Britain's Kris Meeke missed out on a podium finish on Rally de Portugal last weekend, with a broken anti-roll bar in the penultimate test leaving him unable to fight with Volkswagen's Andreas Mikkelsen. Meeke had been well on course for a top-three in his Citroen DS 3 WRC, even closing to within 6.1s of eventual winner, Jari-Matti Latvala on Saturday morning, after setting the pace in SS9 and SS10. However, in the afternoon he was overhauled by Volkswagen's Sebastien Ogier, while Mikkelsen closed to within 1.1s. On Sunday, it remained closed, with Mikkelsen just inching ahead by just 0.4s after Fafe 1, until the failure in SS15. “You can't win every weekend,” said Meeke, who took his...
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