Toyota driver Elfyn Evans leads the way in RallyCroatia from M-Sport's Ott Tanak after Thierry Neuville retired from the day's action due to a crash. Saturday morning report: WRC
Toyota’s Elfyn Evans will take a 22.6-second lead over M-Sport’s Ott Tanak into Saturday afternoon at Rally Croatia after Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville crashed out of the lead.Evans started the day 5.7s behind leader Neuville but the Welshman inherited the rally lead when his Hyundai rival went off the road in stage 11, whichOnly 4.7s covered fourth to seventh with M-Sport’s Pierre-Louis Loubet leading the best of the rest.
The Finn recorded his first stage win since Sweden in February by setting the pace in stage 9, as he began to close in on team-mate Ogier, who started the day with a one-minute penalty for a safety belt infringement on stage 2. Tanak, much more comfortable in the Ford Puma, produced arguably the most impressive drive considering his road position to clock the second fastest-time, 1.2s adrift of Rovanpera.
Neuville was able to eke out his advantage over Evans to another three tenths after stage 10, which was won by Rovanpera, who pipped Ogier by 0.1s. Again facing the worse of the road conditions, Neuville misjudged a long right hander, 5.2km into the 10.13km test and crashed out of the rally.
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