Sebastién Ogier topped the times in the shakedown test for the 2016 Kennards Hire Rally Australia. The four-time World Rally Champion set a 3.01 out of his three runs and was a tenth quicker than Volkswagen team-mate Andreas Mikkelsen over the five kilometre stage. Being first on the road, Ogier was amazed at the effect cleaning the road but was thankful that the gap between cars wasn’t so great. “It’s such an incredible cleaning effect we have seen this morning,” he said. “By our calculations it is between 0.2sec – 0.3sec per car per kilometre faster. “It’s always difficult here but during the recce a lot of people said it was even worse than previous years. I didn’t...
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