Hyundai's Thierry Neuville, current leader of the FIA World Rally Drivers' Championship with two rounds to go, talks to Peter Windsor about the fine balance between scoring points and raw pace. Peter details the fog-shrouded SS11 on the recent Rally of Chile, which Neuville won by five seconds from Toyota's Kally Rovanpera, and also asks Neuville about recent comments made by Toyota's Sébestien Ogier re Neuville's view of the championship leader having to "clean" the roads on Day One of the three-day WRC events. Thierry also looks ahead to the October 17-20 Central European Rally - effectively his home event - and looks back on his early years, when he befriended another talented Belgian - the former McLaren F1 driver, Stoffel Vandoorne.
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