Rally Germany proved to be the closest battle in RDRC history, with just one tenth separating the first and second placed drivers after 16 stages. But that is history now that we move to Wales and the season finale. No championship is decided yet, there are still a fight for the overall title, as well as the three separate class titles and the team championship when we arrive to the rally with the most amount of stages, and the fewest amount of services of all rallies this season!
As already mentioned, the fight for the overall win in Germany was intense and insane, with Simon Novak and Nic Worsfold swapping places throughout all three days, and after over 110km, 3 days and 16 stages, it was just 0.132 seconds that separated them, with Nic Worsfold managing to be the fastest guy in his Lancia Delta S4, and leaving Simon Novak with the slightly bitter tasting 2nd place in Germany. None of these drivers will have any chance of taking home the title however, as the battle is between Jon Joannides and Cristoforos Karaolis, 48 points are separating the two, but with 100 points to the winner and 50 points for finishing 5th, anything can happen.
In the 4WD- class, Miguel Figueiredo took his second class win of the year ahead of Thomas Lambaerts and Lutz Mueller. However, it is Thomas Mueller that leads the championship in the class, 36 points ahead of Figueiredo with Diogo Souto 48 points behind and Ethan O'Hagan who had to miss Germany 58 points behind. All four of them can potentially win the title in the class, and this is the class where we think there will be the most fluctuation throughout the rally as well.
2WD+, the class for the powerful 2WD cars, saw Tommie Lindberg taking his second win of the year, and taking a firm grip on the title. After Andreas Norström joined the series in Sweden, he have won every single rally, but he had a poor rally in Germany, and lost quite a lot to Lindberg, and he is now 84 points behind in the championship. Lindberg needs to make a huge mistake in Wales to lose this now. Rally Germany also saw Jarod Sebeibit-Ponsard and Jack Hintz taking their first podiums of the year, but both are far behind in the championship.
In the 2WD- class Ismail Yakubu took his second win of the season, stretching his lead up to 80 points on Krister Johansson, to add to this, Yakubu have not been worse than 2nd in any rally so far this season, and while it is possible to lose the title right at the end. That looks like it will take some extreme conditions and situations to happen. Also in this class the rest of the podium was filled newcomers, David Monks being third, and RDRC-Debutant Kari Koivuranta ending second.
Before Rally Wales, we have also announced a rule in case of a dead-heat in the championship standings, read the Magazine or the Directors Note thread for more information.
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Download the Wales Edition of the RDRC Rally Magazine here (17.4mb)
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