High five – Podium joy for Andreas at Rally France

This was also the fourth podium of co-driver Ola Fløene’s career – and a valuable one at that. Second place in France sees Fløene, who only took his place at the side of Andreas Mikkelsen in the Polo R WRC at the fifth rally of the season, climb into third place overall in the Co-Drivers’ Championship. As such, the dream of finishing third overall is drawing ever closer for both Mikkelsen and Fløene: Andreas Mikkelsen is now 50 points clear of Mikko Hirvonen (M-Sport Ford). Should he still hold an advantage of at least 28 points after the coming Rally Spain (23-26 October), he will be out of reach in third place.

An absolutely outstanding Rally France for us! We have improved greatly on asphalt since the Rally Germany. We feel more at home than ever on this surface in the Polo. We prepared perfectly during the tests and developed a really good set-up. Friday was superb, as was Saturday – but we were unable to match the pace of my team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala. After that we focussed on securing second place. It feels absolutely awesome to have achieved that on asphalt. Not bad for a Norwegian, says Andreas.

Resultater Rally Frankrike:
1 Jari-Matti Latvala
2 Andreas Mikkelsen + 44.8
3 Kris Meeke + 1:05.3
4 Dani Sordo + 1:48.7
5 Mikko Hirvonen + 2:00.7
6 Elfyn Evans+ 3:00.9
7 Mads Østberg+ 3:02.5
8 Thierry Neuville +4:08.4