Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville ended the opening morning of OfficialWRC Rally Spain with a slender 0.5 second lead over Toyota man Sebastien Ogier. The rally lead changed three times in the opening four stages - read the full report here ⬇️
Neuville snatched the rally lead from eight-time world champion Ogier after winning the fourth and final test of the morning loop.
The top 10 was completed by Elfyn Evans , Hyundai’s Dani Sordo, Takamoto Katsuta in the fourth Toyota and a trio of M-Sport Fords headed by Craig Breen, followed by the returning Adrien Fourmaux and Gus Greensmith. Tanak was third fastest, 0.3s behind Neuville, but the Estonian was struggling for rhythm. Ogier was only a tenth back in fourth ahead of Evans, Sordo and lead M-Sport Puma runner Breen.
The Frenchman was 3.3s quicker than Neuville, who moved to second overall, while Rovanpera battled understeer and dropped to third after setting the fourth-quickest time, some 8.2s adrift of the pace. Rovanpera wasn’t the only driver struggling, as Breen lamented his pacenotes made during the recce as he dropped another 22.9s.
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