How the WRC's bit-part player reignited Hyundai's challenge
He had to wait eight years for his first WRC win, and six years for his second. But at the same venue as his unexpected 2019 triumph, Hyundai's Dani Sordo took a popular win, as team-mate Thierry Neuville thrust himself back into title contention in second
In only his second World Rally Championship event of the year as part of the rotating pool of drivers in Hyundai's third car, Dani Sordo took a thoroughly deserved victory on Rally Italia Sardegna; his third career WRC win and his second in as many visits to Sardinia.
As the WRC continues to proceed cautiously out of lockdown, this final gravel round on the 2020 schedule felt much more like a full WRC event than either of the preceding events in Turkey or Estonia. Spectators and ceremonial events may have been absent (officially at least), but six timed stages on the opening day felt like business as usual.
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