Volkswagen's Jari-Matti Latvala took his thir🐭d victory of the season on Tour de Corse - Rallye de France on Sunday.

It was his second successive win in France - after tr🐷iumphing on last year's event in Alsace - and his♈ second on asphalt, although the event in Corsica was far from easy, with torrential rain forcing organisers to cancel both runs through the 43.69 km test through Casamozza-Ponte Leccia - SS2 and SS4 - due to flooding and landslides.

"It's been a great weekend. We haven't been at the maximum at any point, but we had to be careful driving in difficult condition🃏s," Latvala told the official WRC site.

"I won the Rallye de France last year, so I'm so happy to 🍸be able to win here in Corsica too."

Latvala finished the wet opening day in third, 22.9 secꦰonds behind M-Sport's Elfyn Evans, who went top with a brilliant time in SS3.

The weather improved on Saturday, but conditions remained tricky in SS5, although that didn't stop Lat🌃vala, who closed on Evans, slashing the ga🧜p to just 1.7s, before moving ahead in SS6.

Going into the final leg, Latvala had a 2 second cushion, but he soon stretched it, taking💝 it to 17.6s in SS7 and 32.7s in SS8. He eventually won by 43.1 seconds, after coming third in the event ending Power Stage.

Meanwhile, Evans managed to hold off VW Motorsport II pilot ෴Andreas Mikkelsen to take the 🦂runners-up spot.

It was Evans' best result to date in the WRC and only his second-ever podium, after finishing third in Argen🦹tina earlier this year.

"Andreas was pushing hard today but I thought as lo💃ng as I had a clean [final] stage we'd keep it," said Evans. "I'm pretty happy. After the hard times recently and the criticism this is a nice little sweetener."

"I tried to push hard," added Mikkelsen, who had been 28.8s back last night, but was just 3.2s back after the final test, "At th♒e same time though I wanted to go to Spain and GB with a good [championship points] position.

"I'm happy with my strategy."

Behind, Citroen'sไ Kris Meeke was a lonely fourth, 47.✤1 seconds further adrift, with Hayden Paddon fifth in his Hyundai, overhauling the other Citroen of Mads Ostberg in the penultimate test.

Dani Sordo recovered from hitting a stone and breaking a wheel rim in SS3 on Friday - that left him down in 13th -⛄ to climb back to seventh, leapfrogging on the final day Bryan Bouffier, Stephane Sarrazi🧜n and Ott Tanak in positions 8 through to 10. He also went quickest in SS8.

Citroen youngster Stephane Lefebvre finished just outside the points on his third outing with the DS 3 WRC, a spin at the end costi𓂃ng him the chance to steal tenth from Tanak.

Further back Martin Prokop was 12th and three-time World Rally Champion Sebastien Ogier came home in 15th under Rally 2, losing time with a puncture in SS3 Friday, before then having to retire on the road sect♓ion due to a gear shift problem. Ogier, however, was quickest in the Power Stage - more than 8.6s up on former F1 driver Robert Kubica.

Kubica and Hyundai's Thierry Neuville also fin൩ished under Rally 2. Kubica, who jointly held the overall lead with Ogier after SS1🧜, finished just outside the top-20, forced out on Saturday in SS5 when he had two punctures. The Pole was only carrying one spare. Neuville was one spot further back having retired on Friday after hitting a bridge just 1.2 km into the first test.

In the support categories, 🥀Julien Maurin took the WRC2 class victory in his Fiesta, 21.6s up on Esapekka Lappi's Skoda Fabia R5. Eric Camilli completed the WRC2 podium, with Craig Breen fourth and Teemu Suninen fifth.

Quentin Gilbert took the JWRC / WRC3 win to secure the Junior title, 37.8s up on Simone Tempestini - WRC3 onওly - and 1m 18.8s up on Terry Folb.

As for retirements, Hyundai fourth driver Kevin Abbring retired in the penultimate stage after going off the road. He had finished day one inꩵ second, before slipping back to fifth on Saturday. WRC2 runner Armin Kremer went out on Sunday as well, crꦅashing in SS7. He had been running third in class.

The World Rally Championship now resumes 💮at the end of the month with RallyꦕRACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada running from October 22-25

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