WRC Argentina

19:37 Here's the full story of that incredible rally. Thank you for your company, we'll be back for hopefully more of the same from Portugal in three weeks.

WRC Rally Argentina: Neuville denies Evans victory by 0.7s

Thierry Neuville denied Elfyn Evans and DMACK a first World Rally Championship win by just 0.7 seconds in an incredible finish to Rally Argentina

19:23 SS18 RESULTS

Stage times:

1 Neuville 13m00.1s
2 Evans +1.3s
3 Tanak +2.7s
4 Ogier +4.2s
5 Latvala +8.4s

Overall leaderboard:

1 Neuville
2 Evans +0.7s
3 Tanak +29.9s
4 Ogier +1m24.7s
5 Latvala +1m48.1s
6 Paddon +7m42.7s
7 Hanninen +11m16.9s
8 Sordo +14m44.1s
9 Ostberg +15m11.3s
10 Tidemand +17m32.1s

19:17 "I need to learn from it to come back stronger and win these rallies in the future," Evans concludes.

19:17 "Gutted to be honest. To lose by such a fine margin after so many issues..." says Evans.

He ran wide onto a bridge halfway through that stage and admits "that probably made the difference".

19:17 "I can't believe it," says Neuville.

19:16 Neuville has carved 16 points out of Ogier's 34-point championship lead here.

19:16 That's a second win in a row from Neuville and he scores a maximum 28 points. He's straight over to Evans to shake his hand.

19:16 Evans and Barritt look devastated as they slow their Ford at the finish.

19:15 Evans loses his first WRC win by just 0.7s - incredible but heartbreaking for the Welshman.

19:15 Evans is 1.3s slower, NEUVILLE WINS RALLY ARGENTINA

19:15 Neuville and Gilsoul are glued to the TV monitor at the finish.

19:14 Evans pulls a little back, the gap is 1.3s at the next split. That would put him 0.7s behind Neuville overall.

19:14 There's about one minute of this rally left...

19:14 Evans is slower at the next split! He's 1.6s off Neuville now!

19:12 Evans is 3.1s faster than Neuville at the latest timing point.

19:12 "I gave it everything," says Neuvllle. "Obviously I did not have the best tyres left as I've had to push for two stages already. It seems like he's very fast. Elfyn has done an amazing job. We are pleased with the result, even if we don't win we have done our best."

19:11 Tense expressions in the Hyundai as Neuville and Gilsoul slow down and wait to see what Evans can do.

19:10 And now it's all down to Evans.

19:10 Neuville is in, fastest on the powerstage so far by 2.7s over Tanak.

19:09 Neuville is 3.3s up on Tanak into the final miles. Awaiting Evans's time.

19:07 Right, Evans's lead is back to 3.5s on that measure. But about seven miles to go still.

19:07 The rally leader sets a superb time in the opening miles, he's 2.9s faster than Neuville there!

19:06 Evans is fastest at split one!!

19:06 Tanak takes over as powerstage pacesetter - 1.5s faster than Ogier.

That at least one point trimmed off Ogier's powerstage score too, which he was counting on given Neuville's set to beat him overall.

19:04 Tanak is a second up on Ogier on the latest split. Great weekend from the Estonian, he's had some ups and downs but for much of the rally he's simply outpaced his champion team-mate.

19:03 Good first split from Neuville, he's faster than everyone there bar Sordo - who then slowed with a puncture anyway.

19:02 Evans is onto the stage. Is he 10 miles away from a first WRC win in the biggest shock result in years, or 10 miles away from an agonising late defeat in a rally he's led since Friday morning.

19:01 Ogier is in, 4.2s faster than Latvala. He tops the powerstage for now, but Tanak, Neuville and Evans are still to come.

19:00 Ogier is up on Latvala, though, so he looks set to provisionally take the powerstage top spot for a few minutes at least.

18:59 Even though he was ostensibly saving tyres to charge on the powerstage, Ogier is only 0.4s quicker than Tanak at the split.

18:57 Neuville has begun the stage.

18:57 Paddon says this is "a career low", with broken power steering adding to his misery. Crikey.

He's said several times that little has gone right for him since he took his first and so far only WRC win here a year ago.

18:56 Latvala's in, fastest so far on the powerstage by 6.7s.

18:55 Ogier is past the mid-stage split but only second fastest to Sordo there. He's 1.2s quicker than Latvala, though.

Two minutes till Neuville begins the stage. Seven minutes till it's Evans o'clock.

18:53 All these problems mean right now the powerstage top three is still Breen, Ostberg, Hanninen.

But we've got all the leaders still to come.

Will they all make it through unscathed?

18:53 Yep, Paddon is through, over two minutes off the pace. But he claims sixth by 3m34s ahead of Hanninen.

18:52 Paddon is really going slowly to the end of this one. That problem might have got even worse than being confined to rear-wheel-drive.

He had a five and a half minute cushion to Hanninen though so his sixth place isn't really in danger if he keeps moving.

18:51 Six minutes until Neuville. Eleven minutes until Evans.

18:51 Ogier is now onto the stage. What an odd and underwhelming weekend the champion has had.

18:51 Latvala is second fastest on the split, 2.2s slower than Sordo's benchmark there. With Sordo's puncture then having intervened, it's still Breen fastest on this stage.