M-Sport's Ott Tanak put in an “encouraging performance” and secured sixth position on Rally Australia last weekend. Tanak was making his debut on the event in a WRC car – having contested it for the first time twelve months ago in the Fiesta R5. Despite his inexperience, however, he posted ten top-six times in his Fiesta RS WRC, peaking with a second best time in Valla 1 (SS10) on Saturday morning, only 0.6s off the stage win. He was also third in SS1, SS5 and SS9. Tanak eventually took P6 with ease, more than 30s up on the Hyundai's of Thierry Neuville and Dani Sordo in seventh and eighth. “It's been a really tough rally. This was my first experience of these stages with a world...
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