Meeke masters another WRC shakedown for Toyota

29th March 2019, 10:27am
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Kris Meeke claimed his third shakedown victory of the season on a sun-kissed warm-up to the Tour de Corse Rally. The Briton was quickest through the 5.39km Sorbo Ocagnano test by 0.9sec from Sébastien Ogier’s Citroën C3. Meeke’s Toyota Yaris team-mate and championship leader, Ott Tänak, was a further 0.5sec behind in third. Meeke posted the three fastest times of the morning on the dry asphalt. His opening run was the benchmark, until he shaved a tenth from it in his third and final pass. “Unfortunately there are no points for shakedown, which is a real shame as I have been fastest on three of them this year!” Meeke joked. “It felt good this morning and I have to try to carry that confidence and translate it through to the rally, that’s the important part. We tried a different setting on the final run and it still felt very good, so we have two nice options for the rally. “It was a different damper which offers a different type of set-up. Both seemed to work quite well, and with the different characteristics of this rally I think we can use that,” he added. Dani Sordo was the leading Hyundai i20 driver in fourth, 2.2sec off the pace. Jari-Matti Latvala ensured a third Yaris in the top five, while Elfyn Evans completed the top six in a Ford Fiesta. The leading times were:

POSITION	DRIVER	CAR	TIME
1.	Kris Meeke	Toyota Yaris	3min 46.7sec
2.	Sébastien Ogier	Citroën C3	+ 0.9sec
3.	Ott Tänak	Toyota Yaris	+ 1.4sec
4.	Dani Sordo	Hyundai i20	+ 2.2sec
5.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Toyota Yaris	+ 2.3sec
6.	Elfyn Evans	Ford Fiesta	+ 2.5sec
7.	Esapekka Lappi	Citroën C3	+ 2.7sec
8.	Sébastien Loeb	Hyundai i20	+ 2.8sec
9.	Thierry Neuville	Hyundai i20	+ 3.4sec
10.	Teemu Suninen	Ford Fiesta	+ 4.6sec

We have a big job checking recce videos to get our Pacenotes right for the new stages so you might as well watch a video too! Here’s our onboard from shakedown this morning, it’s going to be a busy weekend #KM5 pic.twitter.com/wiWJQTZ0Ie
— krismeeke.com (@krismeeke) March 28, 2019

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