After last month’s breakthrough success in Argentina, Meeke was again in the fight for victory at Vodafone Rally de Portugal and trailed winner Jari-Matti Latvala by only six seconds midway through Saturday’s penultimate leg. “Argentina helped him a lot in the fact that he is less stressed,” Matton told wrc.com. “Knowing he has won one rally, he can step away a little and what he did in Portugal was what we expected from him. Now he doesn’t need to always fight to prove he is able to win.” Meeke eventually finished fourth in his DS 3 after a broken anti-roll bar in Sunday’s final leg meant the Ulsterman could not duel with Volkswagen’s Andreas Mikkelsen for the final...
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