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SS9: Latvala’s advantage trimmed to 15 seconds

Stage win for Sebastien Loeb

By Franck Drui

28 May 2011 - 15:51

Jari-Matti Latvala’s overall lead of Rally Argentina has been trimmed to 15 seconds following stage nine, the 16.57-kilometre Las Bajadas-Villa del Dique test.

Running first on the road, Latvala expected to lose some time on the all-gravel stage in his Ford Fiesta RS WRC and ended up fifth fastest, 12.3s behind stage winner Sebastien Loeb, who is running fifth on the road in his factory Citroen DS3 WRC.

Petter Solberg was second fastest through the run and is now 1.5s behind fellow DS3 WRC driver Sebastien Ogier in the overall standings.

Standings after SS9:

Pos.	Driver	Car	Time
01	J. LATVALA / M. ANTTILA	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	2h10m44.0s
02	S. OGIER / J. INGRASSIA	Citroën DS3 WRC	+15.0s
03	P. SOLBERG / C. PATTERSSON	Citroën DS3 WRC	+16.5s
04	M. HIRVONEN / J. LEHTINEN	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	+41.9s
05	S. LOEB / D. ELENA	Citroën DS3 WRC	+1m23.6s
06	M. ØSTBERG / J. ANDERSSON	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	+3m22.3s
07	M. WILSON / S. MARTIN	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	+3m56.6s
08	F. VILLAGRA / J. PÉREZ COMPANC	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	+4m08.5s
09	K. BLOCK / A. GELSOMINO	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	+8m14.2s
10	H. PADDON / J. KENNARD	Subaru Impreza	+14m17.3s
11	D. TAGIROV / A. ZAVERSHINSKAYA	Subaru Impreza	+22m09.8s
12	A. LEVY / D. LEVY	Mitsubishi Evo IX	+22m44.0s
13	P. FLODIN / M. ANDERSSON	Subaru Impreza	+23m04.4s
14	M. KOSCIUSZKO / M. SZCZEPANIAK	Mitsubishi Evo X	+23m22.5s
15	A. KREMER / K. WICHA	Mitsubishi Evo X	+26m16.0s