Top 14 leaders Toulon responded brilliantly to their humiliating 41-0 defeat by Bordeaux-Begles last weekend by thrashing high-flying Montpellier 51-6 on Saturday. Toulon scored five tries, with Jonny Wilkinson contributing 26 points, to take an 11-point lead over Toulouse, who lost to Perpignan on Friday in what was their manager Guy Noves's 1,000th match with the club. Clermont also trail by 11 points but they can reduce it later when they host bottom side Mont-de-Marsan.