Petter is holding 9. position after Leg 1 of Rally Deutschland is completed. Surprisingly, Duval from Belgium is in the lead. But Sebastien Loeb is pushing hard in 2nd position, only 1,3 seconds behind. Loeb struggled with too soft tyres on the second loop through todays stages, the team expected more rain. Henning had an accident on SS5, according to wrc.com he lost a wheel, and had to retire from the rally. On SS3, another Norwegian, Andreas Mikkelsen had to retire. Chris went off the road on SS2, got stuck into a vineyard and lost more than 8 minutes.
The day started perfectly for Petter and Phil, and they were 5th fastest on the first stage. “My best tarmac-stage for a long time” he said at the stage finish. On the next stage he had a really fast time on the first split, but then the brakes started to trouble and they lost time. On SS5 Petter hit a rock and damaged the car on the left front and lost a lot of time on SS6.
Rallye Deutschland continues with 6 stages Saturday.
Overall classfication Leg 1
1. Duval, Citroen
2. Loeb, Citroen +1,3
3. Grønholm, Ford +17,4
4. Hirvonen, Ford +22,7
5. Gardemeister, Citroen +1.04,2
6. Kopecky, Skoda +1.26,6
7. Pons, Subaru +1.37,2
8. Latvala, Ford +1.40,7
9. Petter, Subaru +1.50,7
15. Chris, Subaru +8.19,4
источник: http://www.pettersolberg.no
Хотя по данным с wrc.com на последнем СУ сегодня Аткинсон приехал первым!
Так что очень интересная ситуация!
