
The championship runner-up for the past two seasons finished second behind Toyota team-mate for the third time in the last four WRC rounds at Rally Estonia last Sunday.
Evans had led the runaway WRC points leader until heavy rain arrived in Friday’s final stage. The Welshman admitted he had no answer to Rovanpera’s pace on Saturday, before ultimately finishing 1m00.9s adrift of his stablemate, who sealed a fifth win from seven WRC rounds.