Craig Breen leads Rally Liepaja-Ventspils for Peugeot

The reigning Super 2000 World Rally champion is kicking off his Peugeot ERC programme on the gravel and snow event.

Breen has edged away from the DMACK-shod Autotek Ford of Jari Ketomaa through the first three stages, stretching his initial 0.3-second advantage to 6.4s by the end of the loop.

Francois Delecour holds third position in his Kronos Peugeot, 5.7s behind Ketomaa but already 20s clear of the best of the pack behind. The WRC veteran stayed on the pace despite having to hold his door closed with one hand for much of SS3.

Leading positions after SS3:

Pos  Driver             Team/Car                 Time/Gap
 1.  Craig Breen        Sainteloc Peugeot        22m15.4s
 2.  Jari Ketomaa       Autotek Ford               + 6.4s
 3.  Francois Delecour  Kronos Peugeot            + 12.1s
 4.  Alexey Lukyanuk    ASRT Mitsubishi           + 32.7s
 5.  Vytautas Svedas    Juta Mitsubishi           + 50.8s
 6.  Siim Plangi        ASRT Mitsubishi           + 59.4s
 7.  Raimonds Kisiels   Adapta Mini             + 1m01.0s
 8.  Vitaliy Pushkar    Pro Mitsubishi          + 1m02.7s
 9.  Aivis Egle         R-Evolution Mitsubishi  + 1m07.8s
10.  Jan Cerny          Czech Skoda             + 1m26.7s