Thierry Neuville (Hyundai i20) consolidated the lead of the World Championship by winning the Acropolis Rally clearlytenth qualifying test and one of the toughest in the competition, ahead of Dani Sordo (Hyundai i20), while another contender for the title, Sebastien Ogier (Toyota Yaris), suffered a disaster in the final stage.
The Belgian, who won the Hellenic event in 2022, took another step towards his first world title after being runner-up on five occasions, since then His advantage over the French driver is 34 points.
Neuville faced the two sections of the final day of the Acropolis with a difference of 53.7 against Sordo, who came to lead the test, and 1:20.9 to Ogier, who tried to put pressure and was awarded a partial victory in both initial sections of the sun, but the leader knows how to fight without taking too many risks.
Ogier, who finished second, lost a place to Sordo when he took a risk and suffered a rollover in the final special of the day.which removed him from the fight and left the way for Neuville, who won with a difference of 2:36.8 against a Sordo who, in his reappearance in the World Championship after the Sardinia Rally in June, opted to be careful, while Estonian Ott Tanak (Hyundia i20) closed the podium in 2:57.3.
The Belgian leads the classification with 192 points, while Ogier has 158 and Tanak 154.while Sordo was eighth with 44. The World Championship will continue in the 26th Rally of Chile.
Source: La Verdad
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