Mads Ostberg had looked like the man most likely to capitalise on Ogier's retirement on the rally's first full-length stage, but he lost time around the halfway point of the Ascochinga test with an intermittent engine issue, similar to the one he suffered in Monte Carlo. Instead, it was Ostberg's Citroen team-mate Kris Meeke who came through to take the lead, but a puncture on SS3 meant his advantage immediately fell to just 15.3 seconds, down from 32.7s. Jari-Matti Latvala - the sole remaining frontrunning Volkswagen - emerged as the closest man to Meeke after the second stage, setting a blistering time, 10.2s quicker than nearest challenger Ostberg and 18.6s ahead of Meeke. Ostberg holds...
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