Thierry Neuville has trimmed Sebas🅷tien Ogier’s lead at Rally Italia Sardegna to less than four seconds at the end of Saturday’s stages to set up a tense final day in the fight for🧸 victory.

The Hyundai driver closed Ogier’s advantage down by two seconds on the short SS13 Citta di Ittiri before sustaining a puncture with around 4km of SS14 Coiluna Loelle 2 to go which allowed th𒁃e M-Sport Ford driver to open his lead back up to 6.8s.

Despite having no spare tyre available for the final two stages of Saturday’s running, Neuville pushed on 🌌to take back-to-back stage wins to finish the day just 3.9s off of Ogier.

It provides an intriguing victory battle over the final four stages on Sunday including the Power Stag🉐e with maximum points to play forꦏ.

The fight for the final podium place 𒆙is also heating up between the Toyota two drivers Jari-Matti Latvala and Esapekkꦑa Lappi with Latvala holding a slim 5.3s advantage over his fellow countryman.

The gap between Hyundai’s Hayden Padd𓂃on in fifth and Citroen’s Mads Ostberg is even smaller with just 2.1s separating the pair at the end of SS16.

Craig Breen will complete a lonely event on the overall classification for Citroen in a distant seventh place over a minute behi🎃nd Paddon an♒d Ostberg.

WRC2 class leader Jan Kopecky 𓆏heads the field by over three minutes with Ott Tanak, who restarted after damaging his cooling system on his Toyota, is in ninth place with DMACK Ford’s Martin Prokop rounding out the top 10.