Hänninen and Lap

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