How Monza's lottery winner matched a 27-year-old record
Fourth place was all that Elfyn Evans needed to become Britain's first WRC champion since 2001, but his hopes were dashed in the freak weather at Rally Monza which opened the door for his Toyota team-mate Sebastien Ogier to take the spoils
The 2020 World Rally Championship ended in heartbreak for Britain's Elfyn Evans as his 14-point advantage in the drivers' title race was whisked out from beneath him by a patch of Italian snow. Thus Sebastien Ogier claimed his seventh WRC title as Rally Monza joined the calendar for the first time.
Tensions were high when the trucks unloaded in the historic royal park and there were suggestions that some teams were rather less willing to be there than others. Event organisers had insisted that the itinerary would be fully compliant with the COVID legislation in place at the time, but it was sobering to know that Italy had suffered its most grievous toll of the pandemic so far on the opening day of the rally, with 993 lives lost.
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