What we learned from the first 2 stages of 2024

After the first 2 stages of rally Monte Carlo and the 2024 season Elfyn Evans leads the way from the Hyundai of Thierry Neuville and Sebastian Ogier who was “cautious” through the two stages 4th belonged to Ött Tanäk who had throttle issues and lost a lot of time. An impressive return to a Rally-1 car for Adrien Fourmaux as he rounds off Thursday in 5th position, Katsuta 6th with not much to report only “Taking it easy” through the night stages. Mikkelsen described his first experience of Rally-1 power as “Fu***ng fast” on Wednesdays shakedown stage he ends the day in 8th and Gregoire Munster posting very respectable times on par with Mikkelsen who had Hybrid mapping issues.

At the end of the day all 8 rally-1 cars lineup for the first stage of Friday. In Wrc-2 Pepe López leads the way after having an amazing two stages on Thursday evening just behind him by 0.8 seconds is Nikolay Gryazin and third 10.1 further back is Yohan Rossel who is finding his C3 R5 a handful so far The first stage kicks off at 7:51 tomorrow morning.