Stage by stage that Monday afternoon, Sainz could only watch as he bled valuable seconds to his team-mate. The game was on, and with four Pirellis under him again, McRae wasted no time in clawing back the deficit. And McRae picked up a puncture, losing all of his Hamsterly gains and more besides he emerged more than a minute behind Sainz, the new leader. The behemoth test of Pundershaw was next – all 37 miles of it. But reality soon cut in on the first forest stage over the 17 miles of Hamsterly at dawn on the Monday, McRae scalped an astonishing 28 seconds out of the next-best competitor to storm from third into a lead of almost half a minute. The Mitsubishis of Tommi Makinen and Kenneth Eriksson set the pace on the opening stages of ‘spectator Sunday’.
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