Ott Tanak has explained the crash he described as a “proper disaster” that handed team-mate Thierry Neuville the World Rally Championship crown and dented Hyundai’s manufacturers’ title bid. Tanak started Sunday with a commanding 38 second rally lead over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans but his Rally Japan victory bid unravelled in the most spectacular fashion on stage 17.

Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe are the 2024 WRC Champions! The opening stage of the final day of WRC Forum8

The battle for this year’s FIA World Rally Championship title is set to go to the wire as Hyundai Motorsport’s Ott Tanak leads Rally Japan overnight, with teammate and WRC points leader Thierry

Ott Tanak has dramatically crashed out of the lead of Rally Japan which has handed Thierry Neuville the World Rally Championship and swung the manufacturers title battle towards Toyota. Tanak started Sunday with a 38 second rally lead over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans which he needed to maintain to keep his WRC title hopes alive.

First appearing in WRC in 2009 Thierry Neuville lead the 2024 championship from start to finish Neuville, 36, started the final rally of the 13-race series with a 25-point lead over Tanak, so he needed to score just six points from the weekend to claim the ...

Ott Tanak and Martin Järveoja completed Saturday’s six stages with a healthy 36 second lead over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans and

Hyundai's Thierry Neuville secured his first world rally championship in Japan on Sunday as Toyota sealed the manufacturers' crown.

Ott Tänak remains in the lead of the season-closing Rally Japan after its first full day of stages, meaning his title bid is still a possibility, after Hyundai teammate Thierry Neuville struggled.

Rally Japan 4 Update

Championship leader Neuville produced an impressive fightback to haul himself from 15th to seventh to provisionally pick up four of the six points needed for a maiden world title