His Hyundai rival Ott Tänak initially held a slender 0.4sec advantage following Friday but the decision handed the lead back to Evans with a margin of exactly three seconds now separating the pair.
The decision was announced via a clerk of the course notification on Friday evening, upon receiving a request from Evans' Toyota team to consider the reallocation of the notional time he received for the morning’s interupted stage.
Upon further examination team-mate Sami Pajari and Adrien Fourmaux also received updated times, neither of which had an affect on the overall standings.
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