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Rallye Deutschland Day Three

SEASON 2012

Rallye Deutschland Day Three

FIA WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP
ADAC RALLYE DEUTSCHLAND
(24-26 AUGUST 2012)

26.08.2012

The Citroën Total World Rally Team crew of Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena recorded their ninth Rallye Deutschland victory in Trier today. Leading from start to finish, the pair won by two minutes over Ford rivals Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila. Third position was taken by Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen.
 
In the FIA World Rally Championship, Loeb has once again extended his lead and holds a 54 point advantage over Hirvonen with four rounds remaining. Petter Solberg is third, just two points ahead of Mads Ostberg. In the Manufacturers’ Championship, Citroën continues to head Ford.
 
Today’s route took in just two stages, one repeated twice, before the crews rounded the event off with the Circus Maximus Power Stage in the centre of Trier. Here, Loeb, Hirvonen and Andreas Mikkelsen picked up the additional points on offer for the fastest times through this 4.37 kilometre street stage.
 
Such was Loeb’s advantage, the Frenchman merely had to drive safely to the finish, once again doing so in faultless style, despite a small turbo problem. Latvala notched up his best-ever result on Tarmac with second and Hirvonen too had little to gain by pushing hard. Behind them, Ostberg and Atkinson finished fourth and fifth and Sébastien Ogier claimed the best result for an S2000 car in the Skoda Fabia. His team-mate Andreas Mikkelsen finished behind him in seventh.
 
The FIA World Rally Championship crews now return to gravel and the forests of Wales for Rally GB (13-16 September).
 
Rallye Deutschland – Final Provisional Results

1.   Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena
2.   Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila
3.   Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen
4.   Mads Ostberg/Jonas Andersson
5.   Chris Atkinson/Stephane Prévot
6.   Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia
7.   Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Floene
8.   Nasser Al-Attiyah/G Bernacchini
9.   Dani Sordo/Carlos Del Barrio
10. Mathieu Arzeno/Renauld Jamoul
Citroën DS3 WRC
Ford Fiesta RS WRC
Citroën DS3 WRC
Ford Fiesta RS WRC
MINI Cooper Works WRC
Skoda Fabia S2000
Skoda Fabia S2000
Citroën DS3 WRC
MINI Cooper Works WRC
Peugeot 207 S2000
3 hr 41 min 52.0sec
3 hr 43 min 52.0sec
3 hr 44 min 23.3sec
3 hr 45 min 16.3sec
3 hr 51 min 02.4sec
3 hr 51 min 42.5sec
3 hr 54 min 14.5sec
3 hr 54 min 42.1sec
3 hr 56 min 08.9sec
3 hr 57 min 12.1sec

FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers (after 9 of 13 rounds)

Sébastien Loeb (FRA)
Mikko Hirvonen (FIN)
Petter Solberg (NOR)
Mads Østberg (NOR)
Jari-Matti Latvala (FIN)
Evgeny Novikov (RUS)
Martin Prokop (CZE)
Thierry Neuville (BEL)
Dani Sordo (ESP)
Sébastien Ogier (FRA)
Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT)
Ott Tänak (EST)
Armindo Araújo (PRT)
Chris Atkinson (AUS)
Dennis Kuipers (NLD)
François Delecour (FRA)
Andreas Mikkelsen (NOR)
Henning Solberg (NOR)
Pierre Campana (FRA)
Matti Rantanen (FIN)
Jari Ketomaa (FIN)
Yazeed Al Rajhi (SAU)
Patrik Sandell (SWE)
Ken Block (USA)
Ricardo Triviño (MEX)
Peter Van Merksteijn (NLD)
Manfred Stohl (AUT)
Eyvind Brynildsen (NOR)
Abdulaziz Alkuwari (QAT)
Mathieu Arzeno (FRA)
199 points
145 points
104 points
102 points
87 points
55 points
38 points
32 points
31 points
31 points
27 points
26 points
11 points
10 points
8 points
8 points
7 points
6 points
6 points
6 points
6 points
4 points
4 points
4 points
1 point
1 point
1 point
1 point
1 point
1 point
 

FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers (after 9 of 13 rounds)

Citroën Total World Rally Team
Ford World Rally Team
M-Sport Ford World Rally Team
Qatar World Rally Team
Citroën Junior World Rally Team
Adapta World Rally Team
MINI WRC Team
Brazil World Rally Team
320 points
197 points
115 points
59 points
54 points
49 points
26 points
20 points