Quotes:
Jari-Matti Latvala (Team Principal)
“We are really happy with the performance today and to be leading the rally thanks to such impressive driving from Kalle here. Creating a 40-second lead over the first loop was pretty amazing when we normally see battles between tenths of a second. In the afternoon he took two spare tyres, as he wanted to play safe which was very wise and mature of him. He was still carrying nice speed. Sébastien has been doing a really good job as well in third place, and it’s still open for second place, even if Seb doesn’t need to attack for it for his own championship. Elfyn did a good consistent job also after his issue yesterday. Now let’s see what tomorrow brings.”

Sébastien Ogier (Driver car 1)
“This morning I was pretty consistent. Not extremely fast, but it was good enough to make our third place more secure from behind, which was the main target for the day. If we can finish on the podium tomorrow it will be another big step to the title. Kalle was extremely fast this morning and took a big lead, so well done to him for a very strong day. The afternoon loop was better for me. It’s always important to keep a bit of pressure on, we are not that far from second place. Tomorrow it will not be wise to take more risk but with many kilometres still to go, things can always happen. Those stages will be with all-new pacenotes for everybody and we recceed it mostly in the fog, so it won’t be easy.”

Elfyn Evans (Driver car 33)
“It was a quite OK day today and I enjoyed the driving to be honest, even if it’s quite difficult when you’re no longer in a proper fight. Still, we had a target to move into the best overall position possible and from that side the goal of the day was achieved. I don’t think there’s a chance to climb up any further providing those ahead don’t have any trouble now, but we want to try and bring those points home tomorrow and add to the tally in the Power Stage if we can.”

Kalle Rovanperä (Driver car 69)
“It was really enjoyable for us on the first loop of stages today. They were four difficult stages and I was a bit surprised that the time gaps were so big, but I also felt that we did a good job in the car. We also had a bit of a different tyre choice to the others and that was good for us: Overall I just had a bit more confidence on the hard tyres. For the second loop we made some setup changes to gain a bit of protection for the rough conditions, and we lost quite a bit of traction, but it was still quite good, and we were being wise and not doing anything stupid. There is still a long way to go to the end of the rally, so let’s see what we can do tomorrow.”

End of day three (Saturday):
1 Kalle Rovanperä/Jonne Halttunen (Toyota Yaris WRC) 2h36m52.8s
2 Ott Tänak/Martin Järveoja (Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC) +30.8s
3 Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (Toyota Yaris WRC) +40.2s
4 Dani Sordo/Candido Carrera (Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC) +2m09.4s
5 Adrien Fourmaux/Renaud Jamoul (Ford Fiesta WRC) +3m19.2s
6 Gus Greensmith/Chris Patterson (Ford Fiesta WRC) +3m35.0s
7 Elfyn Evans/Scott Martin (Toyota Yaris WRC) +5m51.9s
8 Marco Bulacia/Marcelo Der Ohannesian (Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo) +7m09.0s
9 Andreas Mikkelsen/Elliott Edmondson (Škoda Fabia Rally2 evo) +7m09.8s
10 Thierry Neuville/Martijn Wydaeghe (Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC) +7m47.6s
(Results as of 19:00 on Saturday, for the latest results please visit www.wrc.com)

What's next?
The final day of the rally is made up of three stages in total, including the longest of the rally: the 33.2 kilometres of Pyrgos. This runs bewteen two visits to the famous Tarzan test. The first will be 23.37 kilometres long and the shorter second run of 12.68 kilometres will host the rally-ending Power Stage.