2015 Rally Italia Sardegna

The rally began with a surprising Martin Prokop winning the Super Special Stage of Cagliari, followed by Dani Sordo (penalized for false start) and Mikkelsen. On the second day, new surprise with Hayden Paddon winning the first Friday 3 sections, and at the end of SS 4 led the rally with 25.3 s lead over Latvala and Ogier on 27.5. In the remaining stages, Paddon controlled the pace, but a slight touch on the last stage reduced the advantage to only 8.8 s, now on Ogier who had exceeded his teammate. Dani Sordo was forced to leave after booting a wheel while Neuville suffered from problems such as turbo and handbrake and finished 6th. Meeke gave-up at SS 2 and Kubica did the same on the next.

It was necessary to reach the SS 17 and a spinning from Paddon for a VW take the rally lead. Ostberg was third, despite having traveled 20 km with a slow tyre leakage, having won 2 PEC before having new slow tyre leakage in the last SS. In this day Mikkelsen (lost a wheel) Sordo (lack of gas pressure), Kubica (3 holes and a stuck gearbox) and Tanak (gearbox jammed when he was 3rd place) dropped out while there were many hardships to Neuville (whipping-top, turbo and steering problems and 40s penalty) and Latvala (hole and crashed shock absorber for 2 sections). At the end of the day Ogier had a huge advantage over Paddon (2m13s) while Ostberg was 3 to 3m25s and Neuville 4th at 3m57s.

For the last day the attention was concentrated in the fight for the last podium spot between Ostberg and Neuville. An outwit from Ostberg (dropped to 5) delivered the 3rd to the Belgian. The power-stage was completely dominated by VW: Ogier, Latvala and Mikkelsen.

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Day	Stage number	Stage name	Length	Stage winner	Car No.	Team	Time	Rally leader
11 Jun	SS1	Citta' Di Cagliari	2.50 km	Martin Prokop Jan Tománek	21	Jipocar Czech National Team	2:23.7	Martin Prokop Jan Tománek
12 Jun	SS2	Grighine Sud 1	26.31 km	Hayden Paddon John Kennard	20	Hyundai Motorsport N	18:15.0	Hayden Paddon John Kennard
	SS3	Grighine Nord 1	18.34 km	Hayden Paddon John Kennard	20	Hyundai Motorsport N	13:48.1
	SS4	Montiferru 1	14.41 km	Hayden Paddon John Kennard	20	Hyundai Motorsport N	9:47.4
	SS5	Sagama 1	2.58 km	Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia	1	Volkswagen Motorsport	2:09.6
	SS6	Sagama 2	2.58 km	Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila	2	Volkswagen Motorsport	2:07.0
	SS7	Sinis - Mont' E Prama	14.08 km	Ott Tänak Raigo Mõlder	6	M-Sport World Rally Team	7:48.7
	SS8	Grighine Sud 2	22.45 km	Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila	2	Volkswagen Motorsport	15:20.9
	SS9	Grighine Nord 2	18.34 km	Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia	1	Volkswagen Motorsport	13:29.7
	SS10	Montiferru 2	14.41 km	Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila	2	Volkswagen Motorsport	9:28.9
13 Jun	SS11	Ittiri Arena 1	1.40 km	Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia	1	Volkswagen Motorsport	1:28.8
	SS12	Monti di Ala' 1	22.49 km	Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila	2	Volkswagen Motorsport	13:51.2
	SS13	Coiluna-Loelle 1	36.69 km	Mads Østberg Jonas Andersson	4	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT	24:04.1
	SS14	Monte Lerno 1	42.22 km	Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila	2	Volkswagen Motorsport	28:37.4
	SS15	Ozieri-Ardara	7.23 km	Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila	2	Volkswagen Motorsport	4:00.9
	SS16	Ittiri Arena 2	1.40 km	Thierry Neuville Nicolas Gilsoul	7	Hyundai Motorsport	1:30.0
	SS17	Monti di Ala' 2	22.49 km	Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia	1	Volkswagen Motorsport	13:38.9	Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia
	SS18	Coiluna-Loelle 2	36.69 km	Mads Østberg Jonas Andersson	4	Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT	23:51.7
	SS19	Monte Lerno 2	42.22 km	Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia	1	Volkswagen Motorsport	28:01.5
14 Jun	SS20	Olmedo monte Baranta 1	11.13 km	Hayden Paddon John Kennard	20	Hyundai Motorsport N	8:10.7
	SS21	Cala Flumini 1	11.77 km	Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia	1	Volkswagen Motorsport	7:36.3
	SS22	Olmedo monte Baranta 2	11.13 km	Jari-Matti Latvala Miikka Anttila	2	Volkswagen Motorsport	7:56.3
SS23	Cala Flumini 2 (Power Stage)	11.77 km	Sébastien Ogier Julien Ingrassia	1	Volkswagen Motorsport	7:15.9