Ogier closes in on WRC title with Rally Monza lead

The opening loop of three stages began with a stage win for Ogier by 8.3 seconds, pushing his Toyota Yaris past Hyundai’s overnight pacesetter Dani Sordo to the top of the leaderboard.
Sordo’s priority is to defend Hyundai’s slender seven-point lead in the manufacturers’ championship, and he dug deep to take back five seconds on the next stage but could offer little resistance to Evans, who won …Keep reading