Rally Germany 2007

 Rally Germany 2007

Racing data
10th of 16 rounds of the 2007 World Rally Championship
Surname:	Rally Germany
Date:	17th-19th August 2007
Begin:	trier
Exams:	19 tests over 356.27 km
Distance:	1227.04 km
Covering:	asphalt
Podium
First:	Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total World Rally Team
Second:	François Duval OMV Kronos Citroën WRT
Third:	Mikko Hirvonen Ford Abu Dhabi WRT

The 26th Rallye Deutschland was the tenth of 16 FIA World Championship races in 2007. The rally consisted of 19 special stages and was held between 17th and 19th August.

Loeb / Elena (Citroën C4 WRC) at the Rallye Deutschland 2007

Race report

Sébastien Loeb (Citroën) had won the Rallye Deutschland for the sixth time in a row, something no other driver had done before. Loeb completed the 19 special stages in the three days from Friday to Sunday in a total time of 3: 27: 27.5 hours. In the drivers' world championship, the defending champion won five points on the leading Marcus Grönholm (Ford), who had lost two places on Sunday due to a driving error and ended up in fourth place.

François Duval (Citroën) drove a flawless rally and secured second place overall. The privateer won all five special stages on Sunday and worked his way up to second place on the last kilometers of the "Moselwein 2" stage (SS19). In the end, he was only 20.3 seconds short of Loeb.

Third place went to Ford works driver Mikko Hirvonen , who lost 58.8 seconds to Loeb.

Private Jan Kopecký (Škoda) finished fifth, ahead of Petter Solberg (Subaru) and Toni Gardemeister (Citroën). Solberg had a moment of shock when a cow stood in the middle of the street that he was just able to avoid.

Classifications

Bottom line

Item	driver	Co-driver	automobile	time	Residue	Points
WRC
1	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 27: 27.5		10
2	François Duval	Patrick Pivato	Citroën Xsara WRC	3: 27: 47.8	00: 20.3	8th
3	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 28: 46.6	01: 19.1	6th
4th	Marcus Grönholm	Timo Rautiainen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 29: 04.0	01: 36.5	5
5	Jan Kopecký	Filip Schovánek	Škoda Fabia WRC	3: 30: 34.6	03: 07.1	4th
6th	Petter Solberg	Phil Mills	Subaru Impreza WRC	3: 30: 42.2	03: 14.7	3
7th	Toni Gardemeister	Jakke Honkanen	Citroën Xsara WRC	3: 31: 05.0	03: 37.5	2
8th	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 32: 56.8	05: 29.3	1
JWRC
1 (11)	Martin Prokop	Jan Tománek	Citroën C2 S1600	3: 52: 26.9	24: 59.4	10
2 (12)	Urmo Aava	Kuldar Sikk	Suzuki Swift S1600	3: 53: 16.4	25: 48.9	8th
3 (14)	Conrad Rautenbach	David Sr.	Citroën C2 S1600	3: 54: 42.8	27: 15.3	6th
4 (20)	Aaron Burkart	Michael Koelbach	Citroën C2 S1600	3: 56: 51.0	29: 23.5	5
5 (25)	Jozef Béreš jun.	Petr Starý	Renault Clio S1600	4: 01: 16.5	33: 49.0	4th
6 (27)	Jaan Mölder Jr.	Katrin Becker	Suzuki Swift S1600	4: 01: 49.3	34: 21.8	3
7 (30)	Yoann Bonato	Benjamin Boulloud	Citroën C2 R2	4: 05: 32.5	38: 05.0	2
8 (32)	Aigar Pars	Ken Järveoja	Citroën C2 S1600	4: 05: 48.3	38: 20.8	1

Special stages

Day	WP number	Start CET	WP name	length	driver	automobile	time	Ø km / h	leader
Day 1 Aug 17	WP1	10:13	Ruwertal / Fell 1	19.79 km	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	11: 04.2	107.26 km / h	Sébastien Loeb
	WP2	11:26	County of Veldenz 1	23.40 km	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	13: 12.4	106.31 km / h
	WP3	12:09	Beautiful Moselle region 1	21.46 km	François Duval	Citroën Xsara WRC	12: 22.9	103.99 km / h
	WP4	15:17	Ruwertal / Fell 2	19.79 km	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	11: 34.2	102.63 km / h
	WP5	16:30	County of Veldenz 2	23.40 km	François Duval	Citroën Xsara WRC	13: 30.6	103.92 km / h
	WP6	17:13	Beautiful Moselland 2	21.46 km	Chris Atkinson	Subaru Impreza WRC	12: 18.5	104.61 km / h	François Duval
Day 2 Aug 18	WP7	08:33	St Wendeler Land 1	16.37 km	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	8: 52.6	110.65 km / h	Sébastien Loeb
	WP8	09:06	Bosenberg 1	19.00 km	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	10: 39.5	106.96 km / h
	WP9	10:29	Erzweiler 1	16.51 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	9: 55.9	99.74 km / h
	WP10	11:02	Arena armor plate 1	30.54 km	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	17: 57.4	102.05 km / h
	WP11	14:45	St Wendeler Land 2	16.37 km	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC	8: 51.6	110.86 km / h
	WP12	15:18	Bosenberg 2	19.00 km	Chris Atkinson	Subaru Impreza WRC	10: 27.4	109.02 km / h
	WP13	16:41	Erzweiler 2	16.51 km	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	9: 45.5	101.51 km / h
	WP14	17:14	Arena armor plate 2	30.54 km	Chris Atkinson	Subaru Impreza WRC	17: 49.8	102.77 km / h
Day 3 Aug 19	WP15	09:18	Dhrontal 1	11.14 km	François Duval	Citroën Xsara WRC	6: 59.2	95.67 km / h
	WP16	09:46	Moselle wine 1	18.70 km	François Duval	Citroën Xsara WRC	10: 40.3	105.14 km / h
	WP17	11:11	Circus Maximus Trier	4.36 km	François Duval	Citroën Xsara WRC	3: 11.4	82.00 km / h
	WP18	13:24	Dhrontal 2	11.14 km	François Duval	Citroën Xsara WRC	6: 53.4	97.01 km / h
	WP19	13:52	Moselle wine 2	18.70 km	François Duval	Citroën Xsara WRC	10: 32.7	106.40 km / h

Source:

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsport-total.com: Loeb wins Rallye Deutschland - Duval second , accessed on December 29, 2015
2. ↑ ewrc-results.com: 26th ADAC Rallye Deutschland 2007 , accessed on December 29, 2015

Web links

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