The nine-time world champion benefitted from an advantageous road position on the dusty gravel stages, but once again showed his class to win all three stages of the morning loop in his M-Sport Ford.
The 48-year-old, partnered by Isabelle Galmiche, became the oldest driver to lead a WRC event and eclipsed the record perviously held by 1979 world champion Bjorn Waldegard set in 1991.
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