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After Ogier's strong start, Neuville has gained ground and is now 3.6s faster than his title rival at the final split.
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"The feeling is better but the time could still be better," says Latvala. "But that's the way it is."
Latvala pulls enough back on the final part of the stage to stay ahead of Mikkelsen, which means he benefits from Meeke's error and moves back into fifth.
Here's how that looks:
5 Latvala
6 Mikkelsen +4.7s
7 Meeke +5.2s
Here's how that looks:
5 Latvala
6 Mikkelsen +4.7s
7 Meeke +5.2s
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Meeke reveals that time loss was due to an error - he braked too late in one section, ran wide into a hay bale and lost around 10s.
Meeke is only fifth fastest, 14.5s off Hanninen's pace and 12s off Mikkelsen - which means he loses fifth to Mikkelsen by half a second.
Ogier is the latest to fall victim to 'crazy second split'. He probably hasn't really lost half a minute, that's just a glitch.
Mikkelsen is 2.5s off Hanninen so only second fastest, but the splits suggest he could gain about 10s to Meeke and Latvala here, which would be a huge swing in the fight for fifth.
"A bit careful in some places so not really perfect, but still a good stage," says Mikkelsen.
"A bit careful in some places so not really perfect, but still a good stage," says Mikkelsen.
Ogier said he needed to get on with it after the last stage, and it looks like he is. He's taken 1.2s off Neuville at split one.
Evans, though, is blitzing them all again.
Evans, though, is blitzing them all again.
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"Very difficult for the confidence," says Sordo. "I am very, very slow."
And that does indeed happen, Sordo is 15.8s off Hanninen's current benchmark pace and 9.8s off team-mate Paddon so falls to ninth.
That leaves the lower top 10 battle looking like this:
8 Paddon
9 Sordo +7.3s
10 Hanninen +10.1s
That leaves the lower top 10 battle looking like this:
8 Paddon
9 Sordo +7.3s
10 Hanninen +10.1s
Sordo has lost 10s to team-mate Paddon at the final split, which is likely to mean the Hyundais swap eighth and ninth places.
Latvala's second split isn't great and doesn't look wrong enough to be rogue - he's 9.7s slower than Meeke. When we get Mikkelsen's 'real' time we'll see if Latvala's likely to lose sixth.
Paddon finishes the stage 5.9s slower than Hanninen, so the gap from ninth to 10th is down to 10.1s.
Mikkelsen has allegedly lost half a minute. But as that's at the same point on the stage where we had the rogue time for Lappi, we're not taking it too seriously yet.
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"I'm quite happy, but this one I was not so happy - I was a bit too careful, the grip was changing, not so good," says Hanninen. "The rhythm is better than yesterday."
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Hanninen comes in 12.1s quicker than Lappi, so is now a comfortable 22.5s clear of his Toyota team-mate in a provisional 10th. Time to chase some Hyundais, Juho!
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So Lappi finishes the stage 17s quicker than Ostberg. That was a rogue split, and Lappi didn't have a major drama - but neither did he have a very good stage.
"I changed something on the centre diff, but now I'm missing the bite from the brakes. Struggling quite a bit. It's a gamble now to get it right because we don't have any idea what to do."
"I changed something on the centre diff, but now I'm missing the bite from the brakes. Struggling quite a bit. It's a gamble now to get it right because we don't have any idea what to do."
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And it turns out Ostberg has had trouble, that electrical glitch ruining his stage:
"There are some big electrical problems with the car and the car just stopped in the stage. I've got no idea what's going on but the car is dangerous to drive. The centre diff is opening and closing and opening and closing. It seems like everything is just getting worse and worse."
"There are some big electrical problems with the car and the car just stopped in the stage. I've got no idea what's going on but the car is dangerous to drive. The centre diff is opening and closing and opening and closing. It seems like everything is just getting worse and worse."
Whatever's happened with Lappi's middle split, he's still lost 9s to Hanninen at the final split.
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Mikkelsen is fastest to split one so far, but only by a tenth over Meeke.
Curious stuff: At split two, Lappi had lost 32s to Ostberg. At split three, Lappi is 3s faster than Ostberg.
Was that the timing system having a flap, or have both had problems? We'll find it when they reach the finish.
Was that the timing system having a flap, or have both had problems? We'll find it when they reach the finish.
Sometimes Autosport Live punditry can be a curse, but just as we type that Hanninen has a shot at catching Paddon, a split time comes in that shows Hanninen has gained 6.7s on the Hyundai on this stage so far.
