A stronger afternoon from Thierry Neuville, after time loss from a morning spin, has introduced down the hole to the rear of the Toyota peloton to 4.4s, even when he was fearful about getting via the Mortágua take a look at in a single piece.
“This stage, I’ve had many unhealthy experiences,” mentioned Neuville of SS11. “I used to be in rear-wheel drive, I rolled, I spun, I did many issues on this stage [in the past]. I’m all the time a bit afraid about that one however we bought properly via.”
Championship chief Elfyn Evans struggled together with his function as roadsweeper on the day’s closing two levels, which have been single-pass checks. He was handed on the leaderboard by fellow GR Yaris runner Sami Pajari, falling to eighth place, 52.5s off the tempo.
Evans admitted that even together with his street order drawback, he’d did not make one of the best of a foul state of affairs.
“We should be a bit higher than this, I received’t lie,” he mentioned on the end on the day’s closing stage. “A little bit of a irritating day total.”
