In the World Rally Championship, the regulations, everyone’s programs and the points scales change but the same scenario returns at regular intervals. In the end, Elfyn Evans and Thierry Neuville made too many mistakes and Sébastien Ogier won. This was again the case in Croatia this weekend. Slightly left behind, on Sunday morning, by the two contenders for the title this season, the freelancer with eight world crowns nevertheless left Zagreb as the winner. A 59th victory and a 100th podium on his record. A very round number, which he is the second to reach after Sébastien Loeb (120) and which gave him a huge smile at the finish. “It makes me proud and with age,” said the recent forty-year-old, “it’s the kind of thing that I appreciate more and more. »
