Loeb Fifth straight victory in Mexico Frenchman Sebastien Loeb (Citroen) took his fifth consecutive victory in the Rally of Mexico after the dispute of the last day, which benefited from the abandonment of his fellow countryman Sebastien Ogier, who was unable to continue on an exit ramp. He was accompanied on the podium the Finnish duo of Ford, with Mikko Hirvonen second position to maintain in front of the world, and Jari-Matti Latvala in third.
The final day of Rally Mexico promised a beautiful duel between Loeb and Ogier. Without traditional team orders that placed number one Loeb and Dani Sordo as a squire while English was on the team, the two French pilots had carte blanche to strive freely for the victory. And Ogier again demonstrated that he lacks temperance in its momentum when you have the opportunity to get a good result.
Injured by having to go first to the portions, that meant cleaning the surface of the sections of dust and gravel, squeezing out the maximum to prevent Loeb time since you could cut the second came seven times and have something better tracks, allowing it to grip. But at kilometer 13 veered off the runway and pulled a wheel of his vehicle. Could not get out, and there were aspirations of victory, and the first double by Citroen, a team that saw the first Ford drivers, their only rival in the constructors' championship, returning to step on the podium.
Loeb Since then, with the advantage he had over Hirvonen, should only be kept on track, reach the goal and overcome the remaining two tranches to clinch the fifth victory on American soil. Hirvonen
again demonstrated regularly. I knew that being first out the sections on Friday would have few options to victory, and therefore preferred to be quiet, reduce risks and wait for the mistakes of others. They came and he gradually rose through the ranks to second to Loeb, the man record of the specialty.
Behind, Latvala was the first man who suffered problems while in fourth position was the Norwegian Petter Solberg (Citroen). This despite the many ups and downs experienced never ceased in his attempt to move up until it finally got the fourth place.
Argentina's Federico Villagra (Ford) despite having to leave the first day first tranche of a problem with a wheel and reenlist with the penalty after five minutes each way uncontested for a total of 45, got up to tenth place by what amount your first point of the season.
addition, in the final stage, television and awarded points to the fastest, the quickest was Hirvonen, where he earned his first fastest time of the rally, which got the three points. It was followed by Loeb, who added two extra points, and Solberg, who won the last point.
With this victory Loeb added the fifth followed in Mexico and 63 of his career. After Mexico, the overall classification Global is led by Hirvonen, who now follows Loeb, nine points away. Third is the Norwegian Mads Otsberg (Ford) who was second in Sweden and here was fifth.
The next round of the world will be in Portugal between 24 and 27 March.