Reigning WRC champion Sebastien Ogier has been stripped of the four Power Stage bonus points he won in Rally Mexico for cutting a chicane. Ogier was penalised because he "did not go round the elements of the chicane as shown in the Road Book" on the final stage of the rally, a second run through Las Minas. A stewards' report said the M-Sport driver "hit the first two-block element" of the chicane "with the front-right side of the car" and then "touched the last element" as he exited the chicane. The Frenchman had finished second on the 11.07km test behind Ott Tanak's Toyota, earning four bonus points, but a 10-second time penalty dropped him to...
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