Elfyn Evans will carry a 13.3-second lead into the final day of Rally Sweden, with Toyota holding a dominant 1-2-3-4 formation.<\/p>\n
Evans trailed team-mate Takamoto Katsuta by 2.8s at the beginning of Saturday, but with Katsuta struggling for grip and rhythm, the Welshman pulled clear across the second morning of the event.<\/p>\n
Never outside the top-four times all day, Evans judged things perfectly as attention turned to the\u00a0battle behind.<\/p>\n
Oliver Solberg moved\u00a0ahead of the two Hyundais of Esapekka Lappi and Adrien Fourmaux on Saturday\u2019s opening stage, instead setting his sights on third-placed Sami Pajari.<\/p>\n
But the Finn responded over the afternoon, winning two of the four tests to extend his cushion over Solberg from 24s to 33s.<\/p>\n
That, in turn, put pressure on Katsuta\u2019s\u00a0shoulders, who only has a 12.1s advantage over Pajari with a 13.3s deficit to Evans. But Katsuta is not giving up on victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne more day to go,\u201d he said. \u201cNot really happy today but we will find out what was wrong and definitely I try my best tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elfyn Evans will carry a 13.3-second lead into the final day of Rally Sweden, with Toyota holding a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,159056,159057,213,87700,139135],"class_list":["post-285648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rally-sweden","tag-rally-sweden-2026","tag-sports","tag-wrc","tag-wrc-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}