Jari-Matti Latvala starts day 3 with a new stage victory. The Ford manufacture driver pushing again to the limit as set the best stage time with 7.6 seconds faster than his competitor Hirvonen who is fourth. Second time in stage 19 Lesjofors 15 km is Mads Ostberg with 3 seconds delay.
Results after SS 19:
1. J. Latvala 2:39:18.3
2. M. Hirvonen +30.6
3. P. Solberg +56.1
4. M. Ostberg +1:05.5
5. E. Novikov +2:21.2
6. S. Loeb +3:09.6
7. H. Solberg +3:25.4
8. P. Sandell +4:47.7

Latvala comments: "It gives a bit more of a relaxed feeling now. I knew that if he was going to come back, he was going to come back on the first one, so that's where I needed to be quick."
Hirvonen comments: "I was not confident at all and had a couple of big slides, and it's very slippery and was a narrow road. I took it steady, I didn't want to make a mistake when I didn't have a good feeling. We did some changes to the car just to see if we could save tyres a bit more and it wasn't so good. Better to be here than over there [off the road]."
Ostberg comments: "I tried to push now but it's very, very difficult conditions. It seems like a lot of drivers have gone off the road so there's no clean line for me to follow. We did a clean run and I just hope it's good enough."
P. Solberg comments: "It's not too bad, but I lost everything at the end. We just have to keep on pushing, that's it."
Evgeny Novikov comments about the battle with Sebastien Loeb: "I won't let him catch us today, for sure. We will go flat-out. It's fifth position or nothing, that's for sure."
Loeb comments: "There was too much snow in the stage, I couldn't get a really good rhythm. It was too slippery. I tried to stay on the road. I think he will stay in front."