Rallying: Vatanen lands third stage win

Saturday 18 January 2003 01:00 GMT

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The former world rally champion Ari Vatanen won the 15th stage of the Dakar Rally yesterday, with Hiroshi Masuoka keeping his hopes of overall victory alive.

Vatanen completed the 477-kilometre (298 miles) stage across Egypt between Luxor and Abu Rish in 4hr 6min 51sec to beat Miki Biasion by more than six minutes and claim his third stage win.

Masuoka came fifth, one place ahead of his Mitsubishi team-mate, Stéphane Peterhansel, to close the gap on the race leader to 25 minutes 50 seconds with two stages remaining.

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