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Anyone keeping an eye on the stage times?

Loeb is having a rough start to the season. Looks like Ford have the better car this year but on the snow you never know.

Pos Driver Car Time/Gap
1. Mikko Hirvonen Ford 1h54m57.5s
2. Mads Ostberg Ford + 0.3s
3. Petter Solberg Citroen + 31.0s
4. Jari-Matti Latvala Ford + 44.3s
5. Sebastien Ogier Citroen + 1m10.0s
6. Sebastien Loeb Citroen + 2m43.6s
7. P-G Andersson Ford + 4m11.0s
8. Patrik Sandell Skoda + 4m19.8s
9. Kimi Raikkonen Citroen + 5m22.4s
10. Anders Grondal Subaru + 7m00.0s

[vlad]

I miss Gronholm, the snow king!

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Class rally in the end. Here are the results.

Pos Driver Car Time/Gap
1. Mikko Hirvonen Ford 3h23m56.6s
2. Mads Ostberg Ford + 6.5s
3. Jari-Matti Latvala Ford + 34.0s
4. Sebastien Ogier Citroen + 47.7s
5. Petter Solberg Citroen + 1m31.2s
6. Sebastien Loeb Citroen + 2m30.3s
7. P-G Andersson Ford + 6m22.0s
8. Kimi Raikkonen Citroen + 7m02.3s
9. Matthew Wilson Ford + 10m11.5s
10. Khalid Al Qassimi Ford + 10m31.1s

Power Stage result:

Pos Driver Car Time/Gap
1. Sebastien Ogier Citroen 2m22.7s
2. Sebastien Loeb Citroen + 0.3s
3. Jari-Matti Latvala Ford + 0.7s
4. P-G Andersson Ford + 1.3s
5. Mikko Hirvonen Ford + 1.4s

Hirvonen is pure class on snow. Back to back now in Sweden.

[Gaz]

Kimi seams to be improving on last year.

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Kimi seams to be improving on last year.

Ya miles better. He left Block for dead. Wilson is probably his target this year.

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Here is the video that I can't embed into the forum since it is from the WRC.com website of Petter's co driver Chris Patterson racing the final stage SS22 on board.

I love what Petter says at the end. "Did we beat Leob?"

http://www.wrc.com/video/browse-all/vid ... /?vid=2009

[texasmr2]

That was cool but what was up with the co-pilot reaching for the brake or gear lever?? I remember when all a co-pilot did was announce the radius of the corner/turn and not what gear to be in .

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That was cool but what was up with the co-pilot reaching for the brake or gear lever?? I remember when all a co-pilot did was announce the radius of the corner/turn and not what gear to be in .

That's the co driver driving tex. Petter had his license takin off him for speeding on public roads between stages and couldn't drive the final stage.

[scotty]

Finally downloaded this from RU and watched it earlier. Great rally! Hopefully this marks the start of a Hirvonen title victory, but Mexico will be far more telling in terms of whether the Ford is actually the fastest car or not.

Impressive drive by Ostberg!

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Here is the video that I can't embed into the forum since it is from the WRC.com website of Petter's co driver Chris Patterson racing the final stage SS22 on board.

I love what Petter says at the end. "Did we beat Leob?"

http://www.wrc.com/video/browse-all/vid ... /?vid=2009

That's actually hilarious, you could hear the stress in his voice... and he was itching to correct any mistake even taking the brake. Petter is a pretty lousy co-driver, thankfully his co-driver isn't a very lousy driver.

But that car was not going 100%! My favorite WRC driver.

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Mexico will be far more telling in terms of whether the Ford is actually the fastest car or not.

I think it is neck and neck but I reckon the Fiesta is a stronger car in general due to all the IRC miles it has done over the past few years.

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Kimi isn't competing at this rally and Ken Block looks to be already out on day 1 with mechanical problems.

But Solberg is on form on ss stage 1.

Pos Driver Team/Car Time
1. Petter Solberg Solberg Citroen 53.2s
2. Sebastien Loeb Citroen + 0.2s
3. Sebastien Ogier Citroen + 0.5s
4. Jari-Matti Latvala Ford + 1.2s
5. Mikko Hirvonen Ford + 1.6s
6. Federico Villagra Munchi's Ford + 2.3s
7. Matthew Wilson Stobart Ford + 2.7s
= Evgeny Novikov Stobart Ford + 2.7s
9. Mads Ostberg Stobart Ford + 2.8s
10. Nasser Al-Attiyah Barwa Ford + 3.5s

Official WRC Stage times: Linky

[Jamie]

That's good Solberg deserves a good run.

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That's good Solberg deserves a good run.

Didn't last very long. A mechanical problem cost him 7 mins.

[Jamie]

Shame He's a mint guy. Shame