\u201cIt\u2019s not a surprise,\u201d he said at stage-end. \u201cThis morning I\u2019ve seen the risk he\u2019s taking is too high. What is the reason?\u201d<\/p>\n
Told he was stopped with damage\u00a0to the car, Ogier added: \u201cUnfortunately it\u2019s not really a surprise, but it\u2019s a shame.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ogier does move up to second place as a result of Solberg\u2019s error however, beating Evans by 5.5s on the stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lost a bit of time having to pass him [Solberg] safely,\u201d Evans reasoned.<\/p>\n
Evans since extended his lead to exactly 20.0s after SS12.<\/p>\n
Asked to comment on Ogier\u2019s stage-end reaction, and if Solberg was pushing too hard, Toyota sporting director Kaj Lindstr\u00f6m said: \u201cI think S\u00e9b was the best one to tell, he saw the lines behind him. But it\u2019s a very unfortunate situation and it looks like he cannot continue today. So that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Addressing Ogier\u2019s comments back at the service park, Solberg said: \u201cOf course we are pushing, we are fighting for seconds in the top three of course, but it was nothing different to any other stage that I drove in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s not a surprise,\u201d he said at stage-end. \u201cThis morning I\u2019ve seen the risk he\u2019s taking is too…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,146412,87697,228869,87699,213,87700,139135],"class_list":["post-452663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oliver-solberg","tag-rally-japan","tag-rally-japan-2026","tag-sebastien-ogier","tag-sports","tag-wrc","tag-wrc-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452663","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=452663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}