Ogier “writes off” chances of victory in Sardegna because of road order 🇮🇹
Six-times world rally champion and current championship leader, Sébastien Ogier, says his first-on-the-road positon on next week’s Rally Italia Sardegna, means victory on the event can be “more or less” written off from the start.
Talking ahead of the rally, the Citroën driver — and four-time winner of the event— Ogier said:
“Running first on the road in Sardinia means we can more or less write off our chances of winning from the word go, given how much the stages clean here. It looks like we won’t be getting any help to upset the odds from the weather, with no forecast for a repeat of the rain that fell last year. So I’m expecting a tough weekend but as ever, I’ll be giving it my absolute maximum, regardless of the circumstances, and we’ll see how many points we have at the end of the weekend. The C3 WRC has clearly progressed recently and I had a good feeling in Portugal. Our performance on day one will once again largely determine our overall result.”
Rally Italia Sardegna is the eighth round of the 2019 World Rally Champiosnhip and starts on 13 June.
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