Ogier breaks away from Ostberg

Sebastien Ogier stretched his Rally Mexico lead to half a minute on Friday afternoon despite Mads Ostberg’s best efforts.

Ostberg won the Las Minas and Los Mexicanos stages in the middle of the loop, but only by relatively small margins.

Ogier was the quicker man on El Cubilete and El Chocolate, and each time his Volkswagen was over 10 seconds clear of the chasing M-Sport Ford.

That performance leaves Ogier 29.4s ahead of Ostberg heading for the evening superspecials.

Thierry Neuville blasted out of service with the second fastest time on El Cubilete, bringing him to within 0.4s of Mikko Hirvonen’s Citroen in third as both also gained on Ostberg.

Hirvonen responded and starting edging away even before a mistake by Neuville dropped him 24s back. The third-placed Finn is 8s down on Ostberg now.

Dani Sordo continues to struggle in fifth place in the second works Citroen and is over two and a half minutes off the lead.

Leading positions after SS11:
 
Pos  Driver             Team/Car             Time/Gap
  1.  Sebastien Ogier    Volkswagen         1h54m33.7s
  2.  Mads Ostberg       M-Sport Ford          + 29.4s
  3.  Mikko Hirvonen     Citroen               + 37.3s
  4.  Thierry Neuville   M-Sport Ford        + 1m01.7s
  5.  Dani Sordo         Citroen             + 2m35.0s
  6.  Nasser Al-Attiyah  M-Sport Ford        + 3m15.6s
  7.  Ken Block          Hoonigan Ford       + 4m38.2s
  8.  Benito Guerra      CRT Citroen         + 5m56.6s
  9.  Martin Prokop      Czech Ford          + 6m18.0s
 10.  Chris Atkinson     Abu Dhabi Citroen   + 7m06.5s
 

Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/world-rally-championship-news/wrc/ogier-breaks-away-from-ostberg

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