WRC Great Britain: Sebastien Ogier ends season with a win

Three-time FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) champion Sebastien Ogier ended a dominant 2015 with a flourish by winning the season-ending Wales Rally GB for Volkswagen Motorsport ahead of Citroen's Kris Meeke and VW teammate Andreas Mikkelsen.

Ogier was largely untroubled in the lead of the event while Hyundai's Dani Sordo and Hayden Paddon took fourth and fifth in the last event with the current-spec i20 before an updated model based on the new production car. The Korean manufacturer has been testing the new car and hopes that having to comprise less to modify the new i20 for the WRC than the current one will lead to increased competitiveness against VW's dominant Polo WRC.

Elfyn Evans took sixth in the M-Sport Ford Fiesta while Mads Ostberg was seventh ahead of Citroen junior driver Stefane Lefebvre. Former F1 star Robert Kubica took his third points finish of the year - the same as last year - to take ninth ahead of Lorenzo Bertilini.

Ogier's teammate and closest competitor this year and the last, Jari-Matti Latvala, continued his erratic WRC form by crashing out of second place on just the second stage of the rally.

The new WRC season kicks off on the January 22-24 weekend next year with the Monte Carlo Rally and will feature an expanded calendar with 14 events on account of the inclusion of Rally China, which will be held from 9 to 11 September.