Motorsport: Top 10 standing for McErlean and Treacy in Portugal 

It was a hard day's competition for the Irish pair. 

The Irish crew of Kilrea's Josh McErlean and Killeagh's Eoin Treacy in action in their M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1 during the shakedown ahead of the Vodafone Rally de Portugal, round five of the World Rally Championship. Picture courtesy of M-Sport Ford.

Irish pair Josh McErlean/Eoin Treacy (M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1) ended a gruelling Friday schedule of 10 stages of Rally Portugal, round five of the World Rally Championship in ninth position as Estonian Ott Tanak (Hyundai i20 Rally1) headed the Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 of Sebastien Ogier by seven seconds, the latter followed by team mates Takamoto Katsuta and Kalle Rovanpera.

There was just 0.2s between Hyundai pair Ott Tanak and Adrien Fourmaux following the morning four stages south of Porto with both posting a pair of stage wins. Tanak was best on the morning opener taking over the lead from Welsh ace and overnight leader Elfyn Evans (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) with fellow Toyota driver Kalle Rovanpera providing the main challenge to Tanak, the margin between them was 2.5s.