WRC Italy and some others

After day 1 of the 2008 Rally d’Italia Sardegna, Loeb has a nice lead over his teammate Sordo and 3rd belongs to Solberg:

1. Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena Citroën C4 WRC 1 hr 31 min 27.6sec
2. Dani Sordo/Marc Marti Citroën C4 WRC 1 hr 32 min 03.3sec
3. Petter Solberg/Phil Mills Subaru Impreza WRC 1 hr 32 min 21.4sec
4. Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen Ford Focus RS WRC 1 hr 32 min 26.5sec

I’d really like to see Solberg get a podium, its been a rough 2008 season so far for him. But according to wrc.com he lost the position after the 1st stage of day 2 :

“Solberg began the day 18.1 sec behind second place man Dani Sordo, but the time lost on SS7 meant he slipped four places to seventh overall.”

Boo

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I also found some interesting shots from the 2008 DTM series, here. Lots of cool cars and and overview of DTM. I remember when I could catch DTM on Speedchannel…..but then Nascar bought it and took off all the events that actually were interesting.

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Eh…makes me sad. I think I’ll run downtown and have a drink…but what does make me happy are new pics from practice on formula1.com from France:

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2 comments so far

sucks that solberg hasn’t been on top in a while. prodrive failed when they tried to do f1, put the wrc program aside, then pulled out of f1. anyways, i hope the gh chassis is more competitive than the gd. still, i’m a huge hirvonen fan. the kid is the future.

earl
May 18th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

agreed, when is the GF going to run? 09? and yes Hirvonen has some skills for sure. 2nd overall in Italy

Rob
May 18th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

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