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Sordo up to third

News after SS11

By Franck Drui

23 October 2010 - 16:25

Dani Sordo edged ahead of third placed Jari-Matti Latvala on the repeated La Mussara stage and also took a bite out of the gap to second.

Sordo was just one-tenth slower than stage winner Sebastien Loeb to pull 5.4sec ahead of Latvala who dropped to fourth. The Spaniard now lies 13.9sec behind fellow C4 WRC driver Petter Solberg in second place.

Mikko Hirvonen collected a 30-second penalty for arriving at the stage start three minutes late. The Finn was delayed while he re-connected a turbo pipe that had come off on the previous test, costing him around four minutes. He completed Stage 11 in the sixth fastest time - just 2.1 seconds slower than his team-mate Latvala.

Overall standings after SS11:

Pos.	Driver	Car	Time
01	Sébastien LOEB	Citroën C4 WRC	2h29m36.9s
02	Petter SOLBERG	Citroën C4 WRC	+46.9s
03	Dani SORDO	Citroën C4 WRC	+1m00.8s
04	Jari-Matti LATVALA	Ford Focus WRC	+1m06.2s
05	Mikko HIRVONEN	Ford Focus WRC	+6m03.7s
06	Matthew WILSON	Ford Focus WRC	+6m06.6s
07	Frigyes TURÁN	Ford Focus WRC	+7m23.9s
08	Henning SOLBERG	Ford Fiesta S2000	+9m16.5s
09	Khalid AL QASSIMI	Ford Focus WRC	+9m27.3s
10	Ken BLOCK	Ford Focus WRC	+12m40.2s
11	Dennis KUIPERS	Ford Fiesta S2000	+13m48.7s
12	Yeray LEMES	Renault Clio S1600	+15m33.8s
13	Hans WEIJS	Citroën C2 S1600	+15m54.9s
14	Sébastien OGIER	Citroën C4 WRC	+17m14.6s
15	Hermann GASSNER	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	+17m25.5s