Sebastien Ogier clinches WRC title with Monza win

Winners French driver Sebastien Ogier and his co-driver Julien Ingrassia (L) pose with Toyota team principal Tommi Makinen of Finland after the FIA World Rally Championship at the Autodromo Nazionale circuit in Monza on December 6, 2020. Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images

As French driver Sebastien Ogier (Toyota Yaris WRC) celebrated a seventh World Rally Championship title courtesy of winning the ACI Rally Monza, there was heartbreak for his Welsh teammate Elfyn Evans, who slid his car off the road in icy conditions during Saturday’s second leg in northern Italy. 

Evans was on course to claim a maiden title but made an uncustomary error that saw his Toyota Yaris WRC slip down a bank. In a superb sporting gesture he ran back the road to warn Ogier of the danger.