WRC king Sebastien Ogier leads Rally Sardinia going into the final day after the heroics of longtime pace-setter Hayden Paddon suffered several blows on Saturday. Ogier holds a 2m13.6s advantage in his Volkswagen Polo R over Paddon’s Hyundai i20, whose lead was wiped out with a spin and then he hit a rock – damaging his car. The duo were neck-and-neck through Saturday morning’s stages, and Paddon enjoyed better road conditions to extend his 8.8sec overnight lead by half a second. But when the Kiwi spun and stalled his engine at a hairpin on the afternoon’s second stage, the Frenchman took the lead and extended it when Paddon struck a rock in the next test. “I don’t want to be a...
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