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[quote=siewweng]for next season, both french manufacturers pug and cit. gonna pull out or just cit.?
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I understand it is only Citroen. I thought PSA would want to focus on one brand (ie Peugeot).
[quote=siewweng]for next season, both french manufacturers pug and cit. gonna pull out or just cit.?
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I read it’s both. Maybe they want to participate in the WTCC instead? Hope they will support semi-privateer teams in rally if they don’t want to field works team…….
WTCC? back to the old days of the renault laguna in btcc? 🙂 that car was cooolll…
loeb is leading after 2 days at rally sardinia… with solberg almost a minute behind. solberg would need a mircacle to win, but his team says he got special hard-as$ pirellis for the last day to close the gap.
Loeb wins it again! Excellent.
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Loeb delighted with Italian winSebastien Loeb – CitroenReigning world champion Sebastien Loeb says he’s delighted to have won his third rally of the year and his second on the trot on this weekend’s Supermag Rally Italia Sardinia. The Citroen ace beat Subaru’s Petter Solberg by a comprehensive margin and has passed the Norwegian to re-take the lead of the drivers’ points standings.
Loeb and his Citroen team have proved dominant on the hot-weather gravel rallies in New Zealand three weeks ago and Sardinia this weekend. Although their tyre supplier, Michelin, correctly predicted that the weather would be hotter and drier than expected and made a better choice of compounds as a result, it is an ominous warning for Solberg, Subaru and their tyre supplier Pirelli about how much Citroen, Loeb and Michelin have improved on hot gravel events. The next three rounds in Cyprus, Turkey and Greece are likely to feature similar conditions.
Loeb admitted that Saturday’s long leg had proved crucial to his winning margin of over a minute. “I wanted to take it steadily, but I upped my pace in the afternoon because I wanted to go into Sunday with a sufficient cushion because the final leg was made up of six stages without a service break,” Loeb said. “I pushed quite hard while trying to drive as cleanly as possible. This is the sort of event where you can end up losing time if you try to hard. You risk hitting trouble.”
Loeb’s Citroen team-mate, Francois Duval, scored two manufacturers’ points for the team with 11th position, despite having been forced to pull out of the event on Friday’s opening leg. That has allowed the French team to close on sister company Peugeot in the manufacturers’ standings. Peugeot leads the table with 54 points, while Citroen is now just 11 behind on 43. Both teams are pulling out of the sport at the end of the year and Peugeot is keen to end its campaign with four manufacturers’ titles in the modern WRC era to Citroen’s current two, rather than a dead heat of three each.
[/quote]looks like its going to be a dead heat of 3 manu. titles each for peugeot and citroen.
loeb wins again, so wrc is predictable after all.
Loeb wins his 5th win of 2005 at the Rally of Turkey this weekend. This puts him on a strong position to retain the world crown. But will anyone beat him??
Carlos Sainz makes a return in the second works Citroen with a impressive 4th place finish.
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World Champion Sebastien Loeb won the Rally of Turkey on Sunday, securing his fourth consecutive win in the Championship.The French Citroen driver extended his lead in this year’s Championship by finishing just under a minute ahead of his nearest rival, Subaru’s Petter Solberg, after the final leg of the rally in the Taurus mountains near the Mediterranean resort of Antalya.
After seven rallies this season, Loeb leads the Championship with 55 points, ahead of Solberg on 42 points and Estonian Markko Martin on 38 points. Peugeot are top of the manufacturers’ standings with 72 points, ahead of Citroen on 68.
The focus of attention on the final day was on the battle for second place between Solberg and Peugeot’s Marcus Gronholm, who won the final stage, two seconds ahead of Solberg.
Norway’s Solberg held on to second place by 15.7 seconds ahead of the Finn, who had pulled out of the previous rally in Cyprus.
Loeb’s lead over Solberg was trimmed in the final stage to 59.6 seconds but he repeated his 2004 victory in Turkey and has now won five of the season’s seven rounds. Solberg has won the other two.
The next race will be the Acropolis Rally in Greece on June 24-26.
The top three competitors were well ahead of the rest of the pack, with Spain’s former Champion Carlos Sainz back in fourth and 3:02.6 adrift of Gronholm.
Sainz, winner in Turkey two years ago, came out of retirement for a one-off appearance in the Rally of Turkey with Citroen as a replacement for crash-prone Belgian Francois Duval.
The 43-year-old Sainz ended the rally 1:39.3 ahead of Peugeot’s fifth-placed Martin.[/quote]
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Pos,Driver,Make,Time
1.,Sebastien Loeb,Citroen Xsara WRC,4h21:48.0
2.,Petter Solberg,Subaru Impreza WRC 05,+ 59.6
3.,Marcus Gronholm,Peugeot 307 WRC,+ 1:15.3
4.,Carlos Sainz,Citroen Xsara WRC,+ 4:17.9
5.,Markko Martin,Peugeot 307 WRC,+ 5:57.2
6.,Toni Gardemeister,Ford Focus RS WRC 04,+ 8:07.3
7.,Roman Kresta,Ford Focus RS WRC 04,+ 8:48.3
8.,Gigi Galli,Mitsubishi Lancer WR05,+ 9:38.9
9.,Antony Warmbold,Ford Focus RS WRC 04,+ 11:26.7
10.,Harri Rovanpera,Mitsubishi Lancer WR05,+ 13:51.4
[/CSV]Go Loeb, Go Citroen!
Sebastian Loeb took over the lead from Petter Solberg half way through the Rally of Argentina. Loeb is gunning for his 6th consecutive victory and 7th win overall in 2005. His progress in Argentina was not without drama as he hit a cow (which died) and caused him some off track excursion and damage to his Citroen Xsara. But he still leads by 30 secs… can anybody stop him?
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