January 23, 2015 – Sebastien Ogier ended Friday’s second leg of Rallye Monte Carlo with a comfortable lead after a thrilling fight with Sebastien Loeb ended with a mistake from the nine-time world champion.
The Frenchmen traded times in a topsy-turvy day through six stages in the mountains. Ogier had snatched the lead for the first time when Citroen’s Loeb, pushing hard to regain the initiative, hit a rock and broke his DS3’s rear left suspension.
It handed Ogier a 1min 45.4sec advantage in his Volkswagen Polo R over team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala, with Andreas Mikkelsen completing a 1-2-3 for the German squad after climbing from seventh this afternoon.
