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Thierry Neuville tackles Ford and Ogier: "It gets a little heavy, their tactics"
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Thierry Neuville perfectly accomplished his Sunday mission by winning, yesterday, the 5 bonus points of the ultimate Power Stage. "We drove absolutely," he exclaimed, pleased with himself, but was also upset about the attitude of Ogier and Ford.

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He has not yet digested his abandonment the day before while leading the Rally Turkey: "We deserved to win here, we had prepared very well.We were the strongest, but a mechanical element in decided otherwise, we win together and we lose together ... "

Less than twenty-four hours after a left front suspension spring was passed through the hood of his Hyundai, Thierry gave us the reasons for the technical failure that cost him very big points. "One element of the shock absorber has unscrewed with shocks, not the fault of Hyundai but of our subcontractor (Editor's note: the company Ext)."

In the end, despite his withdrawal, the Belgian is still doing well by losing only 10 units, less than half of his advantage which remains 23 units on Seb Ogier and now 13 on Ott Tanak: "This could have been worse indeed, thanks to Seb for his mistake, we can see that he was not focused on the images, and now M-Sport has allowed him to recover a point by sacrificing Evans, who is starting to get some. This shows that Seb is afraid of not being able to gain his own strength.They do us honor, and I am convinced that if it is lost for him, he will prefer to help his friend Tanak for me not to be a champion. "

For his part, Hayden Paddon (3rd) and Andreas Mikkelsen (5th) have not been of any help for our compatriot. "I was hoping they would push a bit further into the Power Stage to at least take points in Tanak, the Estonian called me a cuckold in Germany, but what about him here? scratch (Editor's note: The Estonian actually signed two) when Ogier and I spun on Friday night. "

Bitter, Thierry Neuville balance. But claims to have as many chances of being crowned at the end of the year as before the Turkish event: "75%, that has not changed, we will be in England, we are going to have trouble in Spain. Australia, we will be competitive there too, but because of the sweeping phenomenon there, I would prefer to go to the championship final with 5 points behind 5 and to open the road on Friday. "

We are not there yet. There are still three races, 90 points to hand out and we now know that none of the three drivers started in the title race will be crowned in Wales in three weeks.