The FIA World Rally Championship visited Estonia for the first time last weekend as the championship blasted back into life following lockdown. Driver of the Rally There were few dissenting souls pre-rally willing to argue that anyone other than Ott Tänak was going to win in Estonia. And, after a zero score following a massive crash in the opening round in Monte-Carlo, Tänak could not afford any more slips-ups in this truncated season. The Toyota Yaris man led after two stages, becoming the youngest driver ever to sit at atop a WRC event, but on the following Kanepi test a puncture blunted his challenge. Almost 30sec disappeared, Tänak was in front and another stage later the gap to the next non-Hyundai driver was up to 12sec.

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