Lappi's problem will give Hanninen a load of breathing space in 10th. In fact, Hanninen can look forwards - he's been in the top six on both stages today and is within 20s of both Paddon and Sordo's Hyundais ahead.
With this being Hanninen's last competitive appearance for Toyota, a charge ahead of some i20s would be a nice way to sign off.
With this being Hanninen's last competitive appearance for Toyota, a charge ahead of some i20s would be a nice way to sign off.
Lappi was 18s clear of Ostberg starting this one, so is set to lose 11th place. (Unless there was a timing system glitch not a Lappi/Toyota glitch)
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Problem or incident for Lappi - he's lost about half a minute in the middle of this stage.
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The first cars are onto the stage, with Lappi fastest among those battling at the foot of the top 10.
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And the next stage, Dyfi, has already begun:
SS11 Dyfi (16.06 miles)
If it's been raining, this road will be really slippery – especially near the start where there's always the risk of a bit of standing water on the inside of some of the corners. But the worst place for grip is on the bedrock, which comes in the middle of the stage.
After that, once it starts to climb, this one just gets better and better with plenty of medium and high-speed corners.
Not dissimilar in nature to Gartheiniog, which is no surprise because both roads are pretty much under the same – massive – bunch of trees.
SS11 Dyfi (16.06 miles)
If it's been raining, this road will be really slippery – especially near the start where there's always the risk of a bit of standing water on the inside of some of the corners. But the worst place for grip is on the bedrock, which comes in the middle of the stage.
After that, once it starts to climb, this one just gets better and better with plenty of medium and high-speed corners.
Not dissimilar in nature to Gartheiniog, which is no surprise because both roads are pretty much under the same – massive – bunch of trees.
Just one big story from that stage - Ogier only 12th fastest. And as it was a short one, he was still within 5.8s of the pace, but that dropped him from third to fourth behind title rival Neuville.
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SS10 results:
Leading stage times:
1 Evans 7m30.5s
2 Neuville +0.3s
3 Mikkelsen +0.4s
4 Latvala +1.6s
5 Hanninen +1.7s
Overall leaderboard:
1 Evans
2 Tanak +39.8s
3 Neuville +45.7s
4 Ogier +48.6s
5 Meeke +59.2s
6 Latvala +1m01.0s
7 Mikkelsen +1m10.7s
8 Sordo +1m49.8s
9 Paddon +1m52.4s
10 Hanninen +2m08.4s
Leading stage times:
1 Evans 7m30.5s
2 Neuville +0.3s
3 Mikkelsen +0.4s
4 Latvala +1.6s
5 Hanninen +1.7s
Overall leaderboard:
1 Evans
2 Tanak +39.8s
3 Neuville +45.7s
4 Ogier +48.6s
5 Meeke +59.2s
6 Latvala +1m01.0s
7 Mikkelsen +1m10.7s
8 Sordo +1m49.8s
9 Paddon +1m52.4s
10 Hanninen +2m08.4s
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And here's Evans - fastest again. He's 0.3s quicker than Neuville and now leads by 39.8s over Tanak.
Tanak comes in 3.4s slower than Neuville, so as well as taking third place Neuville has moved to within 5.9s of second.
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"It looks like I'm not ready to take enough risks," says Ogier. "But I have to try a bit more as that's too slow."
Ogier is only 10th fastest - 5.5s off pacesetter Neuville, and that drops him to a provisional fourth overall, 2.9s behind Ogier.
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Neuville says he "pushed a bit more in this one. Obviously everyone knows the stage very well so it's difficult to make a big difference".
Tanak is between Neuville and Ogier for pace, 1.9s faster than his team-mate but 1.8s off Neuville.
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Neuville sets the fastest stage time so far, 0.1s up on Mikkelsen.
Ogier is nearly 4s slower than Neuville at the split - that would be enough to take Neuville past Ogier into third place.
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"A little bit better now," says Latvala. "That's the first time on this rally I had a more comfortable feeling with the car. Let's see what we can do."
He says he's been working hard on the damper settings between stages.
He says he's been working hard on the damper settings between stages.
Latvala is second fastest to Mikkelsen so far, losing 1.2s to his pursuer but nibbling nine tenths back from Meeke ahead.
So the battle for fifth now looks like this:
5 Meeke
6 Latvala +1.8s
7 Mikkelsen +11.5s
So the battle for fifth now looks like this:
5 Meeke
6 Latvala +1.8s
7 Mikkelsen +11.5s
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