DARLINGTON rally driver Guy Wilks made a super start to the final day of Rallye Monte Carlo and heads to Monaco for tonight's stages in fifth place.

He and co-driver Phil Pugh were second fastest on SS11 this morning - the 30km Montauban S/Ouveze-Eygalayes test - in the Skoda UK Motorsport Fabia S2000.

Wilks - who celebrates his 29th birthday today - said: "That was a good stage and we had a good rhythm. Monaco here we come."

SS11 stage times - 1 Ogier 23.18.5; 2 Wilks +18.4; 3 Hanninen +18.7; 4 Hirvonen +22.3; 5 Kopecky +28.5; 6 Vouilloz +44.5; 7 Wittmann +53.5; 8 Magalhaes =1.02.8 Overall positions after SS11 - 1 Hirvonen 3h36m24.8; 2 Hanninen +44.1s; 3 Ogier +48.0s; 4 Vouilloz +1m56.5s; 5 Wilks +7m03.4s; 6 Sarrazin +7m17.9s; 7 Wittmann +7m25.0s; 8 Kopecky +7m30.6s