Rally of Portugal 2011: Los Citroën share the WINS

Already the first stage of the Rally of Portugal has begun and it has done so again with the domain of French cars. This morning the Petter Solberg Citroen, Sebastien Loeb and of Ogier the scratch of the first loop have been distributed, being this last charge of accepting the leadership of the Lusitanian test.
The first section of today, after the victory of yesterday of Ogier in the sunshine of Lisbon, began with Petter Solberg, setting the pace and a Mikko Hirvonen who lost less time than expected despite having to open track. However the good news for Ford were to end there because that Mads Ostberg stayed good first out of the race after breaking change.
The bad luck of the Norwegian already began yesterday when in the sunshine was straight in a curve on the left and clashed against the barriers breaking a tire. After the accident the wheel was fired against the viewers, ending his trip against two fans who witnessed the spectacle. This morning, when only had traveled a few meters from the first leg gearbox of the feast of Ostberg said enough and obliged him to retire.

The second special of the day we left with A Petter Solberg that you returned to bedevil the puncture. The pilot private Citroen lost a minute in the special after playing in a curve of right-wing against a rock. The leadership for its part remained in the hands of Mikko Hirvonen coming out even the first sections, maintaining a good rhythm on his rivals.
Little was going to last Finnish joy, as in the following special, Sebastien Ogier was going to be faster than him, marking the scratch and placing it as the new leader of the Rally of Portugal. His mate Loeb is second, while Hirvonen has gone from first to third place. Comment also the performance shown by the Mini Countryman overproduction in the hands of Armindo Araujo.


The car out of the factory Prodrive has usually been ahead of the WRC for the private pilots and the own single Armindo has missed a bit of a lack of grip in some sections. Now is in ninth place just seven decimas of Kimi Raikkonen and ahead of four Ford Fiesta RS WRC.
Also noteworthy was the good performance of our representatives in the WRC Academy. After two of the three sections of the morning, Yerai Lemes lies in second place, 20 seconds of Craig Breen. "Cohete" Suarez meanwhile is fourth less than one minute from the English and beating more experienced people.
Classification after four sections:
1 S. OGIER 43:22.2 0.0
2 S. LOEB 43: 25.0 + 2.8
3 M. HIRVONEN 43: 25.5 + 3.3
4 J. LATVALA 43: 28.2 + 6.0
5 P. SOLBERG 44: 18.0* + 55.8
6. M. WILSON 44:36.4 + 1: 14. 2
7 H. SOLBERG 44:41.4 + 1: 19. 2
8 K. RAIKKONEN 45:16.4 + 1: 54. 2
9 A. ARAUJO 45:17.1 + 1: 54. 9
10 B. SOUSA 45:34.8 + 2: 12. 6