Electric Loeb on the stages

Stages 8 and 9 saw Loeb stamp his dominance on the event by increasing his lead over second place Hirvonen. His times were electric to extend his lead to 25 seconds.

Many crews found the stage conditions challenging with several going off. The cars are now on their way back to Cardiff for the main service of the day.

Interim results after SS9

1.Sébastien LOEB 1:53:48.5 0.0
2.Mikko HIRVONEN 1:54:13.5 +25.0
3.Dani SORDO 1:54:51.0 +37.5
4.Petter SOLBERG 1:55:14.6 +23.6
5.Sébastien OGIER 1:57:33.1 +2:18.5
6.Henning SOLBERG 1:58:15.5 +42.4
7.Matthew WILSON 1:59:09.8 +54.3
8.Jari-Matti LATVALA 2:01:28.9 +2:19.1
9.Conrad RAUTENBACH 2:02:51.4 +1:22.5
10.Aaron BURKART 2:05:53.0 +3:01.6
11.Eyvind BRYNILDSEN 2:06:30.2 +37.2
12.Martin PROKOP 2:08:11.0 +1:40.8
13.Armindo ARAÚJO 2:08:15.6 +4.6
14. Steve PEREZ 2:09:17.5 +1:01.9
15.Toshi ARAI 2:09:29.0 +11.5
16. Martin SEMERAD 2:09:57.9 +28.9
17. Egon KAUR 2:10:15.3 +17.4
18. Mads OSTBERG 2:14:58.5 +4:43.2
19. Jarkko NIKARA 2:22:08.6 +7:10.1
20. Patrik FLODIN 2:22:13.2 +4.6
21. Nasser AL-ATTIYAH 2:22:34.4 +21.2
22. Khalid AL QASSIMI 2:26:03.2 +3:28.8
23. Dave WESTON 2:28:20.1 +2:16.9
24. Egoi Eder VALDES LOPEZ 2:48:33.9 +20:13.8

24th October, 2009