WRC Portugal

The rally of portugal has started and after SS4/17 Sepastian Ogier is in the lead.
Here are the standings now:

1. Sebastien Ogier    Citroen 43.22,2  
 2. Sebastien Loeb     Citroen    +2,8  
 3. Mikko Hirvonen     Ford       +3,3  
 4. Jari-Matti Latvala Ford       +6,0  
 5. Petter Solberg     Citroen   +55,8  
 6. Matthew Wilson     Ford    +1.14,2  
 7. Henning Solberg    Ford    +1.19,2  
 8. Kimi Räikkönen     Citroen +1.54,2  
 9. Armindo Araujo     Mini/S2 +1.54,9
10. Bernardo Sousa     Ford    +2.12,6

Petter Solberg was fastest on stage two but suffered a front-right puncture on the next run, which cost the Citroen privateer more than a minute. As a result of his delay, the Norwegian is 55.8s off the lead in fifth place after four stages. So its really tight in the top four, and anything can happen!


UPDATE: After stage 7
Four tyre puncture for Petter Solberg today, bad luck??

1. J-M.Latvala      Ford    1.23.31,4 
 2. Mikko Hirvonen   Ford        +11,5  
 3. Sebastien Loeb   Citroen     +13,7  
 4. Sebastien Ogier  Citroen     +16,7  
 5. Henning Solberg  Ford      +2.06,5
 6. Matthew Wilson   Ford      +2.11,2
 7. Armindo Araujo   Mini/S2   +3.43,7  
 8. F.Villagra       Ford      +3.36,8  
 9. Kimi Räikkönen   Citroen   +4.33,1  
10. K.Al-Qassimi     Ford      +4.35,2

UPDATE: After stage 9

1	4	Jari-Matti LATVALA	1:56:22.7	0.0
2	2	Sebastien OGIER	1:56:28.3	+5.6
3	1	Sebastien LOEB	1:56:55.2	+32.5
4	3	Mikko HIRVONEN	1:58:29.2	+2:06.5
5	15	Matthew WILSON	1:59:31.6	+3:08.9
6	5	Henning SOLBERG	1:59:36.2	+3:13.5
7	17	Armindo ARAUJO	2:01:59.1	+5:36.4
8	8	Kimi RAIKKONEN	2:02:14.5	+5:51.8
9	7	Federico VILLAGRA	2:02:28.8	+6:06.1
10	10	Khalid AL QASSIMI	2:03:20.3	+6:57.6
11	9	Dennis KUIPERS	2:04:31.9	+8:09.2
12	11	Petter SOLBERG	2:07:46.0	+11:23.3
13	6	Mads OSTBERG	2:28:36.5	+32:13.8

Update SS13/17

1. Sebastien Ogier  Citroen 2.59.30,2  
 2. Sebastien Loeb   Citroen     +37,6  
 3. J-M.Latvala      Ford      +4.14,6  
 4. Matthew Wilson   Ford      +5.26,8  
 5. Mikko Hirvonen   Ford      +5.32,5 
 6. Henning Solberg  Ford      +7.46,4 
 7. Kimi Räikkönen   Citroen   +8.55,2 
 8. F.Villagra       Ford      +9.10,0 
 9. Petter Solberg   Citroen  +11.27,1  
10. Dennis Kuipers   Ford     +13.07,9 

FINAL RESULTS 

1. Sebastien Ogier    Citroen  4.10.53,4 
 2. Sebastien Loeb     Citroen      +31,8 
 3. Jari-Matti Latvala Ford       +3.22,1 
 4. Mikko Hirvonen     Ford       +6.16,3 
 5. Matthew Wilson     Ford       +7.48,5 
 6. Petter Solberg     Citroen   +10.17,4 
 7. Kimi Räikkönen     Citroen   +10.54,1 
 8. Federico Villagra  Ford      +11.38,8 
 9. Henning Solberg    Ford      +14.16,4 
10. Dennis Kuipers     Ford      +17.54,6

Lots of problems for ford.

Hirvonen still in the lead overall