S\u00e9bastien Ogier leads Rally Islas Canarias by 8.6 seconds after Friday\u2019s leg of action, with Oliver Solberg emerging as his closest rival.<\/p>\n
Ogier started Friday down in sixth place (albeit just 1.4s off the lead) following\u00a0the superspecial inside Gran Canaria Stadium, but immediately hit the front after the first full-length stage.<\/p>\n
Repeating the trick on SS4 (SS3 was cancelled due to badly\u00a0parked spectator cars), the reigning world champion extended his advantage to 5.9s as the Toyotas pulled clear of the rest.<\/p>\n
All that changed in the afternoon were the gaps between, and order of, those GR Yaris Rally1s.<\/p>\n
Solberg won the first stage in the afternoon by just a single\u00a0tenth over Ogier to jump from fourth to second place, ahead of team-mates Sami Pajari and Elfyn Evans.<\/p>\n
The Frenchman and the Swede continued to outpace the other Toyotas on SS6 with Ogier beating Solberg by 0.2s. Ogier was again fastest on SS7 (by a more emphatic two seconds) as Evans shuffled ahead of Pajari by just 1.3s.<\/p>\n
Pajari, however, responded on the superspecial that concluded the day, moving back into third by half a second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00e9bastien Ogier leads Rally Islas Canarias by 8.6 seconds after Friday\u2019s leg of action, with Oliver Solberg emerging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,205173,205174,213,87700,139135],"class_list":["post-397060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rally-islas-canarias","tag-rally-islas-canarias-2026","tag-sports","tag-wrc","tag-wrc-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}