Rovanpera jr fastest at shakedown of WRC Rally Saudi Arabia 2025

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It is the final event of 2025 World Rally Championship season and the finale is being held at gravel of Saudi Arabia where roads are some kind of a mix of Acropolis Rally Greece and Safari Rally Kenya, dusty and rocky. The clever point is to be fast and smart, and not just fast because there is a big chance to destroy something from the car on numerous rocks which lay on the gravel roads in front of the drivers.

Shakedown is over for WRC1 crews and Kalle Rovanpera posted the fastest time in front of his two Toyota team mates - Takamoto Katsuta and Championship leader Elfyn Evans. Adrien Fourmaux was fastest Hyundai driver in 4th place in front of his tram mate and 2019 WRC champion Ott Tanak.

We must say that there are three drivers battling for the title - Championship leader Elfyn Evans, eight-time WRC champion Seb Ogier and two times champion Kalle Rovanpera.

Evans and Ogier are separated by only three points and Rovanpera jr is 23 (or 24) behind the leader which is a lot, but mathematically he is still in the game.

Rally starts this evening with the super special stage. Let the best win - as always...

Full stage video:
https://www.youtube.com/live/t4awk0ExqFw?si=uuH5awr1tfB6NwXP

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