WRC: The first Hayden Paddon's victory

The World Rally Championship "WRC" had four stages so far and different from the first two steps (Monte Carlo and Sweden) where french Sebastian Ogier won, the last stage in Mexico the finnish and Ogier's team-mate Volkswagen Jari-Matti Latvala won, and Argentina was the turn of Hyundai's team new zealander to join this select group.

The Argentine rally was divided into 18 stages over four days, in a dry weather that is preferred by pilots. On the second day until stage 8, Jari Latvala led with a lead of ten seconds on Hayden and third placed Sebastian Ogier. On the third day all was well until stage 14 when Jari hit a rock, flipped the car and so missed the chance of the second straight win in the league, the better for Hayden that besides leader, now had an advantage of almost thirty seconds for the second placed Sebastian.

The fourth and final day was enough Hayden manage the lead, but on stage 17 Hayden's caution was so great that Sebastian Ogier took all the difference being less than a second behind the leader. Until the power stage (the last special of the day), Hayden rose again the difference in fourteen seconds to Sebastian, and so won the Argentine rally for the first time.
Remember that Andreas Mikelsen (Norway) Volkswagen was 3rd, Dani Sordo (Spain) Hyundai 4th, Mads Ostberg (Norway) Ford was the 5th and Thierry Neuville (Belgium) Hyundai in 6th.

Hayden Paddon (right) and ur codriver John Kennard (left), celebrate the victory at argentine rally. 
Photo: (Massimo Bettiol)

With these results Sebastian Ogier still leads handily the championship with 96 points, Hayden Paddon comes next with 57 points, Mads Ostberg 3 with 52 pts, Andreas Mikkelsen is the 4th 48 pts, Dani Sordo 5th 44 pts, Jari Latvala 6th 27 pts it is a bad place for a VW's driver, Ott Tanak 7th 24 pts, Thierry Neuville 8th 23 pts is another driver who has been doing a world championship short of what he can do, Stephane Lefbvre and Henning Solberg close the top 10 with 10 and 8 pts respectively.

The next World stage will be in Portugal from May 19th to 22th 2016.
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