US EditionRallying-Solberg wins Monte Carlo opener in Toyota podium sweep
Oliver Solberg became the youngest Monte Carlo Rally winner in the championship era as Toyota secured the top three positions, starting the season with a full podium sweep.
- On Jan 25, Oliver Solberg won the Monte Carlo Rally as champions Toyota recorded a one-two-three finish in the principality, with Elfyn Evans second and Sebastien Ogier third.
- After joining Toyota this season as a replacement for departed double champion Kalle Rovanpera, Solberg led by 59.3 seconds after Saturday on treacherously slushy, icy mountain roads north-east of the principality.
- Margins showed Evans and Ogier trailing Solberg as Evans finished 51.8 seconds behind and Ogier a minute and 10 seconds further back, while Solberg spun on an icy hairpin in the second of the final day's four stages without consequences.
- Evans meanwhile had a clear day and took more Sunday points than anyone, with Hyundai's Adrien Fourmaux fourth and Belgian teammate Thierry Neuville fifth after a puncture.
- Looking ahead, the next round is Solberg's home rally in Sweden, with Oliver Solberg, 24, saying, `This was the most difficult rally I've done in my life. It's my first rally on Tarmac in the car and here we are, winning the thing,` said Solberg.
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Between ice, wet asphalt and decisions to the limit, Oliver Solberg wrote this Sunday a historic page on world motorsports.On the roads of the Principality of Monaco, the young Swede challenged the most extreme conditions of the Rally to stay with a win that not only marked his career, but also broke a brand that had been intact for more than half a century. Oliver Solberg prevailed at Rally Monte-Carlo and became the youngest winner of the even…
The first round of the 2026 World Championship (WRC) was won this Sunday by 24-year-old Swede Oliver Solberg on a Toyota after 17 timed events.
Rallying-Solberg wins Monte Carlo opener in Toyota podium sweep
Jan 25 : Sweden's Oliver Solberg won the Monte Carlo Rally on Sunday as champions Toyota started the season with a one-two-three finish in the principality.The 24-year-old son of Norway's 2003 world champion Petter also became the youngest winner of the event in the championship era.Welsh teammate Elfy
Three Swedes have done it before in the World Rally Championship. Now Oliver Solberg is also on the blue-yellow list of winners in Monte Carlo. – It's so emotional, it's been so demanding and stressful, he says.
Oliver Solberg makes history. He is the first Swede in 55 years to win the Monte Carlo World Rally Championship and the youngest driver ever to win the classic rally.
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