Paris –
The only certainty about this year’s World Rally Championship, which reaches its conclusion in Japan this weekend, is that a Hyundai driver will take the title, but whether that is Thierry Neuville or Ott Tanak remains to be seen.
The bespectacled Belgian Neuville is the favorite as he holds a 25-point lead going into this final leg. He won the opening race of the season in Monte Carlo and the Acropolis Rally in Greece and has picked up four other podium finishes along the way.
„It is one of my preferred rallies and one we won two years ago,“ Neuville said at last week’s official welcome.