Rally Italy 2007

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Racing data
7th of 16 rounds of the 2007 World Rally Championship
Surname: Rally Sardinia
Date: 18.-20. May 2007
Begin: Olbia
Exams: 18 tests over 342.86 km
Distance: 1,061.84 km
Covering: gravel
Podium
First: FinlandFinland Marcus Grönholm Ford Abu Dhabi WRT
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Second: FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen Ford Abu Dhabi WRT
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Third: SpainSpain Dani Sordo Citroën Total World Rally Team
FranceFrance
Grönholm / Rautiainen (Ford Focus RS WRC)

The 4th Sardinia Rally (also known as Rally Italy ) was the seventh of 16 FIA World Championship races in 2007. The rally consisted of 18 special stages and was held between May 18th and 20th.

Race report

On Saturday evening, Marcus Grönholm (Ford) no longer had high hopes for victory. After a few technical problems, Sébastien Loeb (Citroën) drove away by over 36 seconds. On Sunday the tide turned in Grönholm's favor. After a spin, Loeb got stuck in the ditch and was eliminated. In the drivers' world championship table, too, Grönholm overtook Loeb again and was now in the lead with seven points.

Mikko Hirvonen , who won a total of three special stages, made the Ford one-two perfect. He helped Ford to a second one-two of the current season. In the manufacturers' championship, Ford was able to extend its lead over Citroën to 20 points. In the drivers' championship, Hirvonen remained third, four points behind Loeb.

Third place was contested to the end. Citroën driver Dani Sordo was able to successfully defend this in a duel against Henning Solberg (Ford). In the last special stage, Sordo was second fastest behind Hirvonen, Solberg slowed down a bit and finished tenth, giving Sordo a 14.8 second lead in the end.

Classifications

Bottom line

Item driver Co-driver automobile time Residue Points
WRC
1 FinlandFinland Marcus Grönholm FinlandFinland Timo Rautiainen Ford Focus RS WRC 3: 48: 42.0 10
2 FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen FinlandFinland Jarmo Lehtinen Ford Focus RS WRC 3: 49: 11.2 00: 29.2 8th
3 SpainSpain Daniel Sordo SpainSpain Marc Marti Citroën C4 WRC 3: 50: 03.8 1: 21.8 6th
4th NorwayNorway Henning Solberg NorwayNorway Cato Menkerud Ford Focus RS WRC 3: 50: 18.6 01: 36.6 5
5 NorwayNorway Petter Solberg United KingdomUnited Kingdom Phil Mills Subaru Impreza WRC 3: 51: 16.2 02: 34.2 4th
6th FinlandFinland Toni Gardemeister FinlandFinland Jakke Honkanen Mitsubishi Lancer WRC 3: 53: 44.1 05: 02.1 3
7th AustriaAustria Manfred Stohl AustriaAustria Ilka Minor Citroën Xsara WRC 3: 54: 10.6 05: 28.6 2
8th FinlandFinland Juho Hänninen FinlandFinland Mikko Markkula Mitsubishi Lancer WRC 3: 58: 13.7 09: 31.7 1
JWRC
1 (13) EstoniaEstonia Urmo Aava EstoniaEstonia Kuldar Sikk Suzuki Swift S1600 4:15: 03.9 26: 21.9 10
2 (14) SwedenSweden Per-Gunnar Andersson SwedenSweden Jonas Andersson Suzuki Swift S1600 4: 16: 13.3 27: 31.3 8th
3 (16) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Martin Prokop Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jan Tománek Citroën C2 S1600 4: 21: 26.7 32: 44.7 6th
4 (18) GermanyGermany Aaron Burkart GermanyGermany Michael Koelbach Citroën C2 S1600 4: 24: 13.8 35: 31.8 5
5 (19) EstoniaEstonia Jaan Mölder Jr. GermanyGermany Katrin Becker Suzuki Swift S1600 4: 24: 44.2 36: 02.2 4th
6 (25) SlovakiaSlovakia Jozef Béreš jr. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Petr Starý Renault Clio S1600 4:30:15 41: 33.0 3
7 (29) FranceFrance Bryan Bouffier FranceFrance Matthieu Baumel Citroën C2 R2 4: 35: 02.8 46: 20.8 2
8 (31) SwedenSweden Patrik Sandell SwedenSweden Emil Axelsson Renault Clio 16S 4: 37: 43.1 49: 01.1 1

Special stages

Day WP
number 		Start CET WP name length driver automobile time Ø km / h leader
Day 1
May 18th 		WP1 09:43 Crastazza 1 31.12 km FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala Ford Focus RS WRC 21: 27.8 86.99 km / h FinlandFinland Jari-Matti Latvala
WP2 10:58 Terranova 1 21.20 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb Citroën C4 WRC 15: 14.9 83.42 km / h
WP3 11:34 Monte Olia 1 20.36 km NorwayNorway Henning Solberg Ford Focus RS WRC 14: 52.7 82.11 km / h
WP4 14:53 Crastazza 2 31.12 km FinlandFinland Marcus Grönholm Ford Focus RS WRC 20: 51.9 89.49 km / h FinlandFinland Marcus Grönholm
WP5 16:08 Terranova 2 21.20 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb Citroën C4 WRC 14: 44.9 86.25 km / h
WP6 16:44 Monte Olia 2 20.36 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb Citroën C4 WRC 14: 30.9 84.16 km / h FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb
Day 2
May 19th 		WP7 09:25 Loelle 1 22.56 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb Citroën C4 WRC 13: 40.6 98.97 km / h
WP8 10:25 Monte Lerno 1 29.30 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb Citroën C4 WRC 19: 23.3 90.67 km / h
WP9 11:10 Su Filigosu 1 19.47 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb Citroën C4 WRC 12: 36.3 92.68 km / h
WP10 14:45 Loelle 2 22.56 km FinlandFinland Marcus Grönholm Ford Focus RS WRC 13: 31.6 100.07 km / h
WP11 15:45 Mento Lerno 2 29.30 km FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb Citroën C4 WRC 18: 58.7 92.63 km / h
WP12 16:30 Su Filigosu 2 19.47 km FinlandFinland Marcus Grönholm Ford Focus RS WRC 12: 19.3 94.81 km / h
Day 3
May 20th 		WP13 07:55 S. Giovanni 1 10.65 km FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen Ford Focus RS WRC 7: 21.9 86.76 km / h FinlandFinland Marcus Grönholm
WP14 09:06 Monte Nuragone 1 7.67 km NorwayNorway Henning Solberg Ford Focus RS WRC 5: 37.3 81.86 km / h
WP15 09:50 Braniatogghiu 1 9.30 km FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen Ford Focus RS WRC 4: 38.0 120.43 km / h
WP16 10:57 S. Giovanni 2 10.65 km SpainSpain Daniel Sordo Citroën C4 WRC 7: 06.4 89.92 km / h
WP17 12:08 Monte Nuragone 2 7.67 km NorwayNorway Henning Solberg Ford Focus RS WRC 5: 29.4 83.83 km / h
WP18 12:52 Braniatogghiu 2 9.30 km FinlandFinland Mikko Hirvonen Ford Focus RS WRC 4: 31.3 123.41 km / h

Source:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ motorsport-total.com: Double victory for Ford , accessed on December 28, 2015
  2. ↑ ewrc-results.com: 4th Rally d'Italia Sardegna 2007 , accessed on December 28, 2015

Web links

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