The maximum attack with Elfyn Evans | Hydrogen number footnote

I think most of the car journalists, including me, we will be drivers in racing almost supernatural given the time and money to do this correctly. The sounds seem to be proud, but racing cars are easy to drive by nature, the difficult decisions are to find that tenth or two that only separate good. Obviously, there is no way in which I can jump into the Formula 1 or a preliminary model in Formula 1 and I am quickly like positives, or even amateurs – but can I put a few rolls without embarrassing myself completely? I definitely hope so.

Yes, I got the ego the race driver damed T, but I know my borders. Put on a motorcycle, for example, and there is no way I will go faster than walking. Exactly how Motogp or TT a lot extinguishes their brain part, which says, “This is a little dangerous, right? The other “I cannot do it” is the gathering, for similar reasons. Certainly, the cars are safer these days and not completely blind, but with the fact that competition is the closest to the years, the margin of error has been completely eroded.

Then there are the cars themselves. In 2017, new rules were presented to increase the pace and drama of the rally machines, and actually began in the era of the modern group B. The cars grew wider and spread the complex wings and exposed to keeping them cultivated in the ridiculous speeds that will be driven through the forests, between snow girls and the side of the edges of the abyss. After that, in 2022, other rules abandoned their road car origins in the name of improvement in safety. So, while today’s machines look like Ford Puma, Hyundai i20 N or Toyota Gr Yaris, in fact they are a gastro -sphereal -like spoile image that was named after it – just like Lancia Delta S4, Metro R64 and Peugeot 205 T16.

The tremors operations have also worked, at least in terms of mixing competition. Sébastien Ogier, Ott Tänak, Kalle Rovanperä and Thierry Neuville won the World Championship titles in the last seven seasons, with Ford, Toyota and Hyundai in the spotlight. However, one driver finished second in four of the last five seasons, and got an inch of the title of 2020 before he was harshly denied by a treacherous ice angle in the conclusion of Monza. Toyota, Elfyn Evans has 11 wins in his name, and currently leads the WRC ranking for 2025, but with Ogier, Rovanperä and Tänak breathing down his neck in the middle of the road, hardly loses it. The angle of bad judgment, a stray rock, or even just running on the road, can enhance the entire demand during the weekend.

So, it is clear that the chance of rifting the gun with it over Goodwood Hill and around the gathering stage in the full WRC, was so good that it could not be rejected, although I thought it was wise to leave the chat for the championship to the appropriate journalists for cars, and instead, I used time to get to know the British Championship. Or so I thought. Come to the morning of running, Toyota engineers were gathering around the Ralle1 Silver machine, loaded with a feverish form of an issue that was not freedom to detect. Fortunately, the green light was given, I was installed in the second seat, which was usually occupied by the co -driver Scott Martin, and told me that the radio between me and the Elvin was not working. great.

Elephant jumps and immediately agrees on the cover of its crash at my feet. “Sorry, do you mind taking care of this for me?” So I spend the short flight between the Toyota tent and the rights of the ring in a helmet crashing a green and white plane decorated with the Red Wales of the Championship. I can’t do much, because Elfyn is very busy to revive the clusters tied with four cylinders (not the three production) to its borders of the crowds that gathered. “Is this the hybrid car?” Shout. Elfyn continues to tell me that it was so, but it is now used as a marketing car, so the battery has been removed, just like the current repetition of the WRC.

We get to the ring and jump Elfyn for fast chat with his colleague Sami Pajari. I remain closed in place like a small child in the car seat, unable to move and feel more than useful than I usually do. After a few minutes, Elfyn jumps again, notes that the cable of the helmet microphone is the wrong path and the threads exchange. Now in touch, I ask him how to compare the current cars with Yarises 2017, which sat much closer to its production counterparts. For my amazement, he says that he will take old cars on the current cars because they were lighter and more flexible, while admitting that he was unprecedented with hybrid (this is reflected in two seasons where he was far from the pace). He says he is better without batteries, as they are this year, but they still shy 1,200 kg, and they can feel a little bit.

The signal is given to go to the starting line and the engine is wasted in life. Only now after I noticed the keys on the participating driver’s kick board, one of which runs whispers and another to cut off the electricity. Maintaining my feet firmly in the center of the plate should be easy, but while we go down the hill to the starting line, the suffocating elfyn hangs, which, in full stones, raises the nose, before we get to the brakes and bring the nose towards the airport. At the same time, it is woven to the left and right to generate some tire heat. If this looks like a recipe for a car disease, then it is. A good thing I do not have movement and consider myself an easy passenger, but the gyroscopic movement of constant acceleration, braking and weaving was very uncomfortable. Fortunately, our operation was very early, I haven’t eaten breakfast yet, otherwise I had committed a correct chaos from inside our championship full of championship.

