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Juho Hanninen maintains Rally Azores advantage for Skoda

Juho Hanninen remains in the lead of Rally Azores after the second loop of Friday stages, which was truncated by the cancellation of SS9

The reigning Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion lost a few seconds to the chasing Andreas Mikkelsen when he struck a rock and damaged a tyre on SS7, but rebuilt his lead to 10 seconds by going quickest on SS8.

The following Sete Cidades stage was then called off due to delays extracting cars that had stopped around the fog-bound course when it was initially run in the morning.

Bruno Magalhaes (Peugeot Portugal) continues to battle with Jan Kopecky's Skoda for third, with just 1.8s separating the pair heading into the day's final three stages.

Leading positions after SS9:

Pos  Driver             Team/Car               Time/Gap
 1.  Juho Hanninen      Skoda                  47m56.3s
 2.  Andreas Mikkelsen  Skoda UK                + 10.1s
 3.  Bruno Magalhaes    Peugeot Portugal        + 30.4s
 4.  Jan Kopecky        Skoda                   + 32.8s
 5.  Patrik Sandell     Skoda Sweden          + 1m35.9s
 6.  Bryan Bouffier     ROMO Peugeot          + 1m48.0s
 7.  Ricardo Moura      Mitsubishi (private)  + 2m07.3s
 8.  Vitor Lopes        Subaru (private)      + 3m07.1s
 9.  Vitor Pascoal      Mitsubishi (private)  + 4m05.7s
10.  Pedro Vale         Mitsubishi (private)  + 4m25.7s

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