Ott Tanak and Martin Järveoja completed Saturday’s six stages with a healthy 36 second lead over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin with just the super special stage still to run.
The championship leaders, Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe stormed through the field from 15th overall to seventh to provisionally earn four of the six points they need to secure their and Hyundai’s first Driver’s and Co-Driver’s Championships.
Sebastian Ogier and Vincent Landais are currently in third, followed by Adrien Fourmaux and Alex Coria in the Ford Puma.
Takamoto Katsuta and Aaron Johnston are fifth after spinning in stage 12, dropping out of the podium fight.
Grégoire Munster/Louis Louka are sixth.
In WRC2, Nikolay Gryazin and Konstantin Aleksandrov are safe in the lead with Sami Pajari and Enni Mälkönen comfortable in a championship-winning second.
