Meeke leads Rallye Monte Carlo

After the opening two stages of the 2016 Rallye Monte Carlo, Kris Meeke leads the event in his Citroen DS3.

Sebastien Ogier won the opening stage in his Volkswagen Polo WRC but Meeke fought back in the second stage, beating the Frenchman by 11 seconds to hold a 6.9 second lead overnight.  Andreas Mikkelsen (VW Polo) sits in third place, Thierry Neuville (Hyundai i20) is fourth and his team mate, Hayden Paddon is fifth.

The rally didn’t start well for the third Volkswagen driver, Jari-Matti Latvala. At the end of SS2 he told WRC.com, “We hit something on the first proper icy place. Suddenly we started to slide and we hit a stone or something. I thought we had damaged the suspension so I backed off. We'll get back to service. It's okay." He finished the day in seventh place, 38.7 seconds adrift of Meeke.

WRC Rallye Monte Carlo
Overall lead after SS2

1. Meeke, 25:32.1
2. Ogier, +6.9
3. Mikkelsen, +13.1
4. Neuville, +11.4
5. Paddon, +3.5
6. Ostberg, +0.4
7. Latvala, +3.4
8. Kubica, +7.1
9. Lefebvre, +2.8
10. Sordo, +3.2

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