polo r wrc

You voted Sebastien Ogier into second place in Crash.net's 2013 World Rally Driver of the Year poll.

Andreas Mikkelsen suffers second retirement of season, but remains upbeat

Jari-Matti Latvala: At the end of the short stage [SS13] the transmission gave a strange feeling and then in the second last stage it broke completely the front diff. On top of that we got a fire [at the end of SS14]. There was a fuel pipe leaking and we were lucky to come back here.

Sebastien Ogier: I was too quick coming into the corner and ploughed into the bank at quite a speed. This damaged the suspension at the front left so severely that Julien [Ingrassia - my co-driver] and I lost more than two minutes. We tried to complete the next special stage, but had to give up for safety reasons...

Andreas Mikkelsen: It is the first real asphalt rally of the year, and consists of many different types of asphalt

Sebastien Ogier notches up his fourth win of the season and the 11th of his WRC career in Sardinia

Sebastien Ogier wins Rally Italia Sardegna - 1 minute 16.8 seconds up on Thierry Neuville; Jari-Matti Latvala completes the podium ahead of Dani Sordo and Martin Prokop

Sebastien Ogier wins Rally Sweden with Sebastien Loeb second and Mads Ostberg third

Sebastien Ogier: I really had no idea how well we would fair...

Andreas Mikkelsen to join Sebastien Ogier and Jari-Matti Latvala and compete in a third Polo R WRC starting in Portugal