Neuville scored his 70th special victory in the short Panzerplatte special.

The roads dry out with the sun returning to Panzerplatte. Drivers on soft tires could be in more difficulty.

Sordo only lost 4 tenths to Neuville and remained in ambush for 3rd place. Camilli is 2″8 off the provisional scratch.

Neuville improved the benchmark with a time of 1'48″0. Ostberg is 3″1 off the provisional scratch.

Ogier set a time of 1'49″6 in the 2,87km super special. The leader is ahead of Mikkelsen and Paddon by half a second.

The video summary of ES5 to ES10 is available here.

The strategies diverge a little for Panzerplatte. Latvala and Ostberg opted for 4 soft and 2 hard, Ogier, Camilli, Paddon and Neuville preferred 5 soft, Mikkelsen 4 hard and 2 soft and Sordo 4 soft and one hard.