The previous Seat and Ford driver is a part of a Toyota crew which have already gained the Producers’ World Championship for the fifth yr in a row.
And as so typically occurs in motorsport, Evans’ team-mates are additionally his closest rivals.
Rovanpera is the youngest ever world champion after successful back-to-back championships in 2022 and 2023.
Now 25 and in his remaining season earlier than leaving WRC for brand new challenges, the Finnish driver has already gained three rallies this yr and will probably be able to pounce on any errors from his team-mate.
Ogier, 41, is seeking to tie Sebastien Loeb’s document of 9 WRC titles. The Frenchman has gained 5 rallies this season and led the championship earlier than a crash eventually month’s Central European Rally handed the benefit again to the Welshman.
Regardless of the competitors, Evans says relationships are good.
“All of us get on pretty properly within the crew,” he defined.
“Rallying is kind of distinctive in that we’re racing in opposition to the clock quite than bodily in opposition to one another on monitor.
“That usually means we get on a bit higher within the background and the crew has an excellent ambiance on the entire.
“The whole lot is shared among the many drivers, so every part may be very open and we are inclined to attempt to race it out on the levels, so usually we get on fairly properly.”
Evans has been competing in opposition to the most effective of the most effective for years. If he is ready to be a part of his team-mates as a world champion the achievement will probably be monumental.
Fourteen years after his first WRC race he’s as shut as he has ever been to glory.
Evans will probably be hoping a journey that began in Dolgellau might have the best of endings in Jeddah by way of Japan.
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