LONDON: Toyota's Ott Tanak won Wales Rally GB on Sunday to stretch his lead over Citroen's Sebastien Ogier in the world championship to 28 points with two rounds remaining.
Ogier, who had been chasing his sixth win in seven years in Britain, finished third behind Hyundai's Belgian Thierry Neuville.A maximum 60 points are still to be won in Spain and Australia but Ogier's hopes of taking a seventh title look increasingly remote. Estonian Tanak, who can become the first non-French champion since Norwegian Petter Solberg in 2003, finished 10.9 seconds ahead of Neuville and also collected five bonus points from the day's concluding power stage in North Wales.Ogier was 23.8 seconds behind but runner-up in the power stage, banking four extra points. Team mate Esapekka Lappi was third and Neuville fifth for a sole bonus point.
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