The 2019 world champion has attracted controversy for impulsive stage-end feedback previously. On final yr’s Rally Latvia for instance, an inflatable arch collapsed in the course of a stage after Elfyn Evans spun off the street and took out its help cables, leaving Tänak to pile into it at full pace.
“An understandably sad Tänak commented at stage finish: “I believe this describes precisely how secure fingers we’re when it comes to race management. In all probability they had been having a pleasant meal and good wine when from the digital camera you could possibly see that street is blocked and automobile is coming. Effectively finished race management, you might be actually taking good care of us – good boys.
“We’re OK however f****** hell, in entrance of digital camera and you could possibly see that it’s blocked and you may see it’s operating. Hopefully it was a great wine.”
Tänak wryly recommended that altering from English to his mom tongue at stage ends is probably not sufficient to avoid the present guidelines censoring driver speech.
“Perhaps they’re going to translate Estonian as nicely and get one other nice from there,” he stated, “so it’s higher to not say something for the time being till we all know the place we stand.”
An FIA statement to DirtFish confirmed that Ronan Morgan, president of the Drivers Committee, Petter Solberg, vice chairman of the Committee and Emilia Abel, junior street sport director will maintain a dialogue with drivers after Safari Rally Kenya relating to the issues highlighted by Tänak and his fellow World Rally Drivers’ Alliance members.
