Wales Rally GB 2016
Ogier should soon set off on the second passage of Gartheinog, 11,34km long. Neuville was the fastest there this morning in 7'00"5.
Meeke is still losing time on Paddon. The Citroën driver finished 5 seconds behind the Hyundai and found himself almost half a minute behind 4th place.
Ostberg achieves the same time as Sordo. The M-Sport driver is still 7th.
Paddon: There's not much more I can do. Even though things are getting better, we still lack traction. It goes against my driving instincts. »
Latvala signs the 3rd provisional time, one tenth behind Neuville. The VW driver remains 8th.
Sordo remains on a cautious pace, ranking 10s behind Paddon. The Spaniard remains isolated in 6th position.
Neuville: “I did a good special. It was more slippery and I remained careful. I couldn't go any faster. »
Paddon achieves the same time as Paddon and drops another 1″5 to his teammate Neuville. The New Zealander finds himself 11″7 from 3rd place.
Mikkelsen finished 9″5 behind Ogier. Neuville beats him by 1″5 but fails 8s behind Ogier.
Ogier set a first time of 12'15″7.
" Everything is fine. It's very greasy and slippery, but we're doing everything we can, so so far so good."
- Sébastien Ogier (@SebOgier) 29th October, 2016
Mikkelsen found himself 7″4 behind Ogier in the 3rd split. A timing error in the first sector could explain his astonishing lead.
Paddon is 3″1 behind Ogier in the 1st split. It seems that Mikkelsen is off to a very high pace.
The delay at the start of SS13 was caused by a lack of spectator safety.
Mikkelsen is clearly ahead of Ogier in the 1st split. The Norwegian is ahead of the Frenchman by more than 11 seconds... Could the French driver have a problem?
Ogier started SS13 about ten minutes late than the time initially planned.
The start of SS13 was delayed for an undetermined reason.
Ogier is about to set off in the 21,12km Dyfi. Ogier took the scratch in 12'01″2.