Volkswagen's Jari-Matti Latvala saw off team-mate and Championship leader Sebastien Ogier to take a morale-boosting win on Rally de Portugal on Sunday. Latvala started the final leg of the fifth round in the 2015 FIA World Rally Championship, 9.5 seconds up on Ogier, and while he conceded 1.7s to the Frenchman in Fafe 1 (SS14), the quickest time in SS15 – the penultimate test of the event – took it back to 10.3s and gave him the cushion he needed to take his first victory since Rallye de France last October. It was also his first podium – and not to mention his first points finish - since the season opening Rallye Monte Carlo, after events to forget in Sweden, Mexico and Argentina....
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