Consistency paid dividends for the Qatari driver who escaped the dramas that afflicted his rivals in incredibly rough conditions to move to the front midway through the leg in his Ford Fiesta RRC. “It was a good day, but there are a lot of people behind pushing. Tomorrow I have to drive with my head,” he said after returning to the overnight halt in Villa Carlos Paz. Yurii Protasov was the fastest driver, the Ukrainian winning four of today’s five tests to add to his victory in last night’s curtain-raising super special stage in Merlo. But his Fiesta RRC lies 1min 57.0sec behind Al-Kuwari after Protasov battled the odds to stay in the rally. His rear right wheel, damper, suspension...
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