Hot favourite Ott Tänak headed a clean sweep of the podium places for Hyundai Motorsport after Friday morning’s action at Rally Estonia. You feel a super-hero on some of these stages, they are some of the fastest I’ve driven,” he said. Neuville won the final stage of the morning but was realistic about his chances of matching Tänak on home ground, admitting he lacked confidence in the faster sections. The Frenchman won one stage and was 15.5sec from the lead as competitors returned to the mid-leg service in Tartu. Lappi made changes to his car’s set-up in a bid to find more grip but the Finn lost a handful of seconds after overshooting a hairpin in the final stage. The running order of the leading drivers will be reversed before the stages are repeated this afternoon.

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