2008 Rally Catalunya

2008 Rally Catalunya 44è Rally RACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada 12 2008 World Rally Championship 2008 Rally New Zealand 2008 Tour de Corse Sébastien Loeb - 2008 Rally Catalunya.jpg Rally winner Sébastien Loeb. Salou October 2 5 2008 18 352.87 1359.96 Tarmac FRA Sébastien Loeb FRA Citroën Total World Rally Team Citroën C4 WRC 69 48 The 2008 Rally Catalunya, officially 44è Rally RACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada, was the 44th Rally Catalunya and the 12th round of the 2008 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place during October 2–5, 2008 and consisted of 18 special stages. The rally was won by Citroën Total World Rally Team's Sébastien Loeb ahead of his teammate Dani Sordo. This was Citroën's third double win in a row, after previous one-two finishes in Germany and New Zealand. BP Ford World Rally Team's Mikko Hirvonen and François Duval took comfortable third and fourth positions, although only battled with each other and never managed to challenge the Citroëns. Duval eased off in one stage to let Hirvonen, who continued his fight for the drivers' title with Loeb, to take the third place and one extra point. Subaru World Rally Team's Petter Solberg fought for fifth place with Urmo Aava until the penultimate stage, when Aava retired after making a mistake and breaking his Citroën C4 WRC's suspension. The battle for sixth place went down to the wire, with Stobart M-Sport Ford's Jari-Matti Latvala edging out Subaru's Chris Atkinson by 1.1 seconds. Andreas Mikkelsen drove his privateer Ford Focus RS WRC 07 to eighth place, taking the second points finish of his career. Results Pos. Driver Co-driver Car Time Difference Points WRC 1. FRA Sébastien Loeb MCO Daniel Elena Citroën C4 WRC 3:21:17.4 0.0 10 2. ESP Dani Sordo ESP Marc Marti Citroën C4 WRC 3:21:42.3 24.9 8 3. FIN Mikko Hirvonen FIN Jarmo Lehtinen Ford Focus RS WRC 07 3:22:19.9 1:02.5 6 4. BEL François Duval FRA Patrick Pivato Ford Focus RS WRC 07 3:22:28.2 1:10.8 5 5. NOR Petter Solberg GBR Phil Mills Subaru Impreza WRC 2008 3:24:44.8 3:27.4 4 6. FIN Jari-Matti Latvala FIN Miikka Anttila Ford Focus RS WRC 07 3:25:21.2 4:03.8 3 7. AUS Chris Atkinson BEL Stéphane Prévot Subaru Impreza WRC 2008 3:25:22.3 4:04.9 2 8. NOR Andreas Mikkelsen NOR Ola Floene Ford Focus RS WRC 07 3:26:37.0 5:19.6 1 Championship standings after the event Drivers' championship Pos Driver MONMonaco SWESweden MEXMexico ARGArgentina JORJordan ITAItaly GRCGreece TURTurkey FINFinland GERGermany NZLNew Zealand ESPSpain FRAFrance JPNJapan GBRUnited Kingdom  Pts  1 France Sébastien Loeb 1 Ret. 1 1 10 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 96 2 Finland Mikko Hirvonen 2 2 4 5 1 2 3 1 2 4 3 3 84 3 ESP Dani Sordo 11 6 17 3 2 5 5 4 4 2 2 2 59 4 Australia Chris Atkinson 3 21 2 2 3 6 Ret. 13 3 6 Ret. 7 42 5 Finland Jari-Matti Latvala 12 1 3 15 7 3 7 2 39 9 Ret. 6 376 Norway Petter Solberg 5 4 12 Ret. Ret. 10 2 6 6 5 4 5 36 7 NOR Henning Solberg 9 13 5 Ret. 4 7 8 5 5 7 9 11 22 8 Italy Gigi Galli 6 3 Ret. 7 8 4 Ret. Ret. Ret. Ret. Inj. Inj. 17 9 Belgium François Duval 4 3 Ret. 4 16 10 GBR Matthew Wilson 10 Ret. 6 Ret. 5 12 6 7 9 12 17 9 12 11 EST Urmo Aava 18 Ret. 8 4 Ret. 16 8 5 35 11 12 ARG Federico Villagra 7 6 6 14 13 9 Ret. 8 12 9 13 Zimbabwe Conrad Rautenbach Ret. 16 16 4 26 13 10 8 10 10 Ret. Ret. 6 14 NOR Andreas Mikkelsen 5 Ret. 19 12 11 8 5 15 FIN Toni Gardemeister Ret. 7 Ret. Ret. Ret. Ret. 9 Ret. 8 10 7 13 5 16 Sweden Per-Gunnar Andersson 8 Ret. Ret. 24 Ret. 9 11 Ret. Ret. 15 6 32 4 17 France Jean-Marie Cuoq 7 2 Finland Matti Rantanen 7 19 FIN Juho Hänninen 8 21 13 14 29 1 FRA Sébastien Ogier 8 11 22 36 19 Ret. AUT Andreas Aigner 31 8 14 11 Ret. Ret. Pos Driver MONMonaco SWESweden MEXMexico ARGArgentina JORJordan ITAItaly GRCGreece TURTurkey FINFinland GERGermany NZLNew Zealand ESPSpain FRAFrance JPNJapan GBRUnited Kingdom Pts Manufacturers' championship Rank Team Event Totalpoints MONMonaco SWESweden MEXMexico ARGArgentina JORJordan ITAItaly GRCGreece TURTurkey FINFinland GERGermany NZLNew Zealand ESPSpain FRAFrance JPNJapan GBRUnited Kingdom 1 France Citroën Total World Rally Team 11 4 10 16 9 14 15 11 15 18 18 18 - - - 159 2 United Kingdom BP Ford World Rally Team 8 18 11 7 13 14 10 18 9 7 6 11 - - - 132 3 Japan Subaru World Rally Team 10 6 9 8 6 3 8 3 9 7 5 6 - - - 80 4 United Kingdom Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team 8 8 3 3 7 5 3 4 4 6 0 4 - - - 55 5 Argentina Munchi's Ford World Rally Team 0 0 6 4 4 2 0 3 0 0 3 0 - - - 22 6 Japan Suzuki World Rally Team 2 3 0 1 0 1 3 0 2 1 7 0 - - - 20 External links Standings at eWRC Catalunya 2008 Catalunya Rally Category:Sport in the Province of Tarragona Category:2008 in Catalan sport