The FIA World Rally Championship is back as Rallye Monte-Carlo kicked off the 2016 season with two night stages and ended with Kris Meeke topping the time sheets overnight with impressive pace. Stage 1 saw, what some might say, a victory by the defending champion Sébastien Ogier as he took his Volkswagen Polo R WRC through the 21.25 km test in 12:21.9, and while it was looking like it would be another VW dominattion Meeke popped up in second place, just 4.1 seconds behind Ogier. Following the stage Ogier would say that he took a cautious approach, 'The conditions are not too bad but still some places are slippery. I could go faster but I prefer to go like this.', Meeke however was pushing...
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