Ogier and Tänak clarify WRC Paraguay journey scare – DirtFish

World Rally champions Sébastien Ogier and Ott Tänak arrived in Encarnación with simply hours to spare earlier than the beginning of Tuesday’s recce for Rally del Paraguay, following disruption to their journey plans.

They have been scheduled to fly out of Frankfurt on Sunday, arriving a day forward of the recce for this week’s World Rally Championship qualifier. When their authentic flight was cancelled, they have been compelled to fly a day later, finishing the journey by personal jet from Buenos Aires and arriving into the resort within the early hours of Tuesday.

Ogier, who was joined by co-driver Vincent Landais on the journey, informed DirtFish: “I always fly last minute because, like everybody knows, I want to optimize time at home with my family. We had a bit of a delay, but still we managed it on time and we arrived here just before the recce, so maybe I actually made the perfect plan!

“The jet lag is not so bad here, so it’s OK. The preparations are good. From what we’ve seen so far, this one is going to be a challenge for sure. Watching some videos before coming here, it looked like a bit of a boring rally with a lot of straights and junctions. Still some sections are a bit like this, but actually there’s still a lot of difficulties and I think more in the vertical – we have to estimate all of these bumps, how can we take them, which speed and which approach.”