Ogier fastest on the wet Shakedown in Spain

The eight-time world rally champion Sébastien Ogier tops the Thursday morning shakedown in RallyRACC Catalunya – Costa Daurada as two Toyota Gazoo Racing automobiles are inside the high three after the session.

Some rain showers have been greeting the drivers throughout this morning and tire technique performed an enormous position all through the session, the Toyota drivers have been the one ones within the Rally1 class that ran with the Pirelli gentle tires whereas the remainder of the groups chosen the laborious compound on the 4.21 kilometers Coll de La Teixeta Shakedown stage early on.

Ogier edged the Toyota Gazoo Racing NG driver Takamoto Katsuta by simply nine-tenths of a second on his third and remaining run, whereas Pierre-Louis Loubet, who ran a complete of six instances on the stage slotted in third with a formidable time of simply 1.2 seconds slower than Ogier when he went out with gentle tires. The M-Sport Ford World Rally Workforce driver break up the 2 Toyotas of the 2022 world champion Kalle Rovanperä and Elfyn Evans, who posted fourth and fifth quickest instances respectively.

M-Sport´s Gus Greensmith additionally went for softs on his later makes an attempt and he managed to take a sixth quickest time on his fourth run, in the meantime, teammate Adrien Fourmaux, who returns to the line-up after a two-month hiatus ended with seventh quickest after having a sluggish opening run.

Craig Breen additionally driving for M-Sport was the ninth quickest and native two WRC2 drivers of Pepe López and Alejandro Cachón claimed eighth and tenth quickest instances respectively.

All Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT drivers have been struggling on the shakedown and none of them reached any high ten instances with Ott Tänaokay popping out finest with eleventh place.

Official shakedown consequence (high 10)