The proper rally is a uncommon factor. Rarer nonetheless in Greece. The Acropolis is a rally run round rocks and curveballs. Getting the whole lot proper in Lamia final week was arguably the season’s longest shot.
It’s one Oliver Solberg took. And landed.
Ott Tänak’s win was lauded because the drive of the rally (our personal Colin Clark proffered the Estonian a rare 10/10 in his ratings). Solberg’s was simply nearly as good and, dare I say it, doubtlessly even a bit of bit higher.
The 23-year-old Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 driver sought and secured one thing virtually inconceivable to identify in Greece: the move state. The Acropolis has so many aspects to it, be it the warmth, the terrain, the tire put on, the rhythm change each from high-to-low pace and from tough to insanely tough. It’s an occasion which throws the whole lot at a driver to knock them out of their stride.
From the beginning, Solberg was a person in management. He’d achieved his homework, his coaching and his testing forward of the occasion and, whereas most others round him else spent Thursday morning staring skywards and worrying about how scorching it was getting.
“I sat within the sauna,” he mentioned. “A bit little bit of sweat by no means killed anyone.”
This wasn’t Solberg being over-confident or immodest, it was simply his approach of claiming he lives to drive rally vehicles, anytime, anyplace, anyplace. And the temperature being turned up a notch or two wasn’t going to face in the way in which of him having a ball doing what he does finest.
