ROVANPERA STILL ON COURSE FOR WORLD CROWN
Kalle Rovanpera made up for his car-wrecking stage-two crash on the Ypres Rally by taking five Powerstage points to head to next month’s Acropolis Rally 72 points ahead in the World title chase.
Rovanpera arrived in Belgium with an outside chance of becoming the youngest World champion, only for his huge crash from the lead to delay the celebrations.
“The season has been good until this point and sometimes mistakes happen,” said Rovanpera. “After the crash we did everything we could to bounce back which was important, and it was a nice way to thank the mechanics for the great work they did repairing the car. In the Powerstage it was not easy to step up the pace after driving quite safely before that, but it was good to get the maximum five points and it means that the gap in the championship hasn’t closed too much.”