Thierry Neuville will take a lead of 4.9 seconds into the second full day of Rally Sweden, the second round of the 2018 World Rally Championship.
Neuville heads his team-mates Andreas Mikkelsen and Hayden Paddon, meaning Hyundai is currently locking out the podium positions.
Neuville and Mikkelsen held a one-two into Friday afternoon, split by 3.7s, the gap fluctuated but Mikkelsen ended the day just under five seconds adrift of Neuville.
Esapekka Lappi was in contention for the rally lead until he went off the road on the second stage of the afternoon and dropped to seventh.
Paddon took third place on the final stage of the afternoon, winning the second pass through Hof-Finnskog and Torsby, which will be run as the power stage on Sunday.
This demoted Craig Breen to fourth place after he initially jumped from fifth to third with back-to-back stage wins.
His Citroen team-mate Mads Ostberg sits in fifth, just 0.6s behind Breen, and a further half a second off the final podium position.
Teemu Suninen is the highest-placed Fiesta driver in sixth position, with his fellow countryman and former WRC2 rival Lappi in seventh ahead of his Toyota team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala and Ott Tanak, who continued to struggle running second and third on the road.
Kris Meeke occupies the final position in the top 10.
However, Sebastien Ogier was the main driver to suffer with an overall time, nearly three minutes slower than the rally leader Neuville. He ran first on the road in each of the day’s seven stages. He will start second on the road tomorrow.
His team-mate Elfyn Evans is 11th, he jumped Ogier on the final stage of Friday for that position. He initially fell back due to a puncture in the morning.
