Round 3

Categories:
WRC, P-WRC, S-WRC

Based:
Dead Sea Centre

Surface:
Gravel

Most recent winner:
Mikko Hirvonen (2008)

Rally website:
http://www.jordanrally.com

The Jordan Rally has been a round of the Middle Eastern Rally Championship since the 1980s, but it wasn't until 2008 that it made its debut on the world stage, when Jordan became the first Arab country to host a round of the WRC.

Under the guidance of His Royal Highness Prince Feisal Al Hussein, the chairman of Jordan Motorsport, the inaugural WRC rally was well run, stunning to watch and was hailed a success by teams and drivers. After a year out in 2009 the event returns this year with a few modifications but the same epic character.
This is a rally of extremes. From scorching temperatures - which can top 40 degrees Celsius - to the wild landscape the sandy gravel stages snake through. The headquarters and Service Park are located next to the Dead Sea at the lowest land point on earth, 50km away from the Kingdom’s capital city of Amman.
This year some of the 2008 stages have been modified and others replaced altogether in an effort to introduce more variety to the route, which starts in the forests north of Amman at altitudes of more than 1000 metres, then concentrates in and around the Jordan Valley at around 400 metres below sea level.

Here are the Shakedown times of the WRC drivers:

1. LOEB. Citroen C4 WRC. 1:13.4
=2. SORDO. Citroen C4 WRC. 1:13.5
=2. P. SOLBERG. Citroen C4 WRC. 1:13.5
4. LATVALA. Ford Focus RS WRC 09. 1:13.7
5. HIRVONEN. Ford Focus RS WRC 09. 1:13.8
6. OGIER. Citroen C4 WRC. 1:13.9
7. VILLAGRA. Ford Focus RS WRC 08. 1:15.1
8. WILSON. Ford Focus RS WRC 08. 1:15.2
9. H.SOLBERG. Ford Focus RS WRC 08. 1:15.3
10. RAIKKONEN. Citroen C4 WRC. 1:16.2

Results after SS7
1. Jari-Matti LATVALA 1:11:31.5 0.0
2. Sebastien OGIER 1:12:01.7 +30.2
3. Sebastien LOEB 1:12:03.3 +31.8
4. Petter SOLBERG 1:12:04.0 +32.5
5. Mikko HIRVONEN 1:12:13.7 +42.2
6. Dani SORDO 1:12:16.9 +45.4
7. Henning SOLBERG 1:12:52.4 +1:20.9
8. Matthew WILSON 1:13:32.6 +2:01.1
9. Federico VILLAGRA 1:14:19.7 +2:48.2
10.Kimi RAIKKÖNEN 1:15:22.0 +3:50.5

good show for Latvala!!!

Kimi in 10th!! Nice...

Results:
1. Sebastien LOEB 3:51:35.9 0.0 0.0
2. Jari-Matti LATVALA 3:52:11.7 +35.8 +35.8
3. Petter SOLBERG 3:52:47.7 +36.0 +1:11.8
4. Dani SORDO 3:53:25.2 +37.5 +1:49.3
5. Matthew WILSON 4:00:00.2 +6:35.0 +8:24.3
6. Sebastien OGIER 4:02:02.3 +2:02.1 +10:26.4
7. Federico VILLAGRA 4:03:03.9 +1:01.6 +11:28.0
8. Kimi RAIKKÖNEN 4:04:06.9 +1:03.0 +12:31.0
9. Henning SOLBERG 4:05:44.5 +1:37.6 +14:08.6
10. Xavier PONS 4:10:09.8 +4:25.3 +18:33.9

Fantastic, Loeb is just too good...

Kimi in 8th is a fantastic result!!!