Ott Tänak retained his stranglehold on Arctic Rally Finland Powered by CapitalBox by winning two of Saturday morning’s three speed tests to stretch his overnight lead. The stages are incredibly fast and at that speed, having never seen the roads, the pace notes are never 100 per cent. Rovanperä moved ahead in the next test and the Yaris man held a 5.3sec advantage over Breen’s i20. On the fast stages we are fast, but when it’s technical we need to find some speed,” he explained. Breen survived a few encounters with snowbanks in the opener and felt his pace notes were slightly below par on the next two tests.

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