S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Oliver Solberg have explained their retirements from first and second place of Safari Rally Kenya.<\/p>\n
Nine-time world champion Ogier was one of the three provisional podium-dwelling Toyota drivers to retire on the Sleeping Warrior stage. Like erstwhile leader Solberg, Ogier\u2019s GR Yaris Rally1 stopped on the road sectopn with an alternator issue after the car ingested mud in the morning\u2019s final test.<\/p>\n
Ogier said: \u201cWe got the alarm on the finish line of the Sleeping Warrior \u2013 alternator issue and then the road section was unfortunately a bit too long to reach the service park. We tried everything we could on the road section to fix it try to find a way to make this alternator running again, but unfortunately it didn\u2019t, and yeah, we had to retire.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like some mud is coming in. I think I\u2019ve been told that one of our cars actually managed to fix it. It also had an issue, but managed to somehow put clean water on it again and it started running again. We did that too, but unfortunately it didn\u2019t solve our issue. I changed the belt, did everything I could do, but it wasn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00e9bastien Ogier and Oliver Solberg have explained their retirements from first and second place of Safari Rally Kenya.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,146412,177953,177954,87699,213,87700,139135],"class_list":["post-331308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oliver-solberg","tag-safari-rally-kenya","tag-safari-rally-kenya-2026","tag-sebastien-ogier","tag-sports","tag-wrc","tag-wrc-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331308","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=331308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}