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SS7 summary:
*Loeb takes second stage win and is now third overall
* Ogier third on stage but tyre choice helps him move into lead
*Neuville now 14s adrift in second
*Puncture drops Tanak from third to seventh
*Meeke has wheel-rim issue and is five minutes behind leader
*Loeb takes second stage win and is now third overall
* Ogier third on stage but tyre choice helps him move into lead
*Neuville now 14s adrift in second
*Puncture drops Tanak from third to seventh
*Meeke has wheel-rim issue and is five minutes behind leader
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SS7 results:
Stage times:
1 Loeb 14m26.6s
2 Evans +4.4s
3 Ogier +9.3s
4 Suninen +20.2s
5 Neuville +24.7s
6 Mikkelsen +28.9s
Overall leaderboard:
1 Ogier 1h23m39.8s
2 Neuville +14s
3 Loeb +1m15.5s
4 Mikkelsen +1m20s
5 Latvala +1m27.8s
6 Evans +1m45s
7 Tanak +2m39.7s
8 Meeke +5m05.9s
Stage times:
1 Loeb 14m26.6s
2 Evans +4.4s
3 Ogier +9.3s
4 Suninen +20.2s
5 Neuville +24.7s
6 Mikkelsen +28.9s
Overall leaderboard:
1 Ogier 1h23m39.8s
2 Neuville +14s
3 Loeb +1m15.5s
4 Mikkelsen +1m20s
5 Latvala +1m27.8s
6 Evans +1m45s
7 Tanak +2m39.7s
8 Meeke +5m05.9s
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"I broke another rim, that's the third this weekend," says Meeke, explaining his time loss. "We need a stronger one - simple."
Meeke's time loss in the end is 3m51.4s to Loeb. That drops him to eighth overall, more than five minutes off rally leader Ogier.
Meeke will be the final driver through, and is 3m30s slower than Ogier with the final split and stage finish left to complete.
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"OK, cool!" says Loeb, when he's told he's third overall. "I had a really good stage now. I knew I lost a lot in the other stage."
That effort is 16s faster than his time on the same stage this morning and, with all that's happened on the stage, elevates him from seventh to third in the order!
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Loeb comes through now and is fastest by 4.4s! That's his second stage win in Hyundai colours, on the repeat run of the stage he won this morning.
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"We obviously had the right tyres so that helps," says Evans, who's not particularly expressive about his fastest time.
Loeb should just about eclipse that, though, when he comes through the finish.
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Evans is through now and goes fastest, at least temporarily, by 4.9s!
Meeke has got going but is more than 3s down on Ogier through the second split. Not good.
Mikkelsen brings his Hyundai through the finish and, while he can't get anywhere near Ogier's time, he's fourth on the board and assumes third overall.
While we wait for more info on Meeke, let's update you on Evans and Loeb.
The pair are now fastest of all on the stage, with Loeb 2s clear of Evans (who is now 4s clear of Ogier) at the penultimate split.
The pair are now fastest of all on the stage, with Loeb 2s clear of Evans (who is now 4s clear of Ogier) at the penultimate split.
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Reports in that Meeke has stopped on the stage.
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Tanak offers little at the end-of-stage interviews, other than to confirm he had a puncture and to say he didn't know how it happened.
Bit of a gap at the finish while we wait for Tanak, but he's in now. His time loss is a mighty 2m12.9s to Ogier.
Latvala follows his team-mate in now and hasn't set the world alight - he's 25s slower than Ogier.
Latvala follows his team-mate in now and hasn't set the world alight - he's 25s slower than Ogier.
Finally, there are a couple more dashes of green on the timing screen. Evans is up on Suninen - and only a second or so slower than Ogier - through split two, while Loeb is fastest of all by 4s through the same checkpoint.
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"The mistake [on the previous stage] cost us all the time," says Neuville. "We have to accept that - we were too fast and went off. With the tyres I had it was pretty good I think."
Neuville completes the stage 15.4s slower than Ogier - so is now 14s behind his rival in the classification. Big swing.
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"It was the plan. We had a different tyre choice to Thierry and now we have one more slick than him," says Ogier. "[I was not at] full [attack] because there's a lot of big cuts, very aggressive for tyres."
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Ogier comes through now and goes fastest by 10.9s. That should hand him the lead of the rally.
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Suninen completes the stage in 14m46.8s. Apart from Ogier, no-one is going quicker than him at the moment.
"Quite dirty, but in general it's quite dry so the only way [is] for the soft slicks," he says of stage conditions. "It's not really cleaning."
"Quite dirty, but in general it's quite dry so the only way [is] for the soft slicks," he says of stage conditions. "It's not really cleaning."
Further up the road, Ogier now has 13.5s in hand over Neuville at the fifth split.
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Tanak appears to have picked up a puncture and had to stop to change it. He's back going again, but is 1m55s down on Ogier at the second split.
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More on Tanak to come, but while we wait for more info Citroen confirms Lappi has retired "following his broken driveshaft and wishbone in SS6". The team says he will return tomorrow.
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Tanak has stopped!
Ogier looks well on course to assume the lead here. He's 7.1s up on Suninen at split three, and at the previous split his advantage over Neuville is up to 5.9s.
Tanak is another 1.2s slower than Neuville at the first split.
Ogier goes 1.1s up on Suninen through the first split, but Neuville can't match either - he's 2.3s down on Ogier. That'll be enough to hand the Citroen man the lead.
Neuville heads onto the stage. He has a fourth studded tyre as well as two softs on his Hyundai.
Ogier is also up and running now. A reminder that his allocation for this loop is three studded tyres, one supersoft and two softs.
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Lappi's issues are reported to be a broken wishbone and driveshaft.
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Suninen gets SS7 underway.
This stage was most favourable to those running slicks this morning, so expect the drivers with more dry tyres available - the likes of Loeb, Ogier and Evans - to fare well here.
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To prepare you for the next test, here's a stage preview from Kris Meeke's co-driver Seb Marshall:
SS7 Roussieux-Laborel (14.94 miles)
The first four kilometres are new for us and from then on we rejoin a stage from last year. That new section makes this one the longest the loop. One of the issues with this one from last year is the amount of corner-cutting. The road’s pretty similar throughout the stage, about a car and a half wide, but there’s the chance to really make time in the cuts. Trouble is, we’re running a bit further back in the order, so if everybody’s cutting ahead of us it pulls out so much mud, slush and rubbish into the road… we saw some fairly big time differences here last season. Of the three stages over the morning, this one will be the most familiar – apart from the new bit at the beginning – for the drivers.
SS7 Roussieux-Laborel (14.94 miles)
The first four kilometres are new for us and from then on we rejoin a stage from last year. That new section makes this one the longest the loop. One of the issues with this one from last year is the amount of corner-cutting. The road’s pretty similar throughout the stage, about a car and a half wide, but there’s the chance to really make time in the cuts. Trouble is, we’re running a bit further back in the order, so if everybody’s cutting ahead of us it pulls out so much mud, slush and rubbish into the road… we saw some fairly big time differences here last season. Of the three stages over the morning, this one will be the most familiar – apart from the new bit at the beginning – for the drivers.
There's around 10 minutes now until the penultimate stage of the day - the second run at the Roussieux-Laborel test - kicks off.
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