{"id":194174,"date":"2025-03-21T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-toyotas-evans-takes-charge-of-gruelling-day-2-wrc-safari-rally\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:06:38","slug":"kenya-toyotas-evans-takes-charge-of-gruelling-day-2-wrc-safari-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-toyotas-evans-takes-charge-of-gruelling-day-2-wrc-safari-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Toyota&#8217;s Evans Takes Charge of Gruelling Day 2 WRC Safari Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Naivasha \u2014 <em>Toyota Gazoo racing team driver Elfyn Evans stormed to a 7.7 seconds Day 2 lead at the 2025 WRC Safari Rally ahead of champion and team-mate Kale Rovanpera as Hyundai&#8217;s Ott Tanak completed the podium.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Day 2 saw drivers take on a total of 8 brutal stages, a 32.20km at newly introduced Camp Moran stage, Loldia&#8217;s 19.11km, Geothermal&#8217;s 13.12km and Kedong&#8217;s 15.10km that were repeated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Evans, who is currently the overall WRC championship leader said it was a tough day and he is looking&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210524.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naivasha \u2014 Toyota Gazoo racing team driver Elfyn Evans stormed to a 7.7 seconds Day 2 lead at the 2025 WRC Safari Rally ahead of champion and team-mate Kale Rovanpera as Hyundai&#8217;s Ott Tanak completed the podium. Day 2 saw drivers take on a total of 8 brutal stages, a 32.20km at newly introduced Camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":194175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,5211,7165,19741,15458,4688,430,257,8976,13988,254,5056,39950,19271],"class_list":["post-194174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charge","tag-day","tag-evans","tag-gruelling","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-rally","tag-safari","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes","tag-toyotas","tag-wrc"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}