World Rally Championship leader Sebastien Ogier has crashed out of Rally Portugal on the opening stage of Friday afternoon's loop. Ogier was running first on the road in his M-Sport Ford Fiesta when he crashed midway through the Viana do Castelo test after sliding off the road. The five-time world champion appeared to clip a bank with the front-right of his Fiesta in the stage, then got off line onto loose gravel approaching the next left-handed corner and slid down a bank into a section of trees. Co-driver Julien Ingrassia retrieved the car's warning triangle as he and Ogier climbed from the Fiesta. M-Sport confirmed both Ogier and Ingrassia were OK but that the car would take no further...
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