Frequently the fast handbraft in the place where you are no longer allowed to do this anymore (the thing that everyone surrounds) and we are waiting for our movement in the hill. While I collect myself, I ask Elfyn about what the path appears to be in WRC. The circuit race usually includes years of karting before progressing through mono -seat stairs, GT or the initial model. But the gathering? “I always tell people to gather, you really have to gather,” says Eline, with a smile on his face. “Some people just want to enter the lifestyle,” he added. But the ladder is far from Barah, explaining how he competed in the individual National Rally before entering the Fiesta Sport Cup (a copy of the gathering version, which was his victory in the first stage in Fiesta RS WRC in 2017, before moving to his current home in Toyota in 2020.

Our chat was quickly boycotted by Rally2 GR Yaris heading in the jogging over the hill. As we approach the starting line, Elfyn directs a tablet on the wheel, and “Race 1” appears on the small LED and jumping immediately to high inactivity. We are ready to start. The light turns green, and Elfyn climbs Rally to start gathering, and after we go. The nose rises again, hung me on the back of my seat. The acceleration is amazing as Elfyn pulled the serial transmission to the right of the steering wheel to get other equipment. Then another. And another.

One washable, a relatively narrow right line that opens in a small straight, arrives and gets the nose early, and the weight turns to the left side while it comes out a large part of the turn from the inside. Then we are in full view of goodwood House, which can only mean one thing: cakes. Elfyn Yanks The cabin is filled with tire smoke and the smell of burning rubber, and made a mistake in looking at the side window, which immediately throws you from the balance. Note for the self: Look forward directly to the cakes. Then we do another 720 (or perhaps 1440?) At the top of the hill, which is directed by Elfyn without trouble to complete the running. The remainder of the righteousness does not feel very quickly like the start, but it is rare for the assembly cars in an open or straight environment like Goodwood Hill.

Moreover, we were prepared for the forest rally, which was the next on the agenda. After crossing the line, Elfyn was exposed to more cakes to the crowd at the top of the hill, then I got out of the right stage to attend the Rally Paddock. A quick stop in the service area, where the head of the Toyota World Rally Team Jari-Matti Latvala team was preparing to run in the Celica ST185 WRC full of disbelief, and we have returned to the second stage. Ask Elfyn if it will give it beans now after he woke up a little. Laughs, but he admits that he is not interested in preparing times. “It is a technical stage with a very chalk surface,” he says. “It is almost impossible to wet, but even in dehydration, it is incredibly slippery.”

Can he deceive me. We fly off the line and immediately take blind, sharp and get the depths of the forest stage. He was not joking when he said he was technical, with the edges of high dirt and endless curves, all of which were aimed at capturing the best. Meanwhile, Elfin is not limited to cutting the summit: he devours them, jumps on the banks of dirt as if there was no. Here, Rallly1 Yaris feels madly and faster than anything you went through (and you were on the hill in Aston Martin Valhalla the day before), to the point I felt almost in the cycle. How Elfyn took out the other party, with the commitment he carried at every angle, just showing the talent of talented drivers.

And it is also difficult. You are thinking about all this travel in the comment that “Yaris” slips across the stage like Aladdin’s magic carpet. no. It is completely brutal, shocks that hesitate across the body and seat as we swire rocks and drilling. Nothing, however, can prepare me to jump at the end of the theater. Not all this looks bad on the video, but in the cockpit it is positively violent. All your organs begin to float in your body while taking off, screaming the engine with the utmost time, which I imagine that astronauts feel running in space for the first time. After that, when re -entering, the car returns to the ground, the strength of your ass is absorbed and the spine. It is very unpleasant, but at the same time, of course, epic.

Pump adrenaline, cross the line and go back to the service area. I shook Elfyn’s hand and thank you for one of them on a trip, before allowing another journalist to turn in the hot seat. The hats to Scott participating in Elfin, who must bear a four -day penalty 14 times a year, with some stages take up to 30 minutes to complete, all while reading the notes. Elfyn is clearly a suitable talent, and a beautiful separation in it, as with many people. There are none of the games you find, for example, formula 1, nor any of vanity, too. I do not get the impression that it is in glory, and certainly not for fame; It is the best in one of the most challenging sports in the world. Therefore, I am in terror, just as I was watching Richard Burns, he won Britain at the last title of WRC in 2001. Hoping that Elfyn will join the list that comes at the end of Saudi Arabia in late November. The gathering, you just have to love it.