Kris Meeke threw down the gauntlet to his Rally Guanajuato Mexico rivals by winning Friday morning’s opening dirt road stage to lead this third round of the FIA World Rally Championship.
Meeke, who triumphed at this third round of the FIA World Rally Championship in dramatic circumstances in 2017, topped the times through the 5.31km Llano Grande test in his Citroën C3 by 0.4sec.
Ice-cool Thierry Neuville kept calm in the heat of a furious fight to win Rally Sweden on Sunday afternoon and take the lead of the FIA World Rally Championship.