The Welshman overcame an afternoon steering problem to end the penultimate leg of this second round of the FIA World Rally Championship with a 17.9sec lead. Evans won the opening special stage in the snowy forests near Hagfors in his Ford Fiesta R5. But Tidemand (pictured below), who lost time yesterday with a broken driveshaft, claimed two wins and two second places in his Skoda Fabia R5 to reduce the deficit from 42.5sec. “Pontus has driven really well today, but we’ve had a few little issues so if everything goes to plan we should have a big enough margin going into tomorrow’s final stage,” said Evans. “We had a problem with the steering. I wasn’t sure what it was at the...
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