New Zealander Hayden Paddon (Hyundai i20 WRC) confirmed the leadership assumed yesterday and won Rally Argentina, the fourth round of the season and the first that does not have a Volkswagen as the winner.
Despite a gear-shifting problem in his Hyundai, Paddon made it back to his first top-flight rally win and the first win for a New Zealander in 43 years of the World Rally.
Since 2014 he has competed in the World Rally Championship with the official Hyundai team and on this fourth date of the season he gave his first great celebration to the South Korean brand.
Paddon led the championship leader, Sébastien Ogier (Volkswagen Polo R WRC) by 14 seconds, while third was his teammate, the Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen, who finished 1:05 minutes behind the leader after the four days played in the mountains. Cordoba.
In this way, Ogier, winner of the first two rounds of the season in Monte Carlo and Sweden, could not meet his old outstanding debt, which is to triumph on the only South American date on the world calendar. (EFE).
Paddon wins in Argentina and breaks the hegemony of Volkswagen in the season
