Sébastien OGIER responded to win the stage by 2.0s over Adrien FOURMAUX.
Ogier was 3.2s faster than Elfyn EVANS and extends rally lead to 4.9s.
Kalle ROVANPERÄ climbs to seventh
Takamoto KATSUTA took a 5m40s penalty for being late to SS12 and was down in 15th.
Kalle ROVANPERÄ
“It was ok. It was quite a nice stage when you get to some more flow parts at the end of the stage. On this rally it is quite tricky [if we get rain]. We haven’t had big rain this year so I don’t think we know what to expect. It will be a tricky day.”
Grégoire MUNSTER
“We corrected the pace note at the tyre fitting zone. I thought I had quite a good pace through there. For sure I think we were struggling big time yesterday and we have made some improvement that allowed me to be more confident in the car.”
Ott TÄNAK
“It is the way it is and the way we are. [Still enjoy driving a rally car?] A proper rally car, yes.”
Sami PAJARI
“I have some [a bit of headache] but I was the reason causing it. It was a little bit unfortunate but we are still trying to keep up some good pace.”
Adrien FOURMAUX
“The profile of the stage is really different. It seems to be working. I was less clean than this morning but it was a bit more greasy in some places. It has been a strong day.”
Elfyn EVANS
“I just hit something on the outside, just caught out on a bit of loose. On the whole it feels ok but of course like this it is difficult.”
Sébastien OGIER
“It was a good stage. The previous one was also a good stage and Elfyn was driving well too. It is not easy to break the gap. At least we had an ok afternoon but I could have done better this morning.”
Oliver SOLBERG
“It will be cool [the final stage]. Driving over the bridge we have a few donuts which I’m very happy about, It is just about a show for the people and I like that kind of stage. It has been a very good day. The first one this afternoon I had all the chicane trouble and lost a lot of time from that but the rest has been really fast.”
Alejandro CACHÓN
“It was ok. I tried to make it clean. There was a lot of traffic jams on the road section so I cannot make the changes for this stages. Anyway it is a good day for us.”
