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WRC Sardinia: Dominant Tanak ends victory drought, Rovanpera fifth

The 2019 world champion claimed nine of the 21 stages across four gruelling days, navigating through Sardinia’s famous rough gravel stages in scorching temperatures to score his first win since last February's Arctic Rally Finland by 1m03.2s from M-Sport Ford driver Craig Breen.

Following Elfyn Evans’s early exit from the lead due to a water leak on Friday, Tanak became embroiled in a fight with Toyota’s Esapekka Lappi. Tanak briefly claimed the lead after Stage 4, before dropping 0.7s adrift of the Finn heading into Saturday.

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