Rally Great Britain 2012

 Rally Great Britain 2012

Racing data
10th of 13 races of the 2012 World Rally Championship
Surname:	Rally Great Britain (Wales)
Date:	14.-16. September 2012
Begin:	Wales
Exams:	19 tests over 324.92 km
Distance:	1466.270 km
Covering:	gravel
Podium
First:	Jari-Matti Latvala Ford World Rally Team
Second:	Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total World Rally Team
Third:	Petter Solberg Ford World Rally Team

The 68th Rally Great Britain ( Wales ) took place from 14th to 16th September 2012. A total of 19 special stages were driven on gravel.

Jari-Matti Latvala / Miikka Anttila with the Ford Fiesta RS WRC

Reports

Day 1 (Friday, September 14th)

Petter Solberg (Ford) started the Rally Great Britain with two fastest times. Jari-Matti Latvala drove faster in the four subsequent special stages and stayed as the leader of the overall standings. This time Sébastien Loeb in the Citroën had no chance against the Ford factory drivers , he lost over 21 seconds on Latvala.

Day 2 (Saturday, September 15)

Jari-Matti Latvala hardly made any mistakes on the second day and led the rally with over 24 seconds on Solberg. Loeb fought for second place with Solberg and was just 6.4 seconds behind after 13 special stages. Mads Østberg (Ford) was third ahead of Mikko Hirvonen (Citroën).

Day 3 (Sunday, September 16)

As in the previous year, Latvala won the Rally Great Britain (Wales). Loeb passed Solberg and finished second. With a 62 world championship point lead over teammate Hirvonen, Loeb could hardly take the world championship win, although three rallies were still outstanding in the 2012 season. Hirvonen was fifth behind Østberg, who finished fourth despite technical problems.

Classifications

Bottom line

rank	driver	Co-driver	automobile	time	Residue	Points + power stage
WRC
01	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Antilla	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 03: 40.3		25 + 1 power stage
02	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën DS3 WRC	3: 04: 08.1	0: 27.8	18 + 2 power stage
03	Petter Solberg	Chris Pattersson	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 04: 09.0	0: 28.7	15th
04th	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 04: 50.9	1: 10.6	12
05	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Citroën DS3 WRC	3: 05: 09.8	1: 29.5	10 + 3 power stage
06th	Evgeny Novikov	Ilka Minor	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 07: 17.3	3: 37.0	08th
07th	Thierry Neuville	Nicolas Gilsoul	Citroën DS3 WRC	3: 07: 52.2	4: 11.9	06th
08th	Matthew Wilson	Scott Martin	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 09: 40.7	6: 00.4	04th
09	Martin Prokop	Zdeněk Hrůza	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 10.39.2	6: 58.9	02
10	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Giovanni Bernacchini	Citroën DS3 WRC	3: 13: 12.4	9: 32.1	01
SWRC
01 (13)	Craig Breen	Paul Nagle	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 18: 22.9		25th
02 (14)	Tom Cave	Craig Parry	Proton Satria Neo S2000	3: 21: 00.7	02: 37.8	18th
03 (16)	Yazeed Al-Rajhi	Michael Orr	Ford Fiesta RRC	3: 22: 53.7	04: 30.8	15th
04 (17)	Maciej Oleksowicz	Andrzej Obrebowski	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 26.38.8	08: 15.9	12
05 (23)	Alastair Fischer	Daniel Barritt	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 37: 14.4	18: 51.5	10
06 (24)	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Emil Axelsson	Proton Satria Neo S2000	3: 37: 51.1	19: 28.2	08th

Special stages

Day	WP number	begin	WP name	length	WP winner	time	Ø km / h	leader
Day 1 (September 14th)	WP1	08:13	Dyfnant 1	20.48 km	Petter Solberg	11: 53.5	103.33 km / h	Petter Solberg
	WP2	09:38	Hafren Sweet Lamb 1	24.87 km	Petter Solberg	14: 46.2	101.03 km / h
	WP3	10:19	Myherin 1	27.88 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	15: 55.1	105.09 km / h	Jari-Matti Latvala
	WP4	13:13	Dyfnant 2	20.48 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	11: 45.9	104.45 km / h
	WP5	14:38	Hafren Sweet Lamb 2	24.87 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	14: 44.9	101.18 km / h
	WP6	15:19	Myherin 2	27.88 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	15: 55.7	105.02 km / h
Day 2 (September 15th)	WP7	09:02	Crychan 1	19.50 km	Mads Østberg	10: 38.1	110.01 km / h
	WP8	09:40	Epynt 1	08.31 km	Sébastien Loeb	04: 31.3	110.27 km / h
	WP9	10:06	Halfway 1	18.35 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	10: 33.7	104.24 km / h
	WP10	15:17	Crychan 2	19.50 km	Petter Solberg	10: 27.9	111.80 km / h
	WP11	15:55	Epynt 2	08.31 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	04: 28.5	111.42 km / h
	WP12	16:21	Halfway 2	18.35 km	Petter Solberg	10: 30.4	104.79 km / h
	WP13	18:30	Celtic Manor	03.04 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	01: 46.9	102.38 km / h
Day 3 (September 16)	WP14	07:18	Port Talbot 1	17.35 km	Sébastien Loeb	09: 15.9	112.21 km / h
	WP15	08:16	Rheola 1	08.87 km	Sébastien Loeb	04: 42.0	113.14 km / h
	WP16	08:34	Walters Arena 1	15.33 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	08: 49.3	104.15 km / h
	WP17	12:07	Port Talbot 2	17.35 km	Petter Solberg	09: 07.1	114.09 km / h
	WP18	13:05	Rheola 2	08.87 km	Sébastien Loeb	04: 40.1	114.01 km / h
	WP19	13:23	Walters Arena 2 (power stage)	15.33 km	Mikko Hirvonen	08: 51.4	103.51 km / h

Web links

• Official site of the WRC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsport-total.com - website: Rallye News: motorsport-total.com/rallye/news.html?m=9&y=2012&r=sn_13&snb=0&Submit.x=6&Submit.y=3. Retrieved March 1, 2014 .