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Juho Hanninen ahead in Rally Azores tussle with Andreas Mikkelsen

Juho Hanninen has moved back into the Rally Azores lead with two stages to go, after briefly losing his first position to Andreas Mikkelsen

Amid further rain and fog on the island, factory Skoda driver Hanninen fell to second on SS13 when he missed a junction and found himself 2.7 seconds behind Mikkelsen (Skoda UK) in the overall classification.

But Hanninen responded in style on the next stage, with a time 13.9s quicker than anyone else. Although Mikkelsen then won the following superspecial, Hanninen's lead was back up to 10.9s.

Bruno Magalhaes lost third when a transmission problem forced him to park his Peugeot before SS14. That means Jan Kopecky's Skoda now looks to have the final podium place in the bag.

Leading positions after SS15:

Pos  Driver             Team/Car                Time/Gap
 1.  Juho Hanninen      Skoda                 1h44m09.9s
 2.  Andreas Mikkelsen  Skoda UK                 + 10.9s
 3.  Jan Kopecky        Skoda                  + 1m19.9s
 4.  Bryan Bouffier     ROMO Peugeot           + 3m13.7s
 5.  Patrik Sandell     Skoda Sweden           + 4m24.8s
 6.  Ricardo Moura      Mitsubishi (private)   + 4m46.4s
 7.  Vitor Lopes        Subaru (private)       + 7m29.3s
 8.  Vitor Pascoal      Mitsubishi (private)   + 9m04.0s
 9.  Sergio Silva       Subaru (private)      + 10m23.3s
10.  Paulo Maciel       Citroen (private)     + 13m29.3s

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