Rally Estonia - 2nd Day - 1st Loop: Solberg puts an end to Pajari's domination with two stage wins, Evans gains three places

At the end of Saturday morning, Sami Pajari extended further his rally lead in Estonia with Oliver Solberg and Adrien Fourmaux following him.

Sami Pajari remains the rally leader in Estonia and was the fastest driver in SS8 and SS9 which means that he is now 14,1 seconds ahead of the second Oliver Solberg.

The Swede driver of Toyota holds the second position overall and was the only Rally1 driver who stopped Pajari's domination as he set the fastest time in Stage 10 and 11.

Adrien Fourmaux was not able to match Solberg's pace, thus he is still third overall, but now is 24,9 seconds behind Solberg. Moreover, the Frenchman reported at the end of Stage 11 that he suffered from a slow puncture on the final stage of the morning loop.

Thierry Neuville does the 3-4 for Hyundai Motorsport and found a greater pace with his i20N Rally1 compared to Friday where he was struggling with understeer. Also, he is just 5,6 seconds behind his teammate on the classification after the end of Saturday morning.

Sebastien Ogier keeps the fifth place at the overall classification and lost some seconds in Stage 9 as he went wide on a junction.

Elfyn Evans gained three places on Saturday morning and is now sixth overall. In fact, the Welshman moved up to seventh from ninth overall after Stage 8 while he passed Martins Sesks on the classficication after SS9.

Martins Sesks slipped behind Evans for 5,8 seconds at the end of Stage 9 as he got a front right puncture which means that he is now seventh.

Esapekka Lappi is still in eighth position overall, but he will fight with Sesks for the seventh place as their gap is at 5,6 seconds.

Jon Armstrong completes the top nine and is starting second on the road today.

Takamoto Katsuta restarted today under the SuperRally regulations today meaning that he was the driver who was cleaning the stages for the following drivers.

Josh McErlean stopped with mechanical issues for ten minutes as his Puma was misfiring for four kilometers. Eventually, he managed to get to the finish line of SS8, but he was forced to retire on the road section before the start of Stage 10 due to a damaged exhaust manifold.

Watch below the stage times:

Watch below the overall classification after SS11:

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Photo Credits: Toyota