Rally Italy-Sardinia 2018
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Suninen (M-Sport Ford) and Mikkelsen (Hyundai) set the 6th and 3rd times of SS11.
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Sébastien Ogier (M-Sport Ford) performed well on this SS11 of the Rally Italy – Sardinia by setting the provisional best time in 16'38″9. The Frenchman is 1″8 ahead of Thierry Neuville (Hyundai) and regains an advantage of 19″5 overall.
3rd provisional time of the ES, Jari-Matti Latvala (Toyota) also catches some air for third place against his teammate Esapekka Lappi, with a 6″ gap between the two Finns. Mads Ostberg (Citroën) maintains fifth place for two tenths ahead of Hayden Paddon (Hyundai).
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SS12 at Monte Lerno is already underway. The SS11 times of Suninen (M-Sport Ford) and Mikkelsen (Hyundai) will be given live from this SS12.
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Ott Tänak (Toyota) concedes 12″5 on Sébastien Ogier’s best time. Fifth provisional time in this SS11.
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Stéphane Lefebvre (Citroën C3 R5), leader in WRC2, would be stopped on the road.
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Sébastien Ogier (M-Sport Ford) reversed the trend compared to the start of the special, gradually gaining the better of Neuville. 16'38″9 for the Frenchman, 1″8 ahead of the Belgian.
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16'40″7 for Thierry Neuville at the end of these 28 km of Monti di Ala', and provisional best time for the Belgian from Hyundai Motorsport. “A good stage, the car works well, I felt comfortable. Today I am on my pace. »
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“This ES is tough, there are some rocks. On the second loop, it will be very difficult. » warns Latvala.
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Latvala's final time confirms the partials: 16'46″5 for the Toyota driver who regains some air against Lappi with a 6″ lead overall.
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Esapekka Lappi awaits Latvala's time in the fight for the last step of the podium, indicating that he had to avoid a number of rocks brought into the trajectory.
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Note that Thierry Neuville (Hyundai) is the fastest in the first partials, notably ahead of Sébastien Ogier (M-Sport Ford)
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Second provisional time for Esapekka Lappi (Toyota) 3″8 behind Paddon.
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Mads Ostberg (Citroën), who confesses that he did not have the right tempo on this special with understeer, concedes 5″3 on Paddon and sees the Hyundai driver come back to 0″2 overall for fifth place.
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“I didn’t really attack,” admits Paddon. The cars behind will be faster but we are focusing on Mads. This stage is much drier than the last, but there are still some wet areas. »
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Clear improvement for Hayden Paddon (Hyundai), who set the best tempo of the first three drivers on the road. 16'47″8 for the Kiwi driver, 8″8 ahead of Craig Breen.
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Breen admits to a big shock at the start of SS and says he has to check the link before SS12.
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Craig Breen (Citroën) improved Evans' time to 16'56″6, 4″8 better than the Ford Fiesta driver.
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Elfyn Evans finished the SS in 17'01″4. “The grip is quite weak. » underlines the M-Sport Ford driver.
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Latvala seems to be on a good pace over the first kilometers of this ES. The Toyota Finn was the fastest in the first section, and was ahead of his teammate Esapekka Lappi in the fight for third place.
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Mads Ostberg (Citroën) and Esapekka Lappi (Toyota) are in action. The Finn is fighting for the podium against his teammate Jari-Matti Latvala, and closed to less than a second after SS10.
