Champion Ogier hands Volkswagen win in Wales

Already crowned drivers world champion, Sebastien Ogier delivered the constructors title to Volkswagen by winning the Rally of Britain yesterday. The Frenchman emerged from an epic struggle through the Welsh forest dirt tracks with Estonia’s Ford racer Otto Tanak holding a razor’s edge margin of just ten seconds. “I was watching my back the whole rally,” said Ogier afterwards. “He (Tanak) flew the whole weekend. Didn’t make a mistake. I had to be perfect to win this,” said Ogier, who clinched his fifth win of the season to claim a fourth straight constructors title for his German employers, having won a fourth straight world title himself two weeks ago in Catalonia. “What I did here I did for Volkswagen, without them I wouldn’t have won all this,” the 32-year-old said. Belgian Thierry Neuville of Hyundai was third, cementing his runners up spot in the season standings. — AFP