The previous Seat and Ford driver is a part of a Toyota crew which have already gained the Producers’ World Championship for the fifth yr in a row.
And as so typically occurs in motorsport, Evans’ team-mates are additionally his closest rivals.
Rovanpera is the youngest ever world champion after profitable back-to-back championships in 2022 and 2023.
Now 25 and in his remaining season earlier than leaving WRC for brand new challenges, the Finnish driver has already gained three rallies this yr and can be able to pounce on any errors from his team-mate.
Ogier, 41, is trying to tie Sebastien Loeb’s file of 9 WRC titles. The Frenchman has gained 5 rallies this season and led the championship earlier than a crash finally month’s Central European Rally handed the benefit again to the Welshman.
Regardless of the competitors, Evans says relationships are good.
“All of us get on pretty properly within the crew,” he defined.
“Rallying is sort of distinctive in that we’re racing in opposition to the clock quite than bodily in opposition to one another on monitor.
“That usually means we get on a bit higher within the background and the crew has an excellent environment on the entire.
“All the pieces is shared among the many drivers, so the whole lot could be very open and we are inclined to try to race it out on the phases, so usually we get on fairly properly.”
Evans has been competing in opposition to the perfect of the perfect for years. If he is ready to be part of his team-mates as a world champion the achievement can be monumental.
Fourteen years after his first WRC race he’s as shut as he has ever been to glory.
Evans can be hoping a journey that began in Dolgellau might have the best of endings in Jeddah through Japan.
