The second round of WRC 2011 season had its first stage run with Petter Solberg claiming the first stage win with Loeb & Ogier trailing him!

Some excerpts of the positions:
SS1
1. Petter, Citroën 53,2
2. Loeb, Citroën +0,2
3. Ogier, Citroën +0,5
4. Latvala, Ford +1,2
5. Hirvonen, Ford +1,6
6. Villagra, Ford +2,3
7. Wilson, Ford +2,7
8. Novikov, Ford +2,7

The first rally of the 2011 season, Rally Sweden winner Hirvonen & his Ford team falls down the Citroen trio! Maybe Ford's are not better in high altitudes..

Night stage in the Guanajuato Street Stage!


Tomorrow may look like this!

After SS5

No Driver Time Diff
1. S. LOEB
2. S. OGIER +0.7
3. P. SOLBERG +18.4
4. M. HIRVONEN +40.9
5. M. WILSON +1:38.0
6. E. NOVIKOV +1:43.4
7. H. SOLBERG M +1:56.5
8. D. KUIPERS M +2:31.7
9. J. LATVALA M +2:40.2
10. N. AL-ATTIYAH S +2:40.9

After a lot of drama in the weekend, Loeb retains his podium this season's Mexican title!

Overall classification Rally Mexico 2011
1. Loeb, Citroën
2. Hirvonen, Ford +1.38,4
3. Latvala, Ford +2.23,9
4. Petter, Citroën +7.18,4
5. Østberg, Ford +8.43,5
6. Henning, Ford +9.50,0

Ogier crashes in SS20 & DNF! Gives chance to Ford's Mikko & Latvala to the next consecutive podium finishes.. After a long & challenging competition to Petter he takes the 4th position which he lost 7mins in stage due to electrical malfunction...

Bad luck for P.Solberg..
Mechanical failure cost him almost 7 mints.

Al-Attiyah excluded from Mexico results.

The Barwa World Rally Team driver completed the 22-stage event at the top of the Super 2000 World Rally Championship standings in seventh overall in a Ford Fiesta S2000.

However, a post-event scrutineering report issued by the technical delegate from the FIA, motorsport’s world governing body, stated that the fuel cell ventilation valves did not conform to the technical regulations.

Are you sure on that mech failure Faiz!? I read & heard on those videos as electrical failures for Petter.

Al-Attiyah had some tech regs issue with some engine components, bad luck to him too!

And it was Ogier's crash despite with that 10+ sec lead, which gave the win to Loeb. It was clear that Loeb was not happy with Ogier's speed on the earlier stages.

Mikko also got the advantage & finished second.

Tantragna, you are right.. Electrical failure

Got to love this guy!
http://www.youtube.com/embed/aQm0btlJQH8

Still 18 at 38

Awesome, he is a dude.

Loeb and Ogier fight is gonna get interesting as the season moves.
Prost & Senna repeat