“He has the pressure on his shoulders.” Psychological games are already being played before the big state rally championship finale on Saturday and Sunday in the Buckligen Welt in Lower Austria. Hermann Neubauer, champion in 2016 and 2019, assigns the role of favorite to Mühlviertler Simon Wagner, who is five points ahead of his Skoda brand colleague. Wagner, defending champion and also 2021 champion, counters before the twelve special stages: “If he gets his nerves under control, it will be a really exciting duel.”
Both exceptional drivers took two victories over the course of the season and have often had remarkable duels for seconds in the past, now the final decision will be made around Krumbach. Neither of them wants to get involved in calculation games, even if each driver has a canceled result (the worst result of the season is eliminated). “We want to figure it all out in the car on the track,” says Wagner from Unterweitersdorf, who drives a Skoda Fabia RS Rally2.
A surprisingly prominent name added to the start list, World Cup driver Teemu Suninen from Finland, who is sent to Lower Austria by the Hyundai factory team for test kilometers, is not allowed to tip the scales. He is not eligible to score points for the championship, as the Austrian Motorsport Federation announced. At the January rally, things were different for Frenchman Adrien Fourmaux, who won in the winter.
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