Sebastien Ogier will take a lead of more than half a minute into the final day of the 2018 WRC season-opening Monte Carlo Rally. The reigning champion’s advantage was halved from its largest point as Toyota’s Ott Tanak continued to apply the pressure, having fallen back on the day’s opening stage. Ogier seemed to hint he was not happy with his tyre selection and lost six seconds to Tanak, but also claimed that deficit was “in the plan as I wanted to have 30 [seconds in hand] tonight”. Tanak has chipped away at Ogier’s lead ever since shipping more than a minute on Saturday’s first stage, bringing the gap from 1m18.4s at that point to 33.5s after SS13. He has four stages...
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