Rally of Argentina 2011: Sébastien Ogier makes a serious mistake and gives the victory to Loeb

 If I were now Sebastien Ogier would give me your head against a wall until the next Acropolis Rally. Young French star has again demonstrated that there are still many situations does not control, and the get to the last day with a solid advantage seems to be one of them. Argentina Ogier was again leading to the final stage and a turnaround in the first special has graced victory rally.
And that already from the first moment he has been in a very nervous Ogier. In the first leg cut too a curve and its Citroen DS3 WRC dumps returning to track very touched and the severely damaged power steering. Loeb and Hirvonen that at a stroke cut more than 20 seconds in a stretch that despite its length, was the longest of the rally, not brought too much complexity took advantage of that situation.

The second tranche has also helped Loeb placed in second position and cutting the distance to Ogier in more than 8 seconds leaving an almost little difference between the two teammates. Mikko Hirvonen for its part also took advantage of the still leader ran the sections without power steering and reduced the advantage quite.
After a stretch in which again were Loeb and Hirvonen benefited by the problems of Ogier, arrived at the last special, the live stage power. Solberg has flown it, but the main attraction came in the first three times. Loeb has done enough to win the rally and has marked the third time of the special, while that Mikko Hirvonen also exceeded in extremis to an Ogier that enough I had to take the car to finish in third position.
1 4: 03: 56 9 S. LOEB 0.0
2. M. HIRVONEN 4: 03: 59 3 + 2.4
3 S. OGIER 4: 04: 04 2 + 7.3
4 P. SOLBERG 4: 04: 29 5 + 32.6
5. M. OSTBERG 4: 09: 13 7 + 5: 16. 8
6 F. VILLAGRA 4: 10: 45 AM 4 + 6: 48. 5
7 J. LATVALA 4: 15: 31 4 + 11: 34. 5
8. M. WILSON 4: 17: 29 6 + 13: 32. 7
9 H. PADDON 4: 29: 40 7 + 25: 43. 8
10 P. FLODIN 4: 37: 31 1 + 33: 34. 1

Rally of Argentina 2011: Sébastien Ogier the fastest in the Stobart

Because has already top the highly anticipated Rally of Argentina of this year. And it has done with Sebastien Ogier as the fastest of the Stobart at the controls of his Citroen DS3 WRC. The young Gaul set a time of 4 minutes and 42.1 seconds in the almost 6.23 km stretch which had participants test and perform the finishing touches to their cars before the start of the Rally, which will take place this afternoon with the sunshine.
Behind Ogier is over his teammate, that no friend, Sebastien Loeb, who has done an eight time decimas worse than his namesake. Third was Petter Solberg who managed to make a good time despite ter many problems with the right front transmission, which has gone as far as breaking in the second pass by the Stobart.
Proud to be the first Ford Fiesta RS WRC classified has remained in the hands of Mads Ostberg morning who has finished in fourth position, one tenth ahead of the official Ford's Mikko Hirvonen. Jari-Matti Latvala has had worse luck as it has also had problems with its transmission and only has been able to be ninth in the standings.

Jari-Matti suffered a problem related to the transmission that is specific to your car. We have made the relevant changes and everything is fixed at the moment.

