Seska crew tenth place in WRC Portuguese Rally Fifth Special Stage / Day
The Seska crew, which starts with the Ford Puma Rally1, prepared by the M-Sport Ford during this WRC season, made a 14.41-kilometer stage in nine minutes and 7.8 seconds.
In the fifth stage, Frenchman Adrian Furmo (« Hyundai Shell Mobis »), who won the second stage in a row and finished in eight minutes and 55.8 seconds.
Second place was taken by Japanese Takahumo Katuta (« Toyota Gazoo »), who was 0.9 seconds behind Furmo and Frenchman Sebastien Ogey (« Toyota Gazoo »), who defeated the winner for 1.7 seconds.
Latvian crew Furmo lost 12 seconds.
The leader of the stage after five stages is Estonian Ots Tenaks (« Hyundai Shell Mobis »), who overtakes Furmo by 0.2 seconds and 7.4 seconds in Ogeier. The Latvian crew is four minutes and 14.8 seconds behind the leader.
It has already been reported that in the second stage, the Latvian crew pierced the tire at the beginning of the distance and was more than three minutes behind the best result.
Ten stages are taking place on Friday, on Saturday, crews will run one sprint and six stages, but on Sunday there will be six more stages. On Saturday, the stages will start at 9.35 and on Sunday at 8.43, with live competitions on Go3 Sport 1.
After four rounds, Toyota Gazoo’s British pilot Elfin Evans is in the lead with 109 points, 66 points for Finn Kallem Rovanperem (Toyota Gazoo) and 59 points for Belgian Trier Neville (Hyundai Shell Mobis). Seska ranks tenth with eight points.
For the Latvian crew, this is the second of six stages scheduled for this season. In the second stage of the WRC, the Latvian crew finished in sixth place in the Swedish rally.
Seska’s crew debuted the WRC last season, starting in three stages. In the Polish rally, Latvians were fifth, in the first stage of the WRC in Latvia in July – seventh, losing his place on the podium in the last stage, but in the Chilean rally after the emergency, the race was continued for training purposes.
There are 14 stages in the WRC season 2025, with motor racing players competing in Estonia in mid -July.
Last season, Belgian Tieri Neville became the champion.
