Toyota's Ott Tanak completed a hat-trick of World Rally Championship event wins on Rally Turkey, capitalising on the retirement of title rivals Sebastien Ogier of M-Sport and Hyundai's Thierry Neuville.
Many of the top World Rally Championship cars retired in one of the toughest rallies in recent memory, as they returned to Turkey for the first time since 2010.
Tanak had seemed well out of the victory battle and was as low as ninth on Friday, but surged through the field to capitalise in the tricky conditions. He then inherited the lead as Andreas Mikkselsen hit trouble on Saturday afternoon.
Once Tanak was established in the lead on Yesilbelde, SS11, Toyota confirmed it would use team orders to keep him ahead of Jari-Matti Latvala, who started the event seventh in the championship while Tanak is thick in the fight for a first WRC drivers' title.
Tanak moves into second in the standings with the victory, 13 points behind Neuville and 11 ahead of Ogier, who loses second. Toyota now leads the manufacturers' standings.
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