At the end of Friday morning, Elfyn Evans becomes the new leader of Rally Sweden with Takamoto Katsuta and Sami Pajari following him.
Elfyn Evans stole the lead of Oliver Solberg at the end of Stage 2 and showed a dominant performance by setting the fastest time in Stage 2 and 3.
Takamoto Katsuta moved up to second position overall despite his going off the road 18,3Km into Stage 3. In fact, he was third for 0,9 seconds behind Solberg at the end of Stage 2.
Sami Pajari does the 1-2-3 for Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT and stayed out of trouble through Friday morning.
Esapekka Lappi managed to overtake his teammates at the end of Stage 3 and keeps the fourth position while he is the best driver for Hyundai Motorsport despite the fact that there has been two years since his last outing in WRC.
Oliver Solberg dropped from second to sixth overall at the end of Stage 3 as he had two moments there. In fact, the Swede driver lost the rear of his car and went off the road, but he managed to continue despite the fact that he picked up a front right puncture. After one kilometer from this incident, Solberg went off the road again, but he was able to get to the finish line. Moreover, he had a half spin and stalled his Yaris on the opening stage of the day. He finished Friday morning at fifth place overall as he was the fastest driver in Stage 4.
Adrien Fourmaux comes right behind Solberg for only one tenth of a second and lost his fifth position over the Toyota driver at the end of Stage 4.
Thierry Neuville lost three places and more than one minute in Stage 3 as he lost the rear of his i20N abnd went into a snowback 18,3 Km into SS3. He picked up a front left puncture after this incident, but he managed to steal the seventh place from Armstrong at the end of Stage 4.
Jon Armstrong is in eighth position overall and suffered from a front right puncture just six kilometers before the end of Stage 2.
Josh McErlean does the 8-9 for M-Sport Ford and suffered from a rear double puncture in Stage 3.
Martins Sesks and Lorenzo Bertelli are outside the top ten.
Sesks changed two front punctures in Stage 2 and dropped more than seven minutes there. However, he had another front left puncture in Stage 3. He managed to complete Stage 4 by using the two delaminated tyres from Stage 2, but he got another rear right puncture in Stage 4.
Bertelli drove on road mode in Stage 2 while he had a spin in Stage 3. Furthermore, he checked two minutes late at the start control of Stage 3 resulting in receiving a 20-second time penalty.
Watch below the stage times:
Watch below the overall classification after Stage 4:
Photo Credits: Toyota
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