US EditionEvans Wins Rally Sweden to Top Championship Standings
Evans leads WRC with a 13-point advantage after his third Rally Sweden win as Toyota achieves first back-to-back podium lockout since 2010, extending manufacturers' lead.
- On Sunday, Welshman Elfyn Evans clinched victory at Rally Sweden for the third time, lifting him to the top of the early championship table.
- Rally Sweden, the WRC's only snow round, was the second event of a 14-round calendar shaping early standings.
- Toyota became the first manufacturer since Citroen to record back-to-back podium lockouts and hold a 51-point advantage over Hyundai, with Sami Pajari finishing third.
- Those placings left Hyundai drivers Adrien Fourmaux and Thierry Neuville well behind Toyota, which now holds a 51-point lead in the manufacturers' championship.
- Next month the championship heads to Kenya for the Safari Rally, with radically different conditions, while Monte Carlo winner Oliver Solberg finished fourth in Sweden.
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The Welshman Elfyn Evans won the Swedish Rally for the third time in a Toyota Yaris and also took the lead in the World Cup classification!In the only World Cup event on snow Evans had dominated six years ago and last season.The Japanese Takamoto Katsuta and the Finn Sami Pajari made for a podium with exclusively Toyota drivers on Sunday.The Swede Oliver Solberg even completed a quadrupling victory.
Welshman Elfyn Evans (Toyota) is the winner of the Rally Sweden, the second stop of the 2026 World Championship season. He beat teammate Takamoto Katsuta of Japan for his first victory of the season, while Finnish driver Sami Pajari completed Toyota's success with third place.
Elfyn Evans has won the Swedish Rally on Sunday, leading the World Rally Championship after two rounds.
At the second round of the World Rally Championship season in Sweden, the Toyota team earned a four-way victory. Elfyn Evans took first place, collecting 29 points and taking the lead in the World Rally Championship.
Oliver Solberg did not have a great success in the Swedish Rally. The 24-year-old had to settle for fourth place. For the second year in a row, Elfyn Evans won instead.
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