Dani Sordo is imposed on Jaime Alguersuari in the Stadium Race

 Late night yesterday, the Vicente Calderon stadium was the scene of the Stadium Race. The Race of Champions in the Spanish style had good reception by the public. It is difficult to fill a stadium of the Atletico de Madrid (55,000 seats), but still 15-20 thousand people gathered, put the note color to the event.
If we move quickly at least important, performances by Chris Pfeiffer, Ander Vilarino and his vehicle in the Nineteens Series, the drifters, or children of the Suzuki Swift Cup put his party and made that intervals would be more bearable. But what really all wanted to see was large pilot mediate with the Silver Car S2. Small prototypes of 185 HP and 450 kilograms of weight.
After the training sessions held on the morning of Thursday, the results showed the domain from the formula one drivers. Jaime Alguersuari scored the best time and along with Andy Soucek, Vitantonio Liuzzi and Sutil Adrain passed directly to the quarter-finals. The rest would have to fight for a place.
In these pairings of the KO, Marc Gene and Stephane Peterhansel fell eliminated after damaging his vehicle while Jacques Villeneuve under Carmen Jorda and Dani Sordo did the same with Joan Vinyes, this last from a preview which won his fellow officer Suzuki, Gorka Antxustegui team.
A. from there, again direct pairing. Two runs and amount of time. Deaf eliminated Soucek, Liuzzi to Pons, Alguersuari to Rome and finally Sutil to Villeneuve. The semifinals were served. Three formula one drivers and only a pilot from the sections.

Dani Sordo is full of Vitantonio Liuzzi in the semi-final winning both races while that Jaime Alguersuari also doblegaba twice the Force India pilot. Despite the problems with the CM throughout the night, Barcelona reached the final as favorite.
Two of the best national riders were face to face. Formula front world Rallye. In the end, not joined times but the battle was the best of three races. Alguersuari earned the first while Sordo was raised with victory in the second. In the third and final, and when passed by goal for the first time very evenly matched, the Toro Rosso driver had stopped with problems in your car, making Dani Sordo in second winner of the Stadium Race. Fireworks ended the feast of perfect for a wonderful evening.

Rally of Sardinia 2011: Sébastien Loeb does not give option and takes the victory. Dani Sordo sixth

 As expected the third stage has not had much more emotion in regards to the struggle for the victory. Sebastien Loeb has proved to be the fastest pilot and has been perfectly content attacks from his rivals during this day. Second over Mikko Hirvonen who also managed to take three points from victory in the Power Stage, while the third has finally been Petter Solberg.
Sebastien Ogier for their part also went for this morning, however the young French star has broken its rear suspension when he quarreled with the Norwegian pilot for third place. This will to lift the foot and it left him in fourth place that him away a little momentary struggle for the head of the general classification.
Meanwhile Dani Sordo succeeded in sixth position final and sum the first eight points for the Mini John Cooper Works team. Of course it is a very good start for a Mini Countryman WRC that has shown to be still a bit lacking in form as to the engine. Let us hope that in the upcoming tests the performance of the BMW engine improved to see them further up.

1 3: 45: 40 9 S. LOEB 0.0
2. M. HIRVONEN 3: 45: 52 1 + 11.2
3 P. SOLBERG 3: 46: 04 7 + 23.8
4 S. OGIER 3: 47: 12 4 + 1: 31. 5
5. M. OSTBERG 3: 48: 23 5 + 2: 42. 6
6. D. SORDO 3: 49: 08 5 + 3: 27. 6
7 O. TANAK 3: 52: 51 8 + 7: 10. 9
8 J. HANNINEN 3: 53: 18 5 + 7: 37. 6
9. M. WILSON 3: 53: 41 3 + 8: 00. 4
10 B. TO ATTIYAH 3: 58: 14 7 + 12: 33. 8

Rally of Sardinia 2011: Dani Sordo improves and Sébastien Loeb stays leader solo

 The first stage of the Italian test has become a butcher, to account for more than 20 drop-outs by output of track, most, or mechanical problems. In is situation Loeb has grown even stronger and it has managed to overtake at the end of the day to Petter Solberg, who is now second, in more than half a minute.
It is that despite the attack of Mikko Hirvonen nothing more out of the Park of attendance, the Alsatian has been intractable and has continued to dominate the stage with an iron hand. It must also say that the pilot of Citroen has favored him in the third leg of the afternoon the only surviving Ford Finnish find and will stop nearly a minute on the road.
In the meantime Petter Solberg managed to recover some of lost time during the morning, and it was in second position when Sebastien Ogier lift the foot in search of a better starting position for tomorrow. As for deaf, it should be noted that the Mini continues apace and already has placed behind five pilots head usual times.

Tomorrow the Cantabrian has promised more accelerate the pace, but I think that we will have to look at the time of a Kris Meeke who already unable to fight for the points will be to get the full potential of the car. By now the WRC Countryman is a seven decimas by kilometer the time of the best, a good result to be the first test.
Meanwhile bad luck for Evgeny Novikov, who has joined the large number of casualties per output of the particular third runway. The Russian has swung and it is not known if tomorrow will reenganchar through the Super Rally. In the same situation are Lemes and rocket Suarez which have had to abandon as most of the pilots of the WRC Academy.
1 S. LOEB 1: 27: 47 0 0.0
2 P. SOLBERG 1: 28: 20 2 + 33.2
3. M. HIRVONEN 1: 28: 40 1 + 53.1
4 S. OGIER 1: 28: 42 5 + 55.5
5. M. OSTBERG 1: 28: 51 7 + 1: 04. 7
6. D. SORDO 1: 29: 20 2 + 1: 33. 2
7 O. TANAK 1: 30: 23 0 + 2: 36. 0
8. M. WILSON 1: 30: 41 5 + 2: 54. 5
9. M. PROKOP 1: 30: 48 7 + 3: 01. 7
10 J. HANNINEN 1: 31: 06 8 + 3: 19. 8

Dani Sordo started the Mini Countryman WRC testing

It seems that Prodrive had envy of Citroen and Ford and have begun with the evidence on Earth the same week that the 2011 WRC season will begin with the Sweden Rally. Mini moved to the area of Malaga with Dani Sordo and Carlos del Barrio to begin testing of Countryman WRC on Earth.

With the new update of the engine developed by BMW, the Cantabrian conducted a number of passes that above all made a follow-up to the settings of the suspensions. Today deaf also continue in Malaga, while to Kris Meeke moves Thursday Almeria to continue the test. To be able to vote this post you must login or register here.

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However and watching videos we see a clear evolution of the car with the latest images we saw at the end of last year. Pilots have highlighted in these new cars that are much more agile where you can go in-depth in areas that the old 2.0 WRC had to be "hollow out".

We have new developments in engine, which is noted. If we continue in this vein, we reach a good level. We have tested a new spoiler but at the end he has returned to the old because the car badly supported fast cornering. But where most are working is in suspension. They want us to go hard and I prefer softer to gain traction. There is time until the first rally and work is noticing.