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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

Klien if manager considers the 'option' Kubica

Sports director Christian Klien has admitted he would like to see the Austrian pilot in the cockpit of Renault R31 replacing Robert Kubica.


Already in the hope of ensuring the second race in Hispania Racing seat, Klien name also has been casually linked with Renault after the tragic accident of Robert Kubica Rally.

So far, HRT was the only team with a free cabin, Rummenigge, led by former Jaguar and Red Bull driver to the Austrian news agency APA said.


Klien has also been with BMW and Honda test driver and was possibly the fastest of several pilots HRT last year while sitting for the Spanish team.


"After drama with Kubica, of course, if it was my duty as a director of Renault, is also considered as an option", stressed Rummenigge.


However, the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport claims that all candidates, the bookmark Kubica 9 number is veteran Nick Heidfeld.


The report said the 33-year-old German was "point-to-point" week in 2011 as pilot reservation return to Mercedes, but since the accident Robert Kubica, these plans have been postponed.