Rally of Jordan 2011: very delayed Mikko Hirvonen and Sébastien Ogier leader

As we have said in recent days, the first stage of Mikko Hirvonen was to make it very difficult. Finnish, leader of the Championship, has been highly penalized by its starting position and has lost a lot of time with a view to a possible battle tomorrow for the victory. For its part Sebastien Ogier, ranked has managed to finish the first leader loop.
The morning began with A surprising Sebastien Loeb, which despite leaving second to the section managed to set the best time, placing it also as the first leader of the Jordanian test. Jari-Matti Latvala and Ogier were able to keep pace to the Alsatian, while Solberg started something asleep and was four seconds despite its good position.
The Norwegian took the crust in the second leg, and ended up with the scratch ahead of Ogier, Latvala and Loeb. Young French star was placed at the time second, tied with the same time as his teammate at Citroen, Sebastien Loeb, head of the classification of the test.
As for the Ford, Latvala was still the fastest although had a scare after a small departure from track in the second special. The day is showing very difficult for everyone and the track has many stones and a thin layer of loose soil that hurts a lot the grip of the World Rally Cars.
On the third leg, ninth of the original program, Sebastien Ogier flying and got the lead with a higher than the seven seconds on Petter Solberg and Sebastien Loeb. Fourth is Jari-Matti Latvala who maintains his difference with leader below 10 seconds. Something that certainly cannot be said Hirvonen, who after a morning opening track has been on the road almost a minute.
1 S. OGIER 46:49.3 0.0
2 P. SOLBERG 46: 56.5 + 7.2
3 S. LOEB 46: 57.7 + 7.4
4 J. LATVALA 46: 59.1 + 9.8
5 M. HIRVONEN 47: 40.8 + 51.5
6 D. OSTBERG 47: 44.4 + 56.1.
7. M. WILSON 48:15.5 + 1: 26. 2
8. K. RAIKKONEN 48:20.1 + 1: 30. 8
9 B. AL - ATTIYAH TO 48:57.2 + 2: 07. 9
10 K. TO THE BITING 49:09.1 + 2: 19. 8

The face-to-face between Sébastien Ogier and Sébastien Loeb

During the Rally of Portugal the charge to make summaries of world Rallye came the bright idea to assemble a face to face between the seven-time champion of the world, sebastien loeb, and the candidate to the sceptre, sebastien ogier. Something like this as it could be the season in which the two pilots were in the same team to mount a face-to-face between Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
In addition you do not think that it has been one of the best interviews, with questions on each piropee to the other and the other to dispose in praise with the one. Questions sought for each of the two to be clear to taste and it seems that neither of them has avoided the challenge. It seems that if this continues this escalation of tension in the season will be shake-up within Citroen.

The week after the rally: Sébastien Ogier reconquista Portugal

A little later than usual we do the analysis of what happened ruante this weekend in lusas lands. Highlights undoubtedly was the third victory in the absolute level of Sebastien Ogier. French has taken taste to the Rally of Portugal and has managed to repeat the victory of last year, which in turn meant the premiere of his achievements in world Rallye.
See win for Ogier is something that does not end like many, among whom I am, but If there is someone to who bothers him is his companion team, Sebastien Loeb. Seven-time champion saw you for the first time out of their boxes, away from that spirit cold always maintained, after losing half a minute in the incident with Hirvonen.
Not have to look far to find which Loeb does not like anything having a pilot as Ogier in the same team. The was comfortable with someone as deaf to his side and moving to have someone as the young Gaul is very uncomfortable. For this reason that Dani was not hiding during the relay in "rigorous live" of the Power Stage that had seen a Loeb with more desire to win than ever.
 Bad talk from the Citroen is which tells us that Ford is not over to find the key to be above. Its two official drivers are seen to go always very strong, but times out with more problems than in Gallic cars. Stoking while also problems with the transmission and suspension you are sending with the Ford Fiesta RS WRC and this is something in what should be improved before reaching so hard as Jordan or the Acropolis rally. By now Citroen shows bring advantage over his rival.
But if we talk about the problems of M in the absolute category we must not forget of the suffered by the Fiesta R2 of the WRC Academy. Saying it soft, cars not held the impetuous young pace and that left out among others our two representatives and Craig Breen, it had become clear as the fastest. In the end the victory the was a virtually unknown Estonian which as pointed out well my colleague Eloy Entrambasaguas, has gone over the past two years in a two-wheel drive in tests of asphalt and land.

I would also like to talk about The Mini Countryman overproduction that debuted in the last test lusa. Obviously from the first moment we saw that Daniel Oliveira was not going to be a pilot in which look to see the performance. On the other hand Armindo Araujo Yes raised much of the performance and sneaks behind the fifth and ahead of the private. Still own Sordo was cautious saying that a spoiler does not give these two seconds that take them the officials by kilometer.
It now remains to see what happens with the Jordan Rally. Pipo Lopez put it very black during the Sunday, but the truth is that Citroen has half confirmed that if the rally despite the problems encountered in that area of the planet will be disputed. Let us hope that by then we can see a pretty spectacle between the Ford and Citroen, in what will be the last test before the debut of the Mini.

