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Charging Sordo up to second

News after SS7

By Franck Drui

1 October 2010 - 16:41

After Jari-Matti Latvala’s attack on SS5, Dani Sordo put his foot down on the two stages which followed - extending the gap to the chasing Finn and moving from fourth to second place.

After relaxing a little on SS5, Sebastien Loeb was back to his stage winning best on SS6 with his Citroen Total team-mate his closest rival. Sordo’s time was enough to move him ahead of Petter Solberg into third place.

Better was to come on SS7, however, when an outright stage win for Sordo edged him ahead of his Citroen rival Sebastien Ogier and into second - 21.2sec behind Loeb.

Latvala meanwhile was sixth and fifth fastest on SS5 and SS6, to hold fifth place in the overall standings.

Overall standings after SS7:

Pos.	Driver	Car	Time
01	Sébastien LOEB	Citroën C4 WRC	1h03m55.1s
02	Dani SORDO	Citroën C4 WRC	+21.2s
03	Sébastien OGIER	Citroën C4 WRC	+23.0s
04	Petter SOLBERG	Citroën C4 WRC	+34.4s
05	Jari-Matti LATVALA	Ford Focus WRC	+46.0s
06	Mikko HIRVONEN	Ford Focus WRC	+1m27.1s
07	Kimi RAIKKONEN	Citroën C4 WRC	+2m56.8s
08	Frigyes TURAN	Peugeot 307 WRC	+4m18.8s
09	Federico VILLAGRA	Ford Focus WRC	+4m40.7s
10	Matthew WILSON	Ford Focus WRC	+5m00.5s
11	Ken BLOCK	Ford Focus WRC	+5m27.7s
12	Khalid AL QASSIMI	Ford Focus WRC	+5m41.5s
13	Andreas MIKKELSEN	Skoda Fabia S2000	+6m22.8s
14	Henning SOLBERG	Ford Fiesta S2000	+6m22.9s
15	Eyvind BRYNILDSEN	Skoda Fabia S2000	+6m52.4s