Ott Tänak lived up to his billing as pre-event favourite to lead the FIA World Rally Championship’s restart event at Rally Estonia on Saturday night. Estonia became the 33rd country to stage a championship round as the series reached a landmark 600th event since it began in 1973. Tänak was only fourth after being hampered by a soft tyre, but charged to the front on the next stage and built a 6.8sec mid-leg margin over Breen. The repeated roads were rougher this afternoon, but Tänak doubled his lead before throttling back, content to have won three of today’s 10 stages. “This afternoon, especially, the middle stages were really rough,” he said. “You feel a super-hero on some of these stages, they are some of the fastest I’ve driven,” he said. The Frenchman, driving a Toyota Yaris, won two stages but was hindered by two tyres delaminating and a final test stall.
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