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Latvala wins in France

His maiden asphalt victory

By Franck Drui

5 October 2014 - 13:15

Jari-Matti Latvala secured his maiden asphalt victory when he won Rallye de France Alsace on Sunday.

The Finn led round 11 of the FIA World Rally Championship for all but one of the 18 special stages and headed Volkswagen Polo R team-mate Andreas Mikkelsen by 44.8sec. Third went to Kris Meeke in a Citroen DS3, a further 20.5sec behind.

Championship leader Sébastien Ogier won the rally-closing live TV Power Stage to take maximum bonus points in a Polo R. Elfyn Evans claimed two points for second in a Ford Fiesta RS with Latvala taking one.

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Pos.	#	Driver	Time	Diff / Prev	Diff / 1st
1.	2	LATVALA	2:38:19.1
2.	9	MIKKELSEN	2:39:03.9	+44.8	+44.8
3.	3	MEEKE	2:39:24.4	+20.5	+1:05.3
4.	8	SORDO	2:40:07.8	+43.4	+1:48.7
5.	5	HIRVONEN	2:40:19.8	+12.0	+2:00.7
6.	6	EVANS	2:41:19.9	+1:00.1	+3:00.8
7.	4	OSTBERG	2:41:21.6	+1.7	+3:02.5
8.	7	NEUVILLE	2:42:27.5	+1:05.9	+4:08.4
9.	20	BOUFFIER	2:42:32.0	+4.5	+4:12.9
10.	21	PROKOP	2:44:26.6	+1:54.6	+6:07.5
11.	11	KUIPERS	2:46:00.3	+1:33.7	+7:41.2
12.	22	MAURIN	2:46:37.9	+37.6	+8:18.8
13.	1	OGIER	2:46:55.2	+17.3	+8:36.1
14.	77	ABBRING	2:48:16.9	+1:21.7	+9:57.8
15.	39	GILBERT	2:48:56.8	+39.9	+10:37.7
16.	12	PROTASOV	2:48:57.5	+0.7	+10:38.4
17.	35	SOUSA	2:49:04.9	+7.4	+10:45.8
18.	36	CHARDONNET	2:51:04.1	+1:59.2	+12:45.0
19.	93	DUMAS	2:52:35.0	+1:30.9	+14:15.9
20.	75	PONS	2:53:08.0	+33.0	+14:48.9