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WRC: Neuville in the lead in Portugal after the first special

The leader of the World Rally Championship, Belgian Thierry Neuville (Hyundai), won the opening special of the Portugal Rally, the fifth event of the season, on Thursday, 6/10 of a second ahead of the eight-time champion.

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WRC: Neuville in the lead in Portugal after the first special

The leader of the World Rally Championship, Belgian Thierry Neuville (Hyundai), won the opening special of the Portugal Rally, the fifth event of the season, on Thursday, 6/10 of a second ahead of the eight-time champion. of the French world Sébastien Ogier (Toyota).

The Estonian Ott Tänak (Hyundai) took third place two seconds behind, in the same time as the Japanese Takamoto Katsuta (Toyota), while the Briton Elfyn Evans (Toyota), second in the world championship, was content from eighth place to 4.3 seconds. This stage was an hors d'oeuvre of less than three kilometers, laid out in the city on the asphalt, and the drivers held back, in order to preserve their tires for the tough day of Friday, which will offer two loops of four stages , mainly on land.

Until Sunday, the drivers will have to negotiate a total of 22 special stages representing a total of 337.04 timed kilometers around Matosinhos, not far from Porto (north). The Finn Kalle Rovanperä (Toyota), the winner of the last two editions, is fifth at 2.4 seconds.

For the first time this season Toyota is fielding the two multiple champions Ogier and Rovanperä at the same time, in addition to Evans and Katsuta. The Japanese firm, leading the manufacturers' world championship, hopes to widen the gap with its runner-up Hyundai. Ogier remains on a victory in Croatia in April, and has hopes of victory in Portugal, in an event that he has already won five times (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017).

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