Rossel resumes WRC2 title bid in Croatia

The 28-year-old has been out of competitors since January when he gained the season-opening Rallye Monte-Carlo, accumulating most Wolf Energy Stage bonus factors within the course of.

Regardless of his absence, nonetheless, Rossel holds sturdy in second place within the general championship standings. And, with sequence chief Oliver Solberg electing to not rating factors at spherical 4, a strong end result may elevate the Citroën C3 Rally2 driver again into the highest spot.

Behind Rossel within the talent-packed 19-car entry record stands a trio of Toksport-prepared Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 Evos. Fielding these are reigning champion Emil Lindholm, who sits on an similar rating with Rossel going into this rally, Mexico winner Gus Greensmith, and Nikolay Gryazin – who has a rating to settle, having missed out on the Monte-Carlo victory by simply five- tenths of a second.

M-Sport Ford will run a pair of Fiesta Rally2s for hard-charging kids Adrien Fourmaux and Grégoire Munster, whereas Finnish challenger Sami Pajari additionally drives for the Toksport outfit. Erik Cais, who hails from the Czech Republic, is one other one to look at in his privately entered Fabia.

Estonia’s Georg Linnamäe will begin his second WRC spherical of the season aboard a Hyundai i20 N Rally2, whereas Nicolas Ciamin completes the main 10 entries in a Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 – the Frenchman again within the WRC for the primary time since 2021.

Different entries embrace Hyundai driver Josh McErlean, who groups up with WRC debutant Patrick O’Brien to kind a two-car Motorsport Eire Rally Academy workforce, plus FIA European Rally Championship common Norbert Herczig.

Armin Kremer heads the WRC Masters Cup contingent in a brand new Škoda. He’ll face rivals together with Mauro Miele, Johannes Keferböck and Eamonn Boland.