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Latvala crash gifts Ogier huge lead on Rally Mexico

Finn loses a wheel after hitting a bank, so VW teammate Ogier leads by almost a minute over Citroen's Mads Ostberg. Sebastien Ogier seems destined to claim Rally Mexico – an event he declared before the event that he couldn’t win – after chief rival, Volkswagen teammate Jari-Matti Latvala, swiped a wheel off his Polo WRC. Ogier now leads by 50.5s over Citroen’s Mads Ostberg, with Andreas Mikkelsen up to third in the second VW Polo, with Elfyn Evans (Ford) and Dani Sordo (Hyundai) next up. Latvala’s first scare of the day came on SS11: "There was a big rock in a corner, I cut over it and the impact sent a big shock up though the damper,” he said. But although he escaped...
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