Citroen dominates Rally RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada

Tarragona. Rally Cataluña Costa Dorada. Rally de España 2009 The 45-COSTA DAURADA RACC Catalunya Rally in Spain, has completed its second day as determined by the opening, with a domain outright Citroen Total team, but this time with World Champion Sébastien Loeb in head, a second and a half ahead of his teammate Dani Sordo. Under a scheme that is repeated throughout the three stages, three different sections a double pass between those included on the second day of El Priorat - La Ribera d'Ebre (38.27 km), Les Garrigues (8.60 km) and fills (17.12 km) completing 127.98 km speed, everything remains as in the previous day. And is that Sébastien Loeb Citroen C4, Dani Sordo and the occasional moments of Sebastien Ogier and Petter Solberg have exerted a tight and strict control of the situation, to which nothing can make Ford, whose sole bulwark Mikko Hirvonen fighting alone against the powerful French education, which is proving with the C4 WRC almost absolute superiority on the Focus RS WRC. Unlike yesterday, the day began with completely dry roads, noting that for a moment left the province of Tarragona to go into the first loop of Lleida.El was characterized by the alternation in the first place in the table generally for while Sébastien Loeb won the opening stage, and then took the lead after the first scratch Sébastien Ogier. However, Dani Sordo, winning the third leg, returned to occupy the first place. The extraordinary performance of Petter Solberg (Citroen) was rewarded with two third place while Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) had not found the appropriate settings, so it was gradually yielding seconds. In the second round, won again Sébastien Ogier particular, the fourth day, while Loeb was imposed in the second and Petter Solberg surprisingly it did in the third. Loeb finished the day as leader with a slight lead over his teammate, thus paving the triumphant day which promises to be tomorrow for the Citroën team. In the junior section, after the leader off the track until half leg, Martin Prokop (Citroen C2), the leadership has moved to the Dutchman Hans Weijs (Citroën C2), who follows the Spaniard Jordi Martí ( Renault Clio).  Sundauy, 5th of octobre of 2009,  the third and final day of the RACC, which may decide the constructors' world title and let the drivers tighter than ever, with a single point between the first two would end like that of Hirvonen and Loeb. The final day of the penultimate round of the world consist, as the previous two, three special double pass with a total of 94 km of stages to play between 15.07 and 7.15 hours, when they will be held on Winners podium finish on the promenade Jaume I (seaside) of Salou. 45 provisional rankings after the second day RallyRACC 1-Sébastien Loeb / Daniel Elena (Citroen C4 WRC) in 2h 24'01 "3 2-Dani Sordo / Marc Marti (Citroen C4 WRC) to 1 "5 3-Mikko Hirvonen / Jarmo Lehtinen (Ford Focus RS WRC 2009), 48 "5 4-Petter Solberg / Phil Mills (Citroen C4 WRC) at 1'10 "9 5-Sébastien Ogier / Julien Ingrassia (Citroen C4 WRC), 1'30 "9 6-Jari-Matti Latvala / Miikka Anttila (Ford Focus RS WRC 2009), 2'31 "7 7-Matthew Wilson / Scott Martin (Ford Focus RS WRC 2008), 5'52 "6 8-Federico Villagra / Jorge Perez Companc (Ford Focus RS WRC 2008), 6'43 "0 9-Henning Solberg / Cato Menkerud (Ford Focus RS WRC 2008), 7'03 "1 10-Dany Snobeck / Gilles Mondesir (Peugeot 307 CC WRC) at 8'22 "4  

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