Andreas Mikkelsen and Thierry Neuville head into the final day of the Monte Carlo Rally split by just 12secs, their rally-long fight gaining new importance as they climbed to second and third. On a day of disparate strategies and risky gambles in the differing conditions, both Mikkelsen and Neuville would adopt alternative tyre choices over the course of the day in an effort to spur their chances of making progress. Mikkelsen set the tone by running with studded tyres through the morning loop, a move that lost him a minute on the mostly dry SS9, only for him to win the icy SS10 by a mammoth 44secs. Inspiring Neuville and several others to adopt a similar strategy on the second loop, his...
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