Thierry Neuville sent after the first two stages of the Tour de Corse

No doubt the name and the speed of Thierry Neuville are becoming gradually a gap in the international scene. The young Belgian was already in the fight for the Canary Islands, and now in a rally demanding as the Tour de Corse again to present his credentials to lead the first two stages of the historical French test.
Thursday Neuville went for and in the only two sections of the first stage would get nine seconds on his rivals. The first sword at this time the team Skoda, Jan Kopecky, which did not end of being comfortable with the settings of the Fabia S2000, which did not end give security to attack in the narrow Corsican sections ended up behind him.
For its part the pilot Peugeot UK did not end realize good performance, Guy Wilks taking a spin in the second leg of the first stage which made him lose valuable seconds. The bad luck of the British was not going to end up there, and on the second day of the test Wilks attacked and was track output that left his Peugeot 207 S2000 stuck in a ditch. The car did not suffer much damage, but the team decided to withdraw from the race.

Meanwhile Neuville was still proving that he had come to this rally with the intention of winning and despite losing almost 20 seconds, and the lead, during the two first sections was recovering and he took advantage of the puncture suffered by Bryan Bouffier to reposition in the first place.
Three scratch during the second stage were Neuville with an advantage that touched the 25 seconds for Jan Kopecky. Completing the podium is the second Skoda with veteran Freddy Loix driving and protecting from the attacks of Andreas Mikkelsen which is only 1 second and 3 you decimas of the Mitsubishi driver.
1 Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul (Peugeot 207 S2000) 1h52m23.0s
2 Jan Kopecky/Petr Stary (Skoda Fabia S2000) + 23.4s
3 Freddy Loix/Frederic Miclotte (Skoda Fabia S2000) + 27.7s
4 Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Floene (Skoda Fabia S2000) + 29.0s
5 Pierre Bell/Sabrina of Castelli (Peugeot 207 S2000) + 52.8s
6 Bryan Bouffier/Xavier Panseri (Peugeot 207 S2000) + 1m09.8s
7 Julien Maurin/Olivier Ural (M Ford Fiesta S2000) + 2m53.5s
8 Bruno Magalhaes / Paulo Grave (Peugeot 207 S2000) + 3m01.9s
9 Toni Gardemeister / Tapio Suominen (Skoda Fabia S2000) + 3m03.2s
10 Jean-Mathieu Leandri/Pierre-Marien (Peugeot 207 S2000) + 4m08.2s