Rally of Turkey stage guides - Sunday

Day three in Turkey starts at 0757hrs, when the first car leaves the overnight parc ferme in Pendik. Ahead lie 114.60 competitive kilometres arranged over six special stages.

In the morning, crews will tackle a loop of three consecutive stages in the countryside east of the Service Park before heading back for a 30-minute midday service. In the afternoon crews will repeat the same loop before a 10-minute end of rally service and the finish podium in Pendik at 1611hrs.

Here are our wrc.com stage notes for Sunday's stages. Under the summaries you'll find our list of essential website links to help you follow the rally via the wrc.com live results service.

SS18/SS21: Deniz. 16.76km
Starts by a dam and runs largely through open countryside. The road is flowing and quite quick at the start, then becomes more twisty and technical in the mid-section. Deniz features lots of surface changes, from smooth gravel to rougher sections strewn with sharp rocks. The stage also features some stretches with a soil base. During the recce there were some dried ruts here. If it rains it will be muddy and extremely slippery on the hard-compound tyres.

SS19/SS22: Mudarli. 21.32km
A stage of two halves. the first part is twisty with many surfaces changes, from light to heavy gravel to clay. Then, from a hairpin-left at 12.7km, the stage becomes wider and more flowing on a harder packed gravel base. It’s very fast from here on. The stage won't clean much in the first half but will in the faster section. If it rains on Sunday then the soil base here will be just as muddy as Deniz.

SS20/SS23: Ballica. 19.22km
Another open road and another very fast stage, Ballica sweeps through a valley over numerous huge blind crests. It has a lot in common with Halli - run on Friday as SS4/SS8. Getting the right line over the crests is critical here - so accurate pace notes are essential. There's a two kilometre section of asphalt in the middle of the stage, other than that the surface is generally smoother gravel, so it will clean.

Source: WRC