Motorsport News  |  23rd August 2017
TANAK LANDS DREAM RESULT FOR M-SPORT
Deep inside the M-Sport World Rally Team command centre, there’s a drivers’ room. It was in there around 1500hrs last Friday afternoon when Ott Tanak sealed his first World Rally Championship win on asphalt. Going into that room, the Estonian was 4.1 seconds behind leader Andreas Mikkelsen and 1.5s ahead of fellow Ford Fiesta WRC driver Sebastien Ogier. Three stages later Tanak was out front, 5.7s up on Mikkelsen. Ogier was almost half a minute down having spent twenty seconds off the road. Two days later and celebrating his second win in four rallies, following his maiden victory in Sardinia, and
Tanak pointed to that room on Friday afternoon.
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