Rally Acropolis 2011: The official Citroën cancel out the advantage of Petter Solberg

 Such and how expected yesterday, the disadvantage when opening track was going to pass bill to Petter Solberg. The Norwegian started this morning with more than 50 seconds ahead of Sebastien Loeb. However, the two official Citroen drivers have succeeded in reducing the advantage to the minimum, in the case of Ogier to just five seconds.
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

Volkswagen will not have official team in the 2012 Dakar

With the announcement of the arrival of Volkswagen to world Rallye, arrive the first collateral damage and those will not be other than the abandonment of other projects. Kris Nissen has confirmed that there will be no official Volkswagen in the 2012 Dakar team. The director of the brand of Ingolstad Wolfsburg has stated that with three victories achieved consecutively, Volkswagen has fulfilled the objectives set at the beginning of the benefit.
With the departure of VW, tougher test in the world runs out of the official presence of any brand. Although mean that VW was not in the next edition of the Dakar as Nissen admits that there are several structures that are interested in to run to the Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 of privately. The Volkswagen, Nasser Al - Attiyah, pilot could be responsible for doing so under the patronage of Qatar.
With this news is in the air the presence of Carlos Sainz in the 2012 Dakar. The Spanish pilot said after the end of this year was going to wait and see that Volkswagen he decided on his future in the Dakar. If you propose a serious project to the Spanish (let us not deceive ourselves, even with a structure private Volkswagen continue to hand), it is possible to see again the bravo Spanish pilot. But we will have to conform to saw him assist in the development of the new volkswagen Polo wrc. Or who knows, perhaps running with the.

Team Lotus acquires Caterham Cars, it's official

After being discussed throughout the last week, it's official. Team Lotus has acquired Caterham Cars. Or what is the same, Tony Fernandes, Kamarudin Meranun and SM Nasarudin have bought to the consortium led by Corven Ventures one of the brands of recreational vehicles more legendary which still exists. For the time being there will be no drastic changes since the current team, led by Ansar Ali, will continue to be directing the course of the English manufacturer.
Among the objectives of the new owners, continue with the development of its model star, the Seven (born under the eye of Colin Chapman Lotus car and that they have been manufacturing since 1973), and lead to Caterham Cars to the new century, making the creation of new models such as the Caterham-Lola SP/300.R. does is this movement that put an end to the struggle between Lotus Group and Team Lotus and see the name of Caterham in? the formula 1?

Rally of Mexico 2011. The battle continues between the two official Citroën

The Mexican Rally is being a sieve for the participants of the rally world. The three sections of the evening have continued increasing problems and getting fat list of drop-outs. The battle is centered between the two official Citroen, although there is a threat of penalty that can cause changes in the top positions on the two.
Sebastien Ogier began like this tomorrow afternoon, marking the best time and placing new leader after move to their leader. However, the French skipped the rally and may be penalized in the next few hours. For its part Petter Solberg lost his third position by mechanical problems, with included fire Conatus. To be able to vote this post you must login or register here.
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Ogier went back out to the second tranche with a desire to extend the lead over Loeb, and after scoring the best time pulled you 2.6 seconds in his fight for the victory. Mathew Wilson, the favorite driver for many of you, has ended his career after leaving the track. Both pilot and co-pilot are in perfect condition.

The eighth section would be responsible for finding the order of departure from morning prior to the dispute of the two passes by the sunshine. Ogier downtube shy attack by Loeb and tomorrow will have to open track. After this, the time has come for speculation.
After the error of Ogier has been even of exclusion, at least so it is reflected in the rules of procedure, but still not have ruled on the matter. As for Loeb has been speaking of a possible penalty after arriving late to the release of the eighth section. This delay appears to have been caused by the traffic, so it would be exempt from this penalty.
Ken Block, very late after receiving a penalty of 10 minutes at the start of the day, he had to stop at the eighth special due to a problem with his engine. We will see the twists of the classification after the superespeciales two and above all, the issue of penalties.
1 S. OGIER 1: 24: 04 2 0.0
2 S. LOEB 1: 24: 05 8 + 1.6
3. M. HIRVONEN 1: 25: 23 8 + 1: 19. 6
4 J. LATVALA 1: 26: 55 5 + 2: 51. 3
5 E. NOVIKOV 1: 26: 58 5 + 2: 54. 3
6 H. SOLBERG 1: 27: 15 9 + 3: 11. 7
7 D. KUIPERS 1: 29: 00 1 + 4: 55. 9
8 B. TO AL - ATTIYAH 1: 29: 05 7 + 5: 01. 5
9 O. TANAK 1: 29: 29 9 + 5: 25. 7
10. M. PROKOP 1: 29: 56 3 + 5: 52. 1
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