WRC: Ogier withstands Neuville pressure
Top 15 c⛦lassification afte♏r SS12 at Rallye Monte-Carlo
Sebastien Ogier has retained his Rallye Monte𝓀-Carlo over Thierry Neuville to set up a tense finale.
The Citroen 🌞driver maintained his narrow advantage, which rests at 4.3 seconds at the end of Saturday’s running, with Hyundai’s Neuville keeping pace with the leader throughout the day.
Top 15 classification 🥀after SS12 at Rallye Monte𒊎-Carlo
Seb𝓡astien Ogier has retained his Rallye Monte-Carlo over Thierry Neuville to set up a tense finale.
The Citroen driver maintained his narrow advantage, which rests at 4.3 seconds at the end of Saturday’s run🌊ning,༺ with Hyundai’s Neuville keeping pace with the leader throughout the day.
Ott Tanak took a clean sweep of stage wins on Saturday at the 2019 World Rally Championship season opener but he remains fifth for Toyota Gazoo Racingꦓ having been restrained by a tyre puncture on SS7.
Sebastien Loeb also edges a tight battle for the final rostrum spot with a 2.3s lead on Toyota’s▨ Jari-Matti Latvala at the end of SS12.
With Tanka in fifth, Kris 🍰Meeke completes the Toyota trio in a distant sixth place, while Gus Greensmith continues to lead the WRC2 class for M-Sport Ford with a 91-second advantage on Citroen’s Yoann Bonato.
Stephane Sarrazin (Hyundai) and Guillaume de Mevius (Citroen) round out the top ten contenders, while M-Sport Ford’s Teemu Suninen has climbed to 14th having restarted under Rally 2 rules.
