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Sebastien Loeb hangs on to Acropolis Rally lead as Jari-Matti Latvala pushes

Sebastien Loeb continued to lead the Acropolis Rally despite Jari-Matti Latvala coming close to usurping him on Saturday morning

The two leaders started leg two in Greece 6.5 seconds apart. Citroen driver Loeb added 1.1s to his margin on the opening Klenia Mycenae stage, but fastest times for Latvala's Ford on Ghymno and Kefalari brought the gap down to just a second.

Loeb retaliated on Ziria, the final stage of the loop, taking a narrow win and re-establishing a 2.2s advantage heading for service.

Petter Solberg (Ford) and Mikko Hirvonen (Citroen) remain third and fourth, but Evgeny Novikov has lost fifth place after his M-Sport Ford stopped with a broken water pump following SS12.

Czech Ford driver Martin Prokop now occupies the final top five spot, though that might not be the case for long as he has the recovering Mads Ostberg (Adapta Ford) just two seconds behind.

Leading positions after SS13:

Pos  Driver              Team/Car          Time/Gap
 1.  Sebastien Loeb      Citroen         3h04m31.8s
 2.  Jari-Matti Latvala  Ford                + 2.2s
 3.  Petter Solberg      Ford               + 20.1s
 4.  Mikko Hirvonen      Citroen          + 1m06.1s
 5.  Martin Prokop       Czech Ford       + 6m28.0s
 6.  Mads Ostberg        Adapta Ford      + 6m30.4s
 7.  Nasser Al-Attiyah   Qatar Citroen    + 7m02.4s
 8.  Sebastien Ogier     VW Skoda         + 8m02.5s
 9.  Andreas Mikkelsen   VW Skoda         + 9m10.4s
10.  Thierry Neuville    Citroen Junior   + 9m29.3s

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