Ott Tanak has taken six seconds out of Sebastien Ogier’s overall lead at the 2018 World Rally Chꦚampionship season opener Rallye Monte-Carlo for a final day showd♕own.

The new Toyota driver has cut his former team-mate’s general classification lead to 33.5 sꦫeconds with Sunday’s final four stages to go to give himself a chance for victory and deny the defending WRC champion a fifth consecutive Rallye Monte-Carlo win.

Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville won the second run of the second stage Bayons – Breziers to provide some small redemption for his disastrous start to the event as the 2017 WR👍C runner-up climbed up to seventh place overall.

Ahead of Neuville, Latvala looks set for third place as he trails Toyota team-mate Tanak by almost one minute with Esapekka Lappi restoring the Jꦍapanese manufacturer’s provisional 2-3-4 having retaken fourth place from Citroen’s Kris﷽ Meeke after the Finn suffered an earlier puncture on SS11.

Meeke is just 1.6 seconds off Lappi but both might need to keep an eye on a late charge froဣm M-Spo✅rt Ford’s Elfyn Evans who is currently sixth but 20 seconds back having narrowly missed out on victory on SS13 to Neuville.

Bryan Bouffier (M♈-Sport Ford) has slipped to eighth place after Neuville’s stage win with Citroen’s Craig Breen in ninth place hav⛄ing returned to form on Saturday’s final stage.

Jan Kopec𓆏ky comfortably leads the WRC2 class by almost four minutes fromᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ fellow Skoda driver Kalle Rovanpera and also holds the final top ten spot.

Rallye Monte-Ca🍎rlo resumes on Sunday with a four-stage finale which concludes with the Power stage SS17 La Cabanette – C💦ol de Braus.