Volkswagen's Sebastien Ogier has re-taken the lead on Rallye Deutschland on Friday's repeat loop, pulling out a 9.5 second gap over Jari-Matti Latvala. Ogier was in superb form all day, winning seven of the eight stages, but lost his lead initially in SS3, when he was a bit cautious, allowing team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala to go into the mid-day service on top, albeit only by 0.1s. This afternoon, however, Ogier was able to up the pace, immediately re-taking P1 in Sauertal 2, when he was 2.4s faster than Latvala The Frenchman then gained 2.3s in SS6 and 4.7s in SS7, before edging Latvala by 0.1s in the final test of the day. “I had a great afternoon, really good fun,” Ogier told the...
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