Citroen team leader Sebastien Loeb will want to regain the upper hand in Finland next weekend and put the problems he has experienced in Poland, Greece and Sardinia firmly behind him.
SS14 - Milki 1 (27.07km): Ogier quickest through a narrow and muddy SS14; Loeb second - 2.5 seconds slower; Latvala third followed by Hirvonen and Henning Solberg; Holowczyc completes top six; Sordo made a mistake in a hairpin; Petter Solberg had an oil leak; Ostberg lost over 25 minutes;
Multiple WRC champion, Sebastien Loeb has conceded that the title race is now wide open following his crash on the Acropolis Rally and his failure to score.
Citroen number two driver Dani Sordo has retired from day two of the Acropolis Rally of Greece. Sordo's Citroen C4 WRC car suffered a broken suspension arm in the final test this morning, the 24.15 kilometre run through Kefalari 1.
Current WRC points leader Sebastien Loeb has admitted that preserving tyres could play a key part in deciding who comes out on top in the Acropolis Rally this weekend.
Having initially been classified in third place at the end of the final stage in Sardinia, Sebastien Loeb has been demoted to fourth after being hit with a two-minute time penalty by event stewards.
Sebastien Loeb has secured his fifth win of the 2009 World Rally Championship season, and his fifth successive victory on Rally Argentina, to extend his advantage at the head of the championship standings.
Conrad Rautenbach will hope to repeat his heroics of 2008 as the World Rally Championship heads to Argentina this weekend for the fifth round of the year.
Mikko Hirvonen has defied his early running order to emerge from the opening leg of the Rally Portugal with a comfortable 15 second lead over Dani Sordo having managed to stay error free throughout the day.
Citroen's Sebastien Loeb set the pace on Thursday morning in the shakedown for the Rally Norway, the second round in the 2009 World Rally Championship.
The blame for the withdrawal of both Subaru and Suzuki from the World Rally Championship at the end of last year can be laid squarely at the feet of organisers the FIA, argues David Richards.
Petter Solberg has admitted that he has '100 things up in the air' as he desperately chases a drive that will allow him to return to the World Rally Championship in time for his home event next month - but he will only come back, he insists, when all of the circumstances are right.
Sebastien Loeb's winning margin on Wales Rally GB has grown to 12.7 seconds after his jump start penalty for SS18 was removed, organisers have confirmed. "Officials discovered a glitch in the timing system after reviewing all the times for the stage," read a statement to the press.
Subaru team boss David Richards has hit out at the FIA and slammed the current tyre regulations after the shenanigans that severely disrupted day one of the Wales Rally GB.
Crash.net would like to clarify that unconfirmed reports earlier today that Sebastien Loeb had gone off the road for the second time in as many days during the pre-event recce for this weekend's Rally GB are not in fact true. Crash.net apologises for the error.
Citroen team leader Sebastien Loeb has gone off on the road during the reconnaissance for the Wales Rally GB today, the final round in the 2008 World Rally Championship.
Citroen team leader Sebastien Loeb put in an impressive performance on Monday when he joined the Red Bull Racing F1 team for the opening day of its winter test programme.
Newly crowned Junior World Rally Champion Sebastien Ogier was unable to make it to the finish of the Rallye du Condroz-Huy following an event long battle with fellow Citroen driver Bruno Thiry.
Sebastien Loeb will test an F1 car again later this month, after he was handed the 'prize' by Red Bull, Citroen Sport's partner, following his success on the Rally Japan, where he clinched the WRC drivers' title for a record fifth time.
Mikko Hirvonen led the Rally Japan from start-to-finish this weekend, but while he took the maximum haul it wasn't sufficient to keep his title dream alive and with Sebastien Loeb finishing third, the Frenchman becomes the first ever driver to win the WRC crown five times.
SS20 - Sapporo 4 (1.49km): Sordo fastest in SS20; Gardemeister second; Latvala third; Loeb and Hirvonen joint fourth; Wilson sixth; Novikov heads the PWRC category; Hirvonen leads overall by 15.5 seconds at the end of day 2. Top ten stage times for SS20:
Citroen's Dani Sordo is hoping to be able to re-start the Rallye de France-Tour de Corse under the SupeRally on Saturday following his accident today [Friday] in stage three.
Driver / co-driver: Martin Prokop and Jan Tomanek (Citroen C2 S1600). Press conference. Q: Martin, yesterday you didn't think a win was possible, but here you are!