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Jari-Matti Latvala ends Friday in front in Rally Sweden

Jari-Matti Latvala will take a 16.8-second lead into day two of Rally Sweden, having safely completed the Karlstad superspecial which rounded off Friday's action

Ford driver Latvala had been in a close battle with ex-team-mate Mikko Hirvonen (Citroen) for most of the day, but as their tyres wore towards the end of the second loop, Latvala was able to pull away.

Petter Solberg is third in the second Ford, and now just 1.8s behind Hirvonen after saving fresh tyres for the end of the leg and gaining considerably on the man he replaced in the second works Fiesta, while simultaneously pulling away from Mads Ostberg's fourth-placed Adapta Ford. Winning the superspecial tonight further enhanced Solberg's position.

After his trip off the road earlier this afternoon, Citroen's Sebastien Loeb is back in seventh, with Henning Solberg's Go Fast Ford and Evgeny Novikov's M-Sport Ford the next two targets in his comeback chase when the rally resumes just before 8am local time on Saturday.

Leading positions after SS10:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car        Time/Gap
 1.  Jari-Matti Latvala  Ford          1h23m50.8s
 2.  Mikko Hirvonen      Citroen          + 16.8s
 3.  Petter Solberg      Ford             + 18.6s
 4.  Mads Ostberg        Adapta Ford      + 32.3s
 5.  Evgeny Novikov      M-Sport Ford   + 1m12.1s
 6.  Henning Solberg     Go Fast Ford   + 1m48.5s
 7.  Sebastien Loeb      Citroen        + 2m08.9s
 8.  Patrik Sandell      Mini           + 2m18.8s
 9.  Martin Prokop       Czech Ford     + 2m26.9s
10.  Eyvind Brynildsen   Adapta Ford    + 2m59.8s

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