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Prokop is through 0.4s quicker than Ostberg.
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Sordo hopeful for tomorrow. "It was difficult but we are here to try and tomorrow is a long day, and a new day. We will see what we can do."
He is fourth fastest through the stage.
Sordo takes a tiny bit of time out of Mikkelsen overall, 0.2s to be exact.
Paddon is in and he is sixth fastest. Neuville and Paddon are now joint sixth overall!
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Meeke has now jumped Ostberg overall. "It was very slippy, I made one little mistake but it was OK. We haven't hit the sweet spot with the car today, hopefully we can sort that for tomorrow."
Meeke is third fastest. 0.1s off the quickest time.
Neuville says he is "definitely going to push tomorrow."
He is hunting down Ostberg, the gap is 12.8s.
He is hunting down Ostberg, the gap is 12.8s.
That's the first time the three VWs have been split this afternoon.
Wow, great time by Neuville! In fact it's identical to Ogier!
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Ostberg stalled through the stage, interesting. "It's been a good day but I stalled the car- to waste seconds in a stupid stage like this is annoying."
Ostberg is 3s down on Ogier, fourth fastest so far.
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Fighting talk from Mikkelsen: "Yeah it has been a much better day than yesterday. Im starting to get in that tarmac groove and I will for sure try to catch Jari-Matti."
Mikkelsen with an identical time to Latvala! So no change for second.
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Latvala: "Generally I've been happy with how the stages have been going I know the speed is there."
Latvala is slightly slower, only 0.8s adrift.
So Ogier completes the stage in 2m33.4s. Is that good? We will see in about two minutes.
Green flag
Ogier is into the stage. As mentioned before it's not a long stage so there'll be no splits.
Less than five minutes to go now until SS17. It's only a short stage but we can still expect BIG drama.
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20-minutes to go until the start of the final stage of the day. So here's a re-cap of what happened this morning. 
I did say earlier how much I love the Lancia Stratos, so thanks David. Don't know how I'm going to afford to buy him an M3 though.
David Evans
"Salou service park is a place packed with style and fever at affordable prices..."
As we're heading to Salou for the final stage I think it's worth showing you all what David Evans is going to buy me for Christmas ...
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SS17 is our final stage of the day and for the final time here is Chris Patterson to talk us through the quick blast along the seafront.
SS17 Salou 1.39 miles
This seafront stage is very, very tricky. There are some big high kerbs in here – it would be really easy to take a wheel off the car. The corners are all really tight and they just keep on coming. The other problem with this one is that it’s in a pedestrian area right on the seafront, so the surface is covered in sand. When you touch the brakes, you often get the feeling the car actually speeds up! It’s not an easy way to end Saturday evening.
SS17 Salou 1.39 miles
This seafront stage is very, very tricky. There are some big high kerbs in here – it would be really easy to take a wheel off the car. The corners are all really tight and they just keep on coming. The other problem with this one is that it’s in a pedestrian area right on the seafront, so the surface is covered in sand. When you touch the brakes, you often get the feeling the car actually speeds up! It’s not an easy way to end Saturday evening.
In WRC2 Camilli is the quickest by a long way. He is 13.7s faster than current leader Tidemand!
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Overall standings after SS16:
1 Ogier 2h32m23s
2 Latvala +53.2s
3 Mikkelsen +56.1s
4 Sordo +1m0.8s
5 Ostberg +1m40.7s
6 Meeke +1m42.1s
7 Paddon +1m53.9s
8 Neuville +1m56.5s
9 Prokop +4m20.3s
10 Tidemand +7m07.7s
1 Ogier 2h32m23s
2 Latvala +53.2s
3 Mikkelsen +56.1s
4 Sordo +1m0.8s
5 Ostberg +1m40.7s
6 Meeke +1m42.1s
7 Paddon +1m53.9s
8 Neuville +1m56.5s
9 Prokop +4m20.3s
10 Tidemand +7m07.7s
Checkered flag
SS16 results:
1 Latvala 10m45s
2 Mikkelsen +5s
3 Ogier +6.6s
4 Meeke +7.3s
5 Paddon +7.8s
6 Sordo +8.1s
7 Neuville +8.6s
8 Ostberg +11s
1 Latvala 10m45s
2 Mikkelsen +5s
3 Ogier +6.6s
4 Meeke +7.3s
5 Paddon +7.8s
6 Sordo +8.1s
7 Neuville +8.6s
8 Ostberg +11s
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Another stage, another puncture. Here's Kubica: "There was a cut. In the cut we clipped the edge of the road and we had to change the rear right tyre.
So Kubica has lost more than three minutes following his incident.
Prokop and Al Quassimi are in. Prokop is 26.1s off the pace, Al Quassimi's a further 43.3s back.
Kubica is on the move again.
Crash
Kubica has stopped on stage.
A disappointed Sordo is still hoping he can stay within touching distance of the Volkswagen's: "I tried to do my best but it's difficult. The rally is still very long so we need to keep in touch."
Sordo is now down to fourth overall. He is sixth fastest through the stage, 8.1s slower than Latvala.
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Here's Paddon: "Without the punctures we've had this weekend things would have been very different."
Paddon edges out Neuville by 0.8s.
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Meeke: "We'll see (if he can catch Ostberg). Today hasn't been perfect. I've been playing about a bit with the setup of the car, I just can't find the sweet-spot."
Meeke is still closing in on Ostberg, despite constantly saying he isn't targeting his team-mate. He is 3.7s faster than Ostberg and is now only 1.4s behind him overall.
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