Ogier Wins a Dramatic Acropolis Rally as Neuville's Double Puncture Costs Him the Lead
"The Greek gods finally supported me," Ogier said afterward. Neuville lost 53.5 seconds to a puncture on the second-to-last stage and still finished second.
Sebastien Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais won the Acropolis Rally Greece by 58.3 seconds over Thierry Neuville's Hyundai i20 N Rally1, in a weekend that stayed within eleven seconds through both Friday and Saturday before finally breaking open on the last day. Ogier took the lead by just 1.3 seconds after Sunday's opening stage — and then Neuville's rally unraveled on the penultimate stage, when a double rear puncture cost him 53.5 seconds he never got back.
"The Greek gods finally supported me! It was a long weekend, there was never a time to relax." — Sebastien Ogier
"The Greek gods finally supported me! It was a long weekend, there was never a time to relax," Ogier said after the finish, in what he described as his second Acropolis win. Neuville, for his part, was gracious in defeat: "Fair play to Ogier, he did an incredible race as well. We don't know what would have happened without the puncture."
Toyota's Takamoto Katsuta finished third, with M-Sport Ford's Josh McErlean fourth and Toyota's Sami Pajari fifth. In the championship, Elfyn Evans still leads the standings, but his cushion over Katsuta was cut to just seven points after this round — meaning a rally decided by a single stage-53 puncture also just tightened the entire 2026 title fight.
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