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SS11: Burns is the boy

It was Richard Burns' turn to lead the way on SS11 as his Leg Two dogfight with Colin McRae stayed right on the boil. The Subaru star was 2.7s quicker than the Ford ace over the 17.48km Amboy 1 stage. Burns has now nibbled into the Scot's overall lead which stands at 39.7s as the teams head into the Calamuchita service area

The two Britons were the class of the field and it was a revived Tommi Makinen who ran them closest. The Finn, who had suffered with driveline problems in the previous two stages, was back on it to set the third fastest time, 6.7s behind Burns.

Didier Auriol's challenge is in serious trouble though. The Frenchman lost a minute and a half on SS10 with throttle problems and he has now dropped a further 2m40s to sink to ninth place overall.

But Auriol's Peugeot team mate Marcus Gronholm is in much better shape. He set the fourth fastest time to consolidate his grip on fourth place overall, edging closer to third placed Carlos Sainz after the Spaniard set a relatively poor time to be seventh quickest over the stage.

Francois Delercour was fifth quickest over the stage and has now moved ahead of Mitsubishi's Freddy Loix to be seventh overall.

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