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Kiwi Paddon holds off Ogier in Argentina

Hayden Paddon kept world champion Sebastien Ogier at bay to win the Rally of Argentina on Sunday for his first world rally championship success. The Hyundai driver, tipped as a future world champion, inherited a handsome lead after Jari-Matti Latvala crashed out in his VW Polo on Saturday. And he held his nerve over the three closing stages although he had a scare on the fourth day's opener when he lost time to Ogier after a gearbox change. He took fourth in that stage 16 and then third in the next special won by Ogier who had started the day half a minute behind but was now bang in the hunt only 2.6sec shy of the New Zealander. The 29-year-old Paddon kept his cool to clock the quickest...
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