The penultimate round of this year’s World Rally Championship (WRC), held in Catalunya, was a trick for Toyota. With the victory of Sébastien Ogier, very comfortable on the asphalt of northern Spain, Toyota Gazoo Racing added another victory this season, which secured the title of World Rally Championship for Constructors, in addition to the drivers’ title that he already won to through the young Kalle Rovanperä in the previous rally. But the celebrations of Ogier, who reached the first place on the podium from which he had been away for a long time, did not please those responsible for the International Automobile Federation (FIA).
Evidently satisfied with this victory, the first in the last 12 months, Ogier decided to do two laps in the square that preceded the climb to the platform that marked the end of the rally. In the video that you can see below, you can see that, for the most part, the eight-time world champion of Rally France responded to the calls of the public, since, if the Catalans banned bullfighting, apparently they didn’t lose their taste for it. a good job. However, the organization of the event insisted on strictly applying the regulations and fined the driver €1,500.
Time to celebrate!! ???????????????#WRC @RallyRACC @TGR_WRC pic.twitter.com/tARZnP4ISS
— Sébastien Ogier (@SebOgier) October 23, 2022
A championship final race, which has the 13th and last rally of 2022 in Japan, on November 13, Kalle Rovanperä has won six races so far, which has allowed him to add 255 points, far from the 187 of the second classified , Ott Tanak, in a Hyundai. After this performance at just 22 years old, Rovanperä added the fact of being the youngest World Champion in history to the award that was already his, that of the youngest driver to win a WRC rally.
Among the manufacturers, Toyota claimed another world title (the sixth) with the Yaris Rally1, winning seven of the 12 rallies, with Hyundai taking four wins and Ford one. With a new constructors’ title, the Japanese manufacturer rose to third place in the ranking of the brands with the most championships won, only behind the historic Lancia and Citroën, who stopped competing in the World Cup for a long time major.
Source: Observadora
