Nine-time champion Sebastien Loeb rolled back the years to lead the Turkey Rally in Marmaris on Friday after the first two special stages of the fifth round of the world championship. The 46-year-old Frenchman, driving for Hyundai, won the second of the stages and is a second ahead of his Hyundai teammate Thierry Neuville who won the opener. A further 10th of a second behind lies Sebastien Ogier (Toyota) who won here last year and currently leads the World Rally Championship standings. Loeb has not raced in the WRC since his coming in sixth in the Monte Carlo Rally in January. The intervention of the coronavirus and the part-time nature of his contract means he missed the rounds in Sweden, Mexico and Estonia. "I wasn't expecting to be leading tonight, it is very nice. I tried to go fast even in the dust, my notes were really precise," tweeted Loeb. Two passages in a loop of three specials are planned for Saturday during the second day, on rocky and very brittle roads in the hills and mountains above Marmaris, a seaside resort in south-western Turkey. dlo/bsp/td