While Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo maintained their one-two positions at the head of the leaderboard, the battle for sixth raged on between Matthew Wilson and the chasing Kimi Raikkonen.
Raikkonen began the day sixth, 19sec ahead of Wilson, but two mistakes on the opening stage (15) allowed the Stobart Ford driver to steal the position.
Wilson was quicker again on SS16 but on Dhrontal Raikkonen bit back, completing 1.6sec quicker to narrow the gap to 5.3sec with just one vineyard stage remaining.