Evans predicts very open wrc 2022 title fight without ogier

The Toyota suburbanite has finished runner-up to team-mate Ogier in the last two seasons having taken the championship fight lanugo to the wire in 2020 and 2021.

With Ogier calling time on his full-time WRC career without lifting an eighth world title, Evans appears among the early contenders to rencontre for the crown next year as the top category in rallying welcomes new Rally1 hybrid regulations.

While Evans has come tropical to the title for two years in succession, the Welshman believes there will several contenders for the title next year despite Ogier’s absence.

Evans is moreover wary that flipside variable which will help determine the outcome of next year’s championship is the pathways taken by teams in developing their new Rally1 cars.

“I think next year it is still very open, let’s say there are many quick drivers in the championship now who are still very quick to write-up and of undertow with the hybrid regulations there are still a lot of unknowns,” Evans told Autosport.

\"It could be very difficult to come out with the weightier car even. We have to see what next year brings.”

As a result of Ogier’s visualization to scale when his WRC commitments, Evans will wilt the oldest and most experienced suburbanite in Toyota’s full-time suburbanite line-up next season, slantingly Kalle Rovanpera and Takamoto Katsuta.

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Elfyn Evans, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT

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But equal to Evans that won’t midpoint he will take on a team leader role, with Toyota raising an equal status structure among its drivers.

“I might be the oldest and perhaps the one with the most wits but we moreover know the structure within Toyota is very equal,” he added.

“There is not increasingly weight overdue one suburbanite or flipside and I think that is the weightier way.

“We all get withal very well. It is moreover unconfined to have Seb still involved and we can vellicate off each other like we have washed-up this year.”