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After SS14: Mikkelsen fastest, Neuville wins

Bouffier started the stage in fourth overall but crashed out

By Franck Drui

14 May 2011 - 21:05

Thierry Neuville has completed the final stage of Tour de Corse-E.Leclerc with the second fastest time to claim his maiden Intercontinental Rally Challenge win in his Team Peugeot Belgium-Luxembourg 207 Super 2000.

The Belgian trailed Škoda UK Motorsport driver Andreas Mikkelsen through the test but it was enough to beat Jan Kopecký in the overall classification by 15.5s. Freddy Loix took third in his BFO Fabia.

Bryan Bouffier started the stage in fourth overall but crashed out, handing the place back to Pierre Campana, despite the Corsican stopping to change a front-right puncture.

Peugeot Sport Portugal’s Bruno Magalhães was 10.4s faster than Julien Maurin through the stage to move ahead of the M-Sport Ford Fiesta driver to fifth in the overall classification.

Toni Gardemeister completed the stage with his Fabia stuck in gear.

Final standings - after SS14:

Pos.	Driver	Car	Time
1	Neuville Thierry / Gilsoul Nicolas	Peugeot 207 S2000	3h20m51.0s
2	Kopecký Jan / Starý Petr	Škoda Fabia S2000	+15.5s
3	Loix Freddy / Miclotte Frédéric	Škoda Fabia S2000	+47.1s
4	Campana Pierre / De Castelli Sabrina	Peugeot 207 S2000	+3m59.5s
5	Magalhaes Bruno / Grave Paulo	Peugeot 207 S2000	+4m28.2s
6	Mikkelsen Andreas / Floene Ola	Škoda Fabia S2000	+4m30.1s
7	Maurin Julien / Ural Olivier	Ford Fiesta S2000	+4m33.3s
8	Gardemeister Toni / Suominen Tapio	Škoda Fabia S2000	+6m33.3s
9	Sandell Patrick / Parmander Staffan	Škoda Fabia S2000	+8m28.8s
10	Leandri Jean-Mathieu / Leonardi Pierre-Marien	Peugeot 207 S2000	+9m41.5s
11	Gonon Florian / Arlettaz Sandra	Subaru Impreza Sti	+12m09.0s
12	Guglielmi Pierre-Antoine / Porcu Jean-François	Renault Clio R3	+12m31.4s
13	Arai Toshihiro / Moscatt Dale	Subaru Impreza R4	+12m58.2s
14	Al Rajhi Yazeed / Baumel Mathieu	Peugeot 207 S2000	+13m50.3s
15	Fiori Guy / Ferrero Jean-Jacques	Renault Clio S1600	+15m39.2s