Ireland's Josh McErlean and co-driver Eoin Treacy finished eighth in a challenging Canary Islands Rally on Sunday.
Jon Armstrong and co-driver Shane Byrne came home 11th overall, missing out on FIA World Rally Championship points by just 2.8 seconds.
The event was won by nine-time champion Sebastien Ogier (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) and co-driver Vincent Landais.
It was their first WRC victory of the year, finishing just under 20 seconds ahead of the British crew of Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin.
Sami Pajari and Marko Salminen, also of Toyota, were third.
Ogier's team-mate Oliver Solberg crashed out when competing for victory after colliding with a barrier, leaving his GR Yaris Rally1 too badly damaged to continue. Both Solberg and co-driver Elliott Edmondson were unharmed.
The championship continues on gravel next month at the Vodafone Rally de Portugal in a fortnight.
Armstrong found it a tough event: "It was a bit of a tricky weekend in the Canary Islands.
"Coming off the back of Croatia, especially on Sunday, which was smoother and more race-circuit-style, maybe put me in the wrong mindset thinking Canaries wouldn't be quite as difficult as it turned out to be.
"In reality, the stages here were more technical, with longer corners and a lot of direction changes, and that is where we seemed to struggle the most to extract the pace.
"Shakedown probably set the tone, as we never really managed to get into the right rhythm or fully understand the Hankook tyre. That made the rally quite difficult, because when you are already a bit off the pace and then try to push harder, you start to overheat the tyres, and that is when the surprises begin.
"We had a few moments across the weekend, which you are obviously trying to reduce as much as possible, so in that sense we were quite fortunate to avoid super-rally and bring the car home to the finish.
"Overall, it was a very challenging event where we just struggled to put everything together. Now it’s about regrouping and looking ahead to Portugal."
