Petter went out overnight with the idea of losing less than thirty seconds, but the thrust of his rivals and the fact of opening track made to lost more than ten seconds in the first special. Sebastien Ogier was in charge of the scratch mark and this allowed him to be in second place after beating Loeb already a Mikko Hirvonen who could do little to stop the pace of the pilots of Citroen.
Meanwhile Jari-Matti Latvala is rejoined the race after the problems of differential of yesterday. Finnish returned to show his bad luck and in the first leg was suffering from serious problems of turbo that they forced him drag the morning loop waiting to get to the Park of assistance and that can repair you the car their mechanics.
The difference between Ogier and Solberg continued falling during the second special of the day. Something that was aggravated when Petter committed a mistake and it was wrong of address at a crossroads. As a result the Norwegian lost 19.8 seconds in a single tranche with respect to their immediate rival.
The last special morning has left Ogier to just 5.4 seconds of Petter Solberg, when there are four sections to the end of the second stage of the Acropolis Rally. Young French star is currently the fastest of the test, and after scoring the three scratch of today, is trailing in 10 seconds to teammate, Sebastien Loeb.
Meanwhile Henning Solberg and Matthew Wilson are in fifth and sixth position making a very irregular rally, seeing even passed on several occasions by Kimi Raikkonen, who is seventh. Highlight the good performance of Juho Hanninen which has inherited the top position in the SWRC class after a rollover of the up to this leading morning, Ott Tanak.
1 P. SOLBERG 2: 24: 09 4 0.0
2 S. OGIER 2: 24: 14 8 + 5.4
3 S. LOEB 2: 24: 24 4 + 15.0
4. M. HIRVONEN 2: 24: 33 2 + 23.8
5 H. SOLBERG 2: 26: 54 1 + 2: 44. 7
6. M. WILSON 2: 27: 35 4 + 3: 26. 0
7 K. RAIKKONEN 2: 29: 06 6 + 4: 57. 2
8 J. HANNINEN 2: 29: 44 9 + 5: 35. 5
9 B. SOUSA 2: 32: 07 0 + 7: 57. 6
10 D. KUIPERS 2: 32: 54 2 + 8: 44. 8
