What tomorrow's emotions that we are having in the Italian race. The tour this year has shifted to the interior in the first stage is leaving us surprise after surprise in each of its sections. In this crazy race, beginning Sebastien Loeb has been benefited and is currently leader of the race despite having to leave the first in the order of output.
The rainfall during the past few days has made it possible that this field more compact for the first pilots, and that therefore the differences caused by the stand-out will be reduced. This has made nervous pilots who supposedly had a theoretical advantage and has forced them to attack from the first kilometer of the morning.
It was the case with Latvala before reaching half of the first special dumps his Ford Fiesta RS WRC after failure of his CoPilot and lost more than 25 seconds as soon as start of the first stage. The Finnish managed to resume the March, but in the following special had to withdraw after breaking one of their suspensions.
Petter Solberg who was in charge of marking the scratch in the first leg saw as they also fell to a good number of seconds in the second, after momentarily lose the performance of the turbo. Meanwhile all eyes focused on the performance of the Mini John Cooper Works that debutaban is tomorrow at the world of rally.
Kris Meeke was very fast from the first moment, and this allowed him to surpass clearly in the first two special fellow, and theoretical number one team, Dani Sordo. However the special third the Northern Ireland is out of track, including touch, something that left him out of the race with only three sections behind him, and when it was located in a valuable 4th position.
The Spanish has been much more conservative and is currently in eighth position, behind officers and some that another surprise in the form of private. And it is that to Petter Solberg will have crept ahead the Ford of Evgeny Novikov and Mads Ostberg which are even located ahead of Sebastien Ogier, which is currently fifth classified.
In terms of our compatriots of the WRC Academy, seems this time that they had taken calmly and both Lemes as "Rocket" are quite far from Craig Breen age is displayed as the fastest pilot of the category by far. Lemes after two tranches is ninth, while the Asturian is in the eleventh position.
1 S. LOEB 44:35.2 0.0
2 M. HIRVONEN 44: 37.9 + 2.7
3. E. NOVIKOV 44: 47.1 + 11.9
4 D. OSTBERG 44: 55.0 + 19.8
5 S. OGIER 44: 56.0 + 20.8
6 P. SOLBERG 45: 01.5 + 26.3
7 H. SOLBERG 45: 17.6 + 42.4
8. D. SORDO 45: 20.7 + 45.5
9 O. TANAK 45:37.4 + 1: 02. 2
10. M. PROKOP 45:46.4 + 1: 11. 2
