Rally Japan 2010

 Rally Japan 2010

Racing data
10th of 13 rounds of the 2010 World Rally Championship
Surname:	Rally Japan
Date:	9-12 September 2010
Begin:	Sapporo
Exams:	26 tests over 301.12 km
Distance:	1205.07 km
Covering:	gravel
Podium
First:	Sébastien Ogier Citroën World Rally Team
Second:	Petter Solberg Petter Solberg World Rally Team
Third:	Jari-Matti Latvala Ford World Rally Team

The Rally Japan was the 10th round of the 2010 World Rally Championship . The 26 special stages were held on gravel roads. The rally took place from 9 to 12 September 2010 and the rally base was located near Sapporo .

Race report

Sébastien Ogier (Citroën) won the second WRC rally this season and the second in his career. Petter Solberg (Citroën) led the rally for a long time, but had to let Ogier go on Sunday afternoon because of a broken shock absorber on the 23rd special stage. Until then, the two competitors were almost on a par in terms of time. Third place went to Jari-Matti Latvala . The Ford driver fought his way back up after a damage to the drive shaft that pushed him back from first to fifth position on Saturday afternoon. With four stages to go, he caught up with Dani Sordo (Citroën), who had been third up to that point. Sébastien Loeb (Citroën) could not cope with the Japanese gravel roads and finally reached the goal, 53.3 seconds behind, in fifth place. In view of his lead of 43 points over Ogier, Loeb should hardly be able to take the seventh world title in a row.

In the S2000 class (SWRC) Jari Ketomaa won and came in ninth overall, one place ahead of Martin Prokop . Patrick Flodin had an easy time with the production vehicles (PWRC) after Toshi Arai had already retired on Friday after an accident.

Classifications

Bottom line

Item	driver	Co-driver	automobile	time	Residue	Points
WRC
1	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 10: 26.4		25th
2	Petter Solberg	Chris Patterson	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 10: 42.1	0: 15.7	18th
3	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 10: 52.4	0: 26.0	15th
4th	Dani Sordo	Diego Vallejo	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 11: 01.6	0: 35.2	12
5	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 11: 19.7	0: 53.3	10
6th	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 11: 39.9	1: 13.5	8th
7th	Henning Solberg	Ilka Minor	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 13: 29.5	3: 03.1	6th
8th	Federico Villagra	Jorge Pérez Companc	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 20: 44.3	10: 17.9	4th
9	Jari Ketomaa	Mika Stenberg	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 25: 13.5	14: 47.1	2
10	Martin Prokop	Jan Tománek	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 25: 47.2	15: 20.8	1
SWRC
1 (9)	Jari Ketomaa	Mika Stenberg	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 25: 13.5		25th
2 (10)	Martin Prokop	Jan Tománek	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 25: 47.2	0: 33.7	18th
PWRC
1 (11)	Patrik Flodin	Göran Bergsten	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	3: 31: 08.3		25th
2 (12)	Hayden Paddon	John Kennard	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	3: 33: 54.1	2: 45.8	18th
3 (16)	Gianluca Linari	Paolo Gregoriani	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	3: 46: 15.1	15: 06.8	15th
4 (17)	Kyosuke Kamata	Takumi Takahashi	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	3: 48: 18.6	17: 10.3	12
5 (20)	Wang Rui	Pan Hongyu	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	3: 53: 07.8	21: 59.5	10
6 (46)	Reijo Muhonen	Leave rental lines	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	4: 39: 53.3	1: 08: 45.0	8th

Special stages

Day	WP number	WP name	length	WP winner	time	Ø km / h	leader
Day 1 (Sept 9th)	WP1	SSS Sapporo 1st	1.57 km	Sébastien Ogier	1: 21.8	69.10 km / h	Sébastien Ogier
	WP2	SSS Sapporo 2	1.57 km	Sébastien Ogier	1: 21.4	69.43 km / h
Day 2 (Sept 10th)	WP3	Iwanke 1	26.92 km	Petter Solberg	16: 21.2	98.77 km / h
	WP4	Sikot 1	27.76 km	Petter Solberg	15: 49.9	105.21 km / h	Petter Solberg
	WP5	Koyka 1	3.55 km	Henning Solberg	1: 55.1	111.03 km / h
	WP6	Iwanke 2	26.92 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	16: 08.0	100.12 km / h
	WP7	Sikot 2	27.76 km	Mikko Hirvonen	15: 35.0	106.88 km / h
	WP8	Koyka 2	3.55 km	Mikko Hirvonen	1: 55.9	110.27 km / h
	WP9	SSS Sapporo 3rd	1.57 km	Sébastien Loeb	1: 24.5	66.89 km / h
	WP10	SSS Sapporo 4	1.57 km	Petter Solberg	1: 24.0	67.29 km / h
Day 3 (Sept 11th)	WP11	Nikara 1	17.68 km	Petter Solberg	9: 38.8	109.97 km / h
	WP12	Kamuycep 1	33.76 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	21: 02.3	96.28 km / h
	WP13	Kina 1	9.55 km	Dani Sordo	5: 34.5	102.78 km / h	Jari-Matti Latvala
	WP14	Nikara 2	17.68 km	Petter Solberg	9: 30.0	111.66 km / h
	WP15	Kamuycep 2	33.76 km	Dani Sordo	20: 31.5	98.69 km / h
	WP16	Kina 2	9.55 km	Petter Solberg	5: 32.6	103.37 km / h	Petter Solberg
	WP17	SSS Sapporo 5th	1.57 km	Petter Solberg	1: 24.8	66.65 km / h
	WP18	SSS Sapporo 6	1.57 km	Mikko Hirvonen	1: 24.1	67.21 km / h
Day 4 (Sept. 12)	WP19	Bisan 1	4.71 km	Sébastien Loeb	2: 27.7	114.80 km / h
	WP20	Naekawa 1	17.86 km	Sébastien Ogier	14: 21.6	74.62 km / h	Sébastien Ogier
	WP21	Sunagawa 1	3.70 km	Sébastien Loeb	2: 39.7	83.41 km / h
	WP22	Bisan 2	4.71 km	Sébastien Ogier	2: 26.4	115.82 km / h
	WP23	Naekawa 2	17.86 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	14: 05.6	76.04 km / h
	WP24	Sunagawa 2	3.70 km	Sébastien Loeb	2: 36.3	85.22 km / h
	WP25	SSS Sapporo 7th	1.57 km	Sébastien Ogier	1: 24.0	67.29 km / h
	WP26	SSS Sapporo 8	1.57 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	1: 23.8	67.45 km / h

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsport-total.com: Solberg missed the sensation - Ogier wins , accessed on December 21, 2014

Web links

Commons : World Rally Championship 2010  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website