Ogier loses Mexico Power Stage bonus points
Reigning World Rally Championship champion Sebastien Ogier has had his lead in the 2018 standings cut to four points, having been stripped of the Power Stage 🏅bonus points he won in Rally Mexico.
Ogie🃏r, who reclaimed the lead of the 2018 WRC with a comfortable outright victory in Mexico - his second win of the year - was handed a 10 second time penalty for cutting a chicane on the final stage of the rally.
Reigning World Rally Championship champion Sebastien Ogier has had his lead in the 2018 standings cut to four poi🅠nts, having been stripped of the Power Stage bonus points he won in Rally Mexico.
Ogier, who reclaimed the lead of the 2018 WRC with a comfortable outright victory in Mexico - his second win of the year - was handed a 10 second time penalty for cutti💜ng a chicane on the final s✤tage of the rally.
A stewards’ report said the M-Sport driver “hit the first two-block element” of the chicane “with the front-right side of the car” before touching “the last element” as he exiteܫd the chicane.
The five-time WRC champion had finished second on the Power Stage behind Toyota’s Ott Tanak, ﷺcollecting four bonus points, but the time penalty relegated him to seventh.
It means Ogier, who had opened u👍p a nine-point lead in the championship le⛄aderboard, now leads Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville by just four points.
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