Corsica-SS7: Ogier gets closer to Neuville

Published on 08/04/2017 à 15:30

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Sébastien Ogier (Ford) achieves the best time of SS6 at the Tour de Corse by completing the 48,71 km of La Porta – Valle di Rostino in 32'15″9 and ahead of Jari-Matti Latvala (Toyota) of 5″ and Thierry Neuville (Hyundai) of 6″.

A performance which allows the Frenchman to come back to 2″2 behind Neuville in the general classification. Dani Sordo (Hyundai) retains third place in the general classification, but sees Latvala now at 11″3. The Finn took the advantage Craig Breen (Citroën), now ranked fifth, two tenths behind Latvala. Hayden Paddon (Hyundai) follows in sixth position.

En WRC-2, Andreas Mikkelsen (Skoda) is heading towards a new best time, provisionally ahead of Teemu Suninen (Ford) by 0″9. Mikkelsen still dominates the category ranking ahead of Teemu Suninen at 1'06″2. Stéphane Sarrazin, who is not registered in the category for the championship, remains 23″6 behind Mikkelsen, and in eighth position overall.

The top 10 in the Tour de Corse classification is completed by Suninen and Yohan Rossel (Citroën). In R-GT, Romain Dumas (Porsche), ahead of François Delecour (Abarth 124 Rally) in this timed sector, remains in the lead of the event.

Tour de Corsica classification

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