Neuville leads opener at Rally Mexico
Thierry Neuville heads up the opening stage of Rally Mexico for Hyund𒁏a💮i from Toyota’s Ott Tanak with defending World Rally Champion Sebastian Ogier in a close third.
On the short 2.53km opener Monster Street🦩 Stage GTO, WRC points leader Neuville clinched victory by 1.9s seconds from Tanak with Ogier just one-tenth behind his former M-Sport teammate in third place on the early classification.
Jari-Matti Latvala and Esapekka✃ Lappi saw all three factory Toyota’s in the to✅p five with Andreas Mikkelsen in sixth place for Hyundai.
Thierry Neuville heads up the opening stage of Rall♑y Mexico for Hyundai from Toyota’s Ott Tanak with defending World Rally Champion Sebastian Ogier in a close third.
On the short 2.53km opener Monster Street Stage GTO, WRC points leader Neuville clinched victory by 1.✃9s seconds from Tanak with Ogier just one-tenth behind his 𝓡former M-Sport teammate in third place on the early classification.
Jari-Matti Latvala and Esapekka Lappi saw all three factory Toyota’s in the ☂top five with Andreas Mikkelsen in sixth place for Hyundai.
Rally Mexico shakedown topper Kris Meeke leads the Citroen charge havi🐠ng won the event 12 months a♕go with Hyundai’s Dani Sordo in eighth and M-Sport Ford’s Elfyn Evans in ninth.
WRC legend Sebastien Loeb is making his championship comeback with Citroen and started a conservative 10th pl𓂃ace on his debut in the new generation of premier cl🍸ass rally cars. Pontus Tidemand leads the WRC2 classification for Skoda ahead of teammate Kalle Rovanpera.
