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Written by Rowan Horncastle
Entering the final stage of last weekend"s Rally Mexico with a 37.2-second lead, all Kris Meeke had to do to secure his fourth World Rally Championship win was get his Citroen C3 across the line. Simple, right? Well, this is rallying nothing is ever simple.With two corners and less than a kilometre of the 21.94km stage around Derramadero left, Kris went into a crested right-hander too hot, sending him spearing off the road, through a bush and into a car park as more than a few shouts of sacr bleu!" rang out at Citroen base camp.Disorientated and having biffed the rear end of a helpless VW Passat, Kris then decided to do a lap of the car park in some sort of dusty car park gymkhana. Having navigated his way around some parked cars, he located a C3-sized gap in the hedgerow and punctured his car through the shrubbery, and then back onto the road to cross the line. He finished with a 13.8 second lead over Ford"s Sebastien Ogier.
Date written: 13 Mar 2017
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ID: 7038
Entering the final stage of last weekend"s Rally Mexico with a 37.2-second lead, all Kris Meeke had to do to secure his fourth World Rally Championship win was get his Citroen C3 across the line. Simple, right? Well, this is rallying nothing is ever simple.With two corners and less than a kilometre of the 21.94km stage around Derramadero left, Kris went into a crested right-hander too hot, sending him spearing off the road, through a bush and into a car park as more than a few shouts of sacr bleu!" rang out at Citroen base camp.Disorientated and having biffed the rear end of a helpless VW Passat, Kris then decided to do a lap of the car park in some sort of dusty car park gymkhana. Having navigated his way around some parked cars, he located a C3-sized gap in the hedgerow and punctured his car through the shrubbery, and then back onto the road to cross the line. He finished with a 13.8 second lead over Ford"s Sebastien Ogier.
Date written: 13 Mar 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 7038
