Overview
- After Saturday’s leg, Oliver Solberg holds a 59.3s lead over Elfyn Evans with Sébastien Ogier third at 1:25.3, preserving a Toyota lockout of the podium.
- Ogier won a snowbound SS10 to cut into Evans’s advantage before Solberg responded by winning SS11 to rebuild his cushion as surfaces shifted from ice to slush.
- Solberg had already ended Friday 1m08.4s clear after nine stages despite a slow puncture, with Evans second and Ogier trimming their gap to 6.5s overnight.
- Thursday’s Vaumeilh/Claret test was stopped for thick fog after seven cars, with notional times issued; drivers also reported visibility hampered by flare smoke.
- Jon Armstrong sits sixth on his Rally1 debut despite punctures, Adrien Fourmaux is fourth following technical troubles and a late stage win, Thierry Neuville is fifth after a Friday ditch delay, and Takamoto Katsuta has climbed back into the top 10.