The test began on Thursday with a Thierry Neuville on winning streak. After his victory in the Tour de Corse the Belgian came out to this rally with enough pressure. In a stretch Sprint, only 2.12 km, it is removed at a stroke, and who after the first day as leader ahead of a Patrick Sandell, who has already shown his true level here.
However the revolution would come on Friday with a devastating stage for the mechanical and tyre and which has had three leaders different. The first, Neuville, was suffering from a departure from runway in a rapid area and leaving his Peugeot 207 S2000 stuck in a ditch. Later the Belgian driver has managed to recover some of lost time, but difficult you will have tomorrow in order to improve its sixth current position.
A penalty to Juho Hanninen left to Bryan Bouffier as the second leader of the test. He shortly going to last the joy to the winner of the centenary of the Monte Carlo Rally as a prick put Hanninen as leader. The Finnish IRC champion ended the day in the first position, with an advantage of 12.9 seconds on Bouffier and more than a minute on his teammate, Jan Kopecky.
2 Bryan Bouffier/Xavier Panseri (Peugeot 207 S2000) + 12.9s
3 Jan Kopecky/Petr Stary (Skoda Fabia S2000) + 1m07.5s
4 Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Floene (Skoda Fabia S2000) + 1m33.1s
5 Guy Wilks/Phil Pugh (Peugeot 207 S2000) + 2m49.0s
6 Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul (Peugeot 207 S2000) + 5m13.2s
7 Toni Gardemeister / Tapio Suominen (Skoda Fabia S2000) + 5m48.6s
8 Karl Kruuda/Martin Jarveoja (Skoda Fabia S2000) + 6m37.5s
9 Marc Tempestini/Dorin Pulpea (Peugeot 207 S2000) + 7m13.7s
10 Giandomenico Basso/Mitya Dotta (PROTON Satria Neo S2000) + 9m20.0s
