Latvala keeps his lead after day 2 in Sweden and increases the lead to over 23 seconds. Hirvonen keeps the battle on but doesn’t seem to be able to catch Latvala and could only watch his fellow country man’s pace. Petter Solberg is third and looks comfortable keeping a good paces and looking into another fine finish for Ford this year. Otsberg has been 4th all day and Russian Novikov is looking good in 5th while Loeb jumped into 6th after battling all day with Hening Solberg. Patrik Sandell, Martin Prokop and BRYNILDSEN complete the top 10 while VW due Ogier and IRC champion Mikkelson are 11th and 12th respectively and impressively on the Skoda S2000 cars. Arabs Nasser Al-Attiyah and Yazeed AlRajhi lay 21st and 25th respectively.
Overall after SS18
Overall
| Pos | No | Driver | Time | Diff Prev |
Diff 1st |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 3 | J. LATVALA | M | 2:30:08.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 2. | 2 | M. HIRVONEN | M | 2:30:31.0 | +23.0 | +23.0 |
| 3. | 4 | P. SOLBERG | M | 2:30:59.4 | +28.4 | +51.4 |
| 4. | 15 | M. ØSTBERG | 2:31:10.5 | +11.1 | +1:02.5 | |
| 5. | 6 | E. NOVIKOV | M | 2:32:21.1 | +1:10.6 | +2:13.1 |
| 6. | 1 | S. LOEB | M | 2:33:05.5 | +44.4 | +2:57.5 |
| 7. | 10 | H. SOLBERG | 2:33:10.4 | +4.9 | +3:02.4 | |
| 8. | 52 | P. SANDELL | 2:34:39.8 | +1:29.4 | +4:31.8 | |
| 9. | 21 | M. PROKOP | 2:34:42.4 | +2.6 | +4:34.4 | |
| 10. | 64 | E. BRYNILDSEN | 2:35:16.7 | +34.3 | +5:08.7 | |
| 11. | 60 | S. OGIER | 2:36:02.1 | +45.4 | +5:54.1 | |
| 12. | 62 | A. MIKKELSEN | 2:36:14.9 | +12.8 | +6:06.9 | |
| 13. | 18 | T. NEUVILLE | 2:37:46.1 | +1:31.2 | +7:38.1 | |
| 14. | 33 | P. ANDERSSON | S | 2:38:03.7 | +17.6 | +7:55.7 |
| 15. | 12 | A. ARAUJO | 2:40:40.2 | +2:36.5 | +10:32.2 | |
| 16. | 32 | C. BREEN | S | 2:41:02.5 | +22.3 | +10:54.5 |
| 17. | 17 | P. VAN MERKSTEIJN | 2:41:09.4 | +6.9 | +11:01.4 | |
| 18. | 68 | M. PAJUNEN | 2:41:31.0 | +21.6 | +11:23.0 | |
| 19. | 49 | P. TIDEMAND | S | 2:42:36.0 | +1:05.0 | +12:28.0 |
| 20. | 8 | M. SOLOWOW | 2:42:46.6 | +10.6 | +12:38.6 | |
| 21. | 7 | N. AL ATTIYAH | M | 2:43:23.8 | +37.2 | +13:15.8 |
| 22. | 65 | A. GRØNDAL | 2:45:14.3 | +1:50.5 | +15:06.3 | |
| 23. | 31 | H. PADDON | S | 2:48:10.6 | +2:56.3 | +18:02.6 |
| 24. | 70 | J. HAUGOM | 2:50:14.7 | +2:04.1 | +20:06.7 | |
| 25. | 36 | Y. AL RAJHI | S | 2:51:59.3 | +1:44.6 | +21:51.3 |
| 26. | 67 | H. WENG | 2:53:26.8 | +1:27.5 | +23:18.8 | |
| 27. | 71 | B. VANAGAS | 2:54:50.8 | +1:24.0 | +24:42.8 | |
| 28. | 77 | K. BURGER | 2:55:36.8 | +46.0 | +25:28.8 | |
| 29. | 69 | M. GUSTAFSSON | 2:57:06.2 | +1:29.4 | +26:58.2 | |
| 30. | 79 | F. LARSEN | 3:01:32.6 | +4:26.4 | +31:24.6 |