Overview
- Sébastien Ogier carries a 10.3-second advantage over Adrien Fourmaux into the final 79.5 km across four Sunday stages.
- Ogier’s climb from eighth was powered by four Saturday stage wins and a lighter car after choosing to carry only five tyres versus rivals’ six.
- Kalle Rovanperä’s front-right puncture on SS14 Artigas 2 cost about 2m38s and dropped the long-time leader to sixth, more than two minutes off the lead.
- Championship leader Elfyn Evans sits third as the only Rally1 driver yet to suffer a major tyre issue, with Ott Tänak just 2.5s behind after his own puncture delayed his morning.
- Heavy impacts sidelined M‑Sport’s Josh McErlean and Grégoire Munster, Takamoto Katsuta rejoined after a Friday crash, and WRC2 is led by Robert Virves following Nikolay Gryazin’s problems with Oliver Solberg and Yohan Rossel close behind.