Rally Estonia - 1st Day - 1st Loop: Fourmaux follows closely the Toyota duo as Pajari shines



At the end of Friday afternoon, Sami Pajari is leading Rally Estonia after three stages with Oliver Solberg and Adrien Fourmaux following him.

Sami Pajari puts Toyota out in front as the Finn was the dominant driver considering tha fact that he was the fastest driver in the first three stages of Friday.

Olive rSolberg does the 1-2 for Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT and is just 4,1 seconds behind his teammate Pajari.

Adrien Fourmaux is the highest-placed driver for Hyundai Motorsport as he sits in third position overall and comes right behind the second Solberg for 0,8 seconds. In fact, the Frenchman was ahead of Solberg at second place after SS1, but Solberg passed him after SS2 for 1,2 seconds.

Thierry Neuville follows his teammate Fourmaux for 6,2 seconds and was struggling with understeer on the first two stages of Rally Estonia. 

Sebastien Ogier slipped behind Neuville at the end of Stage 2 for 1,2 seconds while their gap is now at 3,5 seconds in favor of Neuville after SS3.

Josh McErlean stole the sixth place from Takamoto Katsuta after the end of Stage 3 and is ahead of the Toyota driver for 1,1 seconds.

Esapekka Lappi overtook Elfyn Evans for the eighth place at the end of Stage 3 as the Welshman was cleaning the stages once again. In fact, EP is just eight tenths of a second ahead of Evans with four stages remaining until the end of Friday.

Martins Sesks holds the tenth place and was the third-fastest driver in Stage 2 while he received a 20-second time penalty as his mechanics were working on his Puma and he left the service park with a two-minute delay.

Jon Armstrong is outside the top ten and is 11th as the Irishman got a front left puncture in Stage 1 while he was losing the rear of his car in Stage 3.                                                                                                                                                                                   

Watch below the stage times:






Watch below the overall classification after SS3:




Photo Credits: Toyota

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