At the end of Sunday, Oliver Solberg is the winner of this year's Rally Sardinia with Sebastien Ogier and Sami Pajari following him while Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin take their maiden title in World Rally Championship.
Oliver Solberg claimed the win at Rally Sardinia and set the fastest time in Stage 14 resulting in building a safety net around the SuperSunday standings as he was leading the classification in the first three stages today, but he scored the four bonus points. In fact, Solberg was faster than Evans on the splits of Powerstage, but he went off the road just two corners before the end of PS and managed to get going again.
Sebastien Ogier remained second overall on the classification and his target was to finish Rally Sardinia. For this reason, the Frenchman did not push and did not score so many points today while it is uncertain if we will see him at Rallye Monte Carlo 2027.
Sami Pajari does the 1-2-3 for Toyota Gazoo Racing and was the fastest driver in Stage 16, but still he was not able to reduce his SuperSunday gap from the first Solberg after the end of SS16. Furthermore, there were reports coming in that he had a slow puncture on the rear right after the end of SS14.
Adrien Fourmaux finished as the highest-placed driver for Hyundai Motorsport at fourth overall. Unfortunately, the two punctures on Saturday costed him a solid finish of the season and the most important is that he did not score a win at Rally1 era.
Elfyn Evans managed to keep his fifth position as he lost more than two minutes in Stage 16 when he stopped to change a front right puncture. This had an impact to his SuperSunday charge as he score zero points. Last but not least, it must be mentioned that Evans started the Powerstage with one-point advantage over his teammate Solberg, but he was able to stay out of trouble in Powerstage, thus he is the 2026 WRC Champion and the first British driver who won the championship since Richard Burns back in 2001.
Takamoto Katsuta is in sixth position overall and finished behind Evans for more than one minute as their gap was more than three minutes in favor of Evans after the end of Stage 15.
Jon Armstrong completed his first full season with M-Sport Ford with the seventh place at Rally Sardinia and was the best driver for the Cumbrian-based team after Josh McErlean's retirement on the road section after the final Saturday stage.
Thierry Neuville, Josh McErlean and Martins Sesks restarted under the SuperRally regulations today and finished outside the top 10.
Neuville set the fastest time in Stages 15 and 17 meaning that he collected five points in Powerstage.
McElrean completed Stage 14 after 24 minutes as he stopped twice due to the fact that there was smoke in the cabin. In fact, he pulled over the second time as he did not want to involve on the title fight between Evans, Solberg and Pajari.
Dani Sordo was forced to retire from the rest of Rally Sardinia as the Spaniard suffered from pain in his side and back.
Watch below the stage times:
Watch below the overall classification after Rally Sardinia 2026:
Photo Credits: Toyota
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