Rally of Portugal 2011: Sébastien Ogier is the fastest and they move to Ken Block to a hospital after his accident

The Stobart of the Lusitanian test has been movidito. The two protagonists have been Sebastien Ogier and Ken Block. The French Citroen has set the fastest time of the Stobart, while the American has had a strong accident during the course of the test section and had to be taken to the hospital to ask or check doctor both he and his co-driver.
Let's go by parts. Ogier marked a time of 3 minutes and 8.5 seconds in the 5,03 km of the stretch of Judeau. One tenth of a second over slow was Sebastien Loeb, which in turn was Jari-Matti Latvala and Petter Solberg ended less than a second of the Cronus marked by the young star gala.
As the Monster team driver Ken Block it too recortaba on a curve and dumps with your Ford Fiesta RS WRC. The car ended more than six meters from the road and the special was cancelled after his accident evacuating both Block and Gelsomino Faro hospital for a routine checkup. It is not yet known if the car and the two members will be ready to start the Rally tomorrow.

Ken and Alex were transferred to a Faro hospital for a precautionary check-up, but are well. We are hoping to bring the car to the assistance to assess the damage and see if they are very serious.

1 Ogier. Citroen DS3 WRC. 3:08.5
2 Loeb. Citroen DS3 WRC. 3:08.6
3 P. Solberg. Citroen DS3 WRC. 3:09.2
4 Latvala. Ford Fiesta RS WRC. 3:09.4
5 Ostberg. Ford Fiesta RS WRC. 3:09.6
6 Juha. Ford Fiesta RS WRC. 3:10.8
7 H. Solberg. Ford Fiesta RS WRC. 3:13.4
8 Wilson. Ford Fiesta RS WRC. 3:14.8
9 Ferrari. Citroen DS3 WRC. 3:15.1
10 Villagra. Ford Fiesta RS WRC. 3:15.6

Sébastien Ogier holds that it was faster than Loeb in Mexico

The victory of Sebastien Loeb seems that it has not sitting very well in some people within the Citroen team. After L'Equipe revealed about team orders, today is sebastien ogier who take more fuel to the fire. Young French star says that it was faster than his teammate during the Rally despite having lost a certain podium during the stage on Sunday.
The data do not feel the same and decline the balance in favour of Loeb with nine scratch before the five best times achieved by Ogier. Obviously the stand-out and the abandonment of the latter have conditioned the results, but it is also true that a driver Loeb was seen at all times, that at no time are you descontrolo the rally. In the case of "Seb" (ii) it is clear that we cannot say the same.

I was working hard, I had to clean up the sections and I wanted to be in the fight. I am sure that this weekend I was faster than him in comparison with my starting position. Under the same conditions I would be faster than Loeb.

Rally of Mexico 2011. Sébastien Ogier new leader after the penalty to Loeb

At the end the penalty has not gone to borne by Ogier, but it has been the leader of the race, Sebastien Loeb, which has suffered all the weight of the regulation. The Alsatian has arrived five minutes late at the end of the 15th special and has received 50 seconds penalty which made him give up the leadership at the hands of his teammate.
The problem of Loeb came when trying to access the section and experience a problem at the turn of the marches. This added to the traffic on the link because had much complicated you life, you to inevitably fall to second place. In the meantime Petter Solberg won a new position, in this case to his brother Hening, and Furthermore he recorded a new best time. To be able to vote this post you must login or register here.
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From there was the own Loeb that would take care of rhythm. The seven-time champion of the world of rally flying and it took him almost 15 seconds to Ogier in the second leg of the afternoon Mexican. The difference between the two was approximately in 10 seconds. Solberg, benefited from its delayed starting position back to score another scratch, just before Ford got the first of the rally.

Jari-Matti Latvala took the honor of being the only car of the brand of the oval able to snatch the fastest time in a Citroen. It would not be the only surprise in this special, as a Loeb in comeback full calaba the DS3 WRC in the last curve of the route and lost another second to Ogier.

The hand brake does not work from the middle of the second tranche and I forgot in the final bend and when I wanted to use can not and the car is calo.

