Pajari five stages from third straight WRC win at Rally Paraguay

Sami Pajari carried a 24.1-second lead into the final day of Rally Paraguay, five stages from a third consecutive WRC victory. The 2024 WRC 2 champion took his breakthrough top-flight win at Rally Estonia in July, then won on home Finnish roads. Elfyn Evans led the championship by 30 points from Pajari's Toyota team-mate entering the rally.