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Turkey WRC: Ogier overhauls Lappi to take lead
Reigning World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier has edged into the lead of Rally Turkey, just two tenths of a second ahead of Citroen teammate Esapekka Lappi.
Rob Hansford
Published: Sep 14, 2019, 2:11 PM
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Ogier’s afternoon got off to the perfect start as he won the Yesibelde stage for a second time, having won the same stage in the morning, and closed the gap to Lappi down to 2.2s.
The 2018 WRC champion was fourth-fastest on the following test, Datca, gaining 6.9s on his teammate and taking the lead as Lappi made a small mistake towards the end of the stage.
Lappi fought back brilliantly to win the day-closing Kizlan stage and close the gap back down to just 0.2s heading into Sunday's final four stages.
Andreas Mikkelsen (Hyundai) retains third after a consistent afternoon loop, but is 1m17.1s behind Ogier, while M-Sport Ford driver Teemu Suninen finished the day in fourth.
Dani Sordo was second-fastest on Datca, although he remains just under a minute behind Suninen in fifth in the second Hyundai.
Kris Meeke had an eventful loop as he first moved up into sixth position ahead of Toyota teammate Jari-Matti Latvala after Datca, but the Ulsterman's hard work was undone when he had a small crash 4km into Kizlan, and dropped back to 15s behind Latvala.
Thierry Neuville won Datca before going second-fastest with his Hyundai in Kizlan, but remains eighth and 4m38.2s off the lead after his roll in the morning.
M-Sport's Pontus Tidemand is ninth ahead of the Skoda Fabia R5 of Kajetan Kajetanowicz.
Standings after SS13 (top 10):
Pos. Driver Car Time/Gap 1 
Sebastien Ogier Citroen 3:20:12.0 2 
Esapekka Lappi Citroen +0.2 3 
Andreas Mikkelsen Hyundai +1:17.1 4 Teemu Suninen Ford +1:26.9 5 
Dani Sordo Hyundai +2:24.7 6 Jari-Matti Latvala Toyota +3:14.4 7 
Kris Meeke Toyota +3:29.5 8 
Thierry Neuville Hyundai +4:38.2 9 
Pontus Tidemand Ford +6:55.8 10
Kajetan Kajetanowicz
Skoda +12:52.5
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