1 S. OGIER 3: 09: 36 4 0.0
2 S. LOEB 3: 09: 47 7 + 11.3
3. M. HIRVONEN 3: 11: 04 5 + 1: 28. 1
4 J. LATVALA 3: 12: 17 8 + 2: 41. 4
5 P. SOLBERG 3: 16: 27 7 + 6: 51. 3
6. M. OSTBERG 3: 17: 42 1 + 8: 05. 7
7 H. SOLBERG 3: 18: 15 0 + 8: 38. 6
8 B. TO AL - ATTIYAH 3: 20: 19 9 + 10: 43. 5
9. M. PROKOP 3: 20: 56 7 + 11: 20. 3
10 J. HANNINEN 3: 21: 27 9 + 11: 51. 5

Rally of Mexico 2011. Sébastien Ogier gives the victory to the "head"

We expected a Sunday very competitive between the two official drivers of Citroen, especially if we had in mind that Sebastien Loeb was which was going out to hunt down his rival. Without however Ogier has soon removed from the fight after starting a wheel of the DS3 WRC and out of track in the first special of today.
From there, Loeb had a very comfortable ahead of Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala who completed the podium. Fourth ended Petter Solberg who completed their comeback after many problems in his mount during the two previous days. Furthermore, Mads Ostberg also came in a worthy fifth place after having ruled out any good result at the stage of yesterday. To be able to vote this post you must login or register here.
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SWRC Nasser Al-Attiyah has been the victory ahead of Martin Prokop and the main favourite for the victory, the pilot of Skoda Juho Hanninen. As for the Power Stage, Hirvonen has taken the three points, followed by Loeb and Solberg that have divided the two and the second and the third point.
1 S. LOEB 3: 53: 17 0 0.0
2. M. HIRVONEN 3: 54: 55 4 + 1: 38. 4
3 J. LATVALA 3: 55: 40 9 + 2: 23. 9
4 P. SOLBERG 4: 00: 35 4 + 7: 18. 4
5. M. OSTBERG 4: 02: 00 5 + 8: 43. 5
6 H. SOLBERG 4: 03: 07 0 + 9: 50. 0
7 B. TO AL - ATTIYAH 4: 06: 38 5 + 13: 21. 5
8. M. PROKOP 4: 06: 52 0 + 13: 35. 0
9 J. HANNINEN 4: 08: 05 7 + 14: 48. 7
10 F. VILLAGRA 4: 41: 34 2 + 48: 17. 2

Sweden 2011 rally: Mikko Hirvonen wins and Sébastien Ogier is Power Stage

  At the end whether was it complicated somewhat the situation the first pilot of Ford. Some very good Mads Ostberg Cronus had reduced the difference between the two to five seconds in the absence of the power stage. However weather Norwegian has allowed to finally Mikko Hirvonen repeat victory achieved last year.

The poor situation of the track to Hirvonen has forced him having to clean it and keep rivals a breeding ground for attack. Spotlight was Petter Solberg that spun him to lose the fourth position in favour of Sebastien Ogier. Latvala meanwhile returned to reopen the airline and flying low over the Swedish sections. To be able to vote this post you must login or register here.

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However the most striking was coming curiously the first power stage broadcast live this year. After mark Ogier better time could see with stupefaction to Copilot of Petter Solberg, Chris Patterson, driving the car of the Norwegian in the final stretch. Obviously the English towards what could and only reaching target after losing more than a minute in the special and the fourth position of the general.

The explanation is Solberg had fined for speeding in one of the links, this left his driver's license suspended and forced Patterson had to take managers to compete in the stretch and take the car to the Park of attendance.

The three points of the power stage is took Sebastien Ogier, while that Loeb had two and Latvala one. Victory eventually in the hands of Mikko Hirvonen, no major surprises, Mads Ostberg after a second incredible rally and completing have Jari-Matti Latvala.

1 M. HIRVONEN 3: 23: 56 6 0.0
2 M. OSTBERG 3: 24: 03 1 + 6.5
3 J. LATVALA 3: 24: 30 6 + 34.0
4 S. OGIER 3: 24: 44 3 + 47.7
5 P. SOLBERG 3: 25: 27 8 + 1: 31. 2
6 S. LOEB 3: 26: 26 9 + 2: 30. 3
7 P. ANDERSSON 3: 30: 18 6 + 6: 22. 0
8. K. RAIKKONEN 3: 30: 58 9 + 7: 02. 3
9 M. WILSON 3: 34: 08 1 + 10: 11. 5
10. BITING 3: 34: 27 7 K + 10: 31. 1