Toyota’s reigning world champion Sebastien Ogier won the Acropolis Rally Greece on Sunday after Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville suffered a double puncture on the penultimate stage.
Nine-time world champion Ogier, with co-driver Vincent Landais, finished 58.3 seconds clear of Belgian Neuville with Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta coming in a distant third.
Toyota’s championship leader Elfyn Evans finished seventh on the road but was later moved up to fifth after Josh McErlean and Adrien Fourmaux were handed one-minute penalties and demoted for not having seatbelts fully fastened while their cars were moving.
That gifted Evans four extra points and left him 11 clear of Katsuta after eight of 14 rounds. Frenchman Ogier is third overall, 37 points off the lead.
The win was Ogier’s 69th in the World Rally Championship and his second of the season, and he scored maximum points with a final Power stage and Super Sunday win.
