Next up for you is BBC coverage of Round 12 of the 1998 World Rally Championship, the penultimate round of the season Rally Australia. Going into the WRC's annual trip down under Carlos Sainz still lead the drivers championship but only just after Tommi Makinen had closed the gap dramatically with victory last time out in San Remo just 2 points separated the Spaniard and Finn. But Sainz and Makinen who had won the event and sealed his first World Title in the wet and wild 1996 running of this event still had Colin McRae to think about but the Scot who had won down under twice in 1994 and 1997 desperately needed to make it a hat trick of Australia wins as he was 8 points adrift in third. As ever Tiff Needell and Mark James are your guides for this highly dramatic and controversial rally,
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