WRC Round 3 - Rally Cyprus

[Cess]

Only 35 entrants despite being a P-WRC and J-WRC round.

Here is the seeded start list for today’s leading 20 competitors:

1. Loeb - CITROEN TOTAL WRT
2. Hirvonen - BP FORD ABU DHABI WORLD RALLY TEAM
3. Sordo - CITROEN TOTAL WRT
4. H. Solberg - STOBART - VK - M-SPORT FORD RALLY TEAM
5. Latvala - BP FORD ABU DHABI WORLD RALLY TEAM
6. Wilson - STOBART - VK - M-SPORT FORD RALLY TEAM
7. Ogier - CITROEN JUNIOR TEAM
8. P. Solberg - PETTER SOLBERG RALLYING MSN EDITION
9. Al Qassimi - BP FORD ABU DHABI WORLD RALLY TEAM
10. Novikov - CITROEN JUNIOR TEAM
11. Villagra - MUNCHI'S FORD WORLD RALLY TEAM
12. Rautenbach - CITROEN JUNIOR TEAM RAUTENBACH
13. Sandell - RED BULL RALLYE TEAM
14. Araujo - RALLIART ITALY
15. Neiksans - LMT/VERGINAINFORALLY TEAM
16. Sauvan
17. Arai - SUBARU TEAM ARAI
18. Al-Attiyah - AUTOTEK/JM ENGINEERING
19. Campedelli - ERRANI TEAM GROUP
20. Semerad

Henning Solberg crashed into a truck on a road section between service and special stage 1. Therefore he's out already.

After SS1, Loeb leads from Sordo, who in turn is ahead of Hirvonen. Latvala is 4th. Ogier is 5th and Petter Solberg is 6th in the Xsara, which has updated shocks and a new Citroen sport engine for this rally.

Live stage times here: PIRELLI - RACING

 

[seanbob]

No. 50 for Loeb, man is unstoppable!

World Rally Championship - News - FLASH NEWS: Sebastien Loeb wins the FxPro Cyprus Rally!

Congratulations to Petter getting a podium spot, cracking result for him with the small team they have!!

 

[Graham]

more info

Rally Cyprus: Result | World Rally News | 2009 | Crash.Net

 

[D4LY]

on dave @ 6' oclock

 

[svensktoppen]

Just watched this on Dave.

Excellent work by Petter, so good hearing his frantic explanations in the interviews again, all Norwegians are clinically insane, lol - fact

 

[Cess]

Just goes to prove how better the Citroen is than the last 3 evolutions of Subaru. That's his best result in a long time.