Neuville remains leader of Acropolis Rally Greece as the fight tightens

Neuville remains leader of Acropolis Rally Greece as the fight tightens

28th June 2026 0 By Kamron Kent

Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville continues to lead the World Rally Championship’s Acropolis Rally Greece as Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier tightened the gap.

Feature image credit: Jaanus Ree // Red Bull Content Pool

Neuville remains as the Rally leader, having taken the lead on Friday, but the Belgian ended his day wounded both physically and on the clock.

The 2024 world champion held a near 10-second advantage going into Saturday over Ogier. By the end of the day, the Belgian saw his advantage slashed to 4.1 seconds over the Toyota nine-time world champion.

This was not helped by the former world champion hitting a dirt bank on the final stage of the day. Just before the finish, the Hyundai driver ran wide at a left-hand corner and tapped the rear of the car, which pulled the car in and ripped the bumper off.

Neuville was able to drag his car back to service, but he had lost power steering on the way back.

Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta rounded out the top three, two minutes and 17 seconds away from Neuville, with Ogier ahead in second.

But that wasn’t the only problem on Saturday. Both Sami Pajari and Adrien Fourmaux, for Toyota and Hyundai, respectively, slipped on the 10th stage of the weekend as they lost grip on the slippery gravel conditions.

Trouble continued for Fourmaux as he later suffered a puncture, dropping him from third to sixth on the 12th stage of the weekend. Toyota’s championship leader, Elfyn Evans, endured the same fate on the final stage of the day, dropping his overall position from fifth to seventh.

So, who finished where heading into Super Sunday?

2026 Acropolis Rally Greece: The full WRC stage guide and times

Day three leaderboard:

  1. Thierry Neuville, Hyundai – 2hr 40m 18.7s
  2. Sebastien Ogier, Toyota +4.1s
  3. Takatmoto Katsuta, Toyota +2m 17s
  4. Adrien Fourmaux, Hyundai +3m 0.6s
  5. Joshua McErlean, M-Sport Ford +3m 1.6s
  6. Sami Pajari, Toyota +4m 38.3s
  7. Elfyn Evans, Toyota +4m 43.1s
  8. Dani Sordo, Hyundai +5m 17.8s
  9. Andreas Mikkelsen, WRC2 +5m 54.6s
  10. Robert Virves, WRC2 +6m 8.5s
  11. Martins Sesks, M-Sport Ford +6m 25.4s

Toyota’s Oliver Solberg, and M-Sport Ford’s Jon Armstrong and Jourdan Serderidis finished the day 21st, 23rd and 35th overall.  

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Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.

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Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.

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