Sebastien Ogier has continued to build his lead at Rallye Monte-Carlo with a 40-second adva🐻ntage over new Toyota sig🍰ning Ott Tanak.

Defending World Rally Champion Ogier claimed the overnight lead with victories on the pair of opening stage wins and has maintained his momen♐tum with a further win on SS4 Roussieux. As a result, the M-Sport Ford driver has stretched out his lead to 40.4 seconds on new challenger for Toyota Ta﷽nak who jumped up to second place with victory on SS5 Vaumeilh – Claret 1.

Andreas Mikkelsen, who held second overall after SS2, is out of the running at Rallye Monte-Carlo after suffering an alternator 🐠issue with his Hyundai i20 WRC machine on SS4. Mikkelsen’s Hyundai team-mate Dani Sordo briefly held second place before slipping to third at Friday’s first service park.

Esapekka Lappi has kept himself in contention for Toyota in fourt🌌h place just over a minute off of Ogier with team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala 12 seconds off hi𒊎m in fifth place.

Kris Meeke continues to lead the Citroen c🍃harge in sixth place while he holds a useful cushion on M-Sport Ford’s Bryan Bouffier.

After initial issues on the Thursday night stages both Elfyn Evans (M-Sport Ford) and Thierry Neuville (Hyun🀅dai) have begun to climb the leaderboard into eighth and ninth respectively with Craig Breen completing the top ten after a tyre mix-up with his Citroen squad.