 Loeb had been told by Citroën boss Olivier Quesnel to push for the victory as a third place for Sordo would be enough to clinch the manufacturers title.After the first loop of Sunday's stages the gap was down to 1.4 seconds and a victory for Loeb was looking inevitable.Loeb was then initially handed a ten-second time penalty for a jump start at SS18  which meant that Latvala took a slender advantage of 2.2 seconds into the last stage.