2009 Rally Poland

8th round of the 2009 World Rally Championship 2009 Rally Poland 66th ORLEN Platinum Rally Poland 2009 World Rally Championship 8 2009 Acropolis Rally 2009 Rally Finland POL Poland Mikołajki 25 28 June 2009 18 Gravel FIN Mikko Hirvonen UK BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team 48 34 The 2009 ORLEN Platinum Rally Poland was the 66th running of the Rally Poland and the eighth round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season. Rally Poland had previously been part of the WRC schedule during the inaugural 1973 season. The rally consisted of 18 special stages and was won by Ford's Mikko Hirvonen, who took his first-ever back-to-back victories. However, the team's celebration was subdued after Jari-Matti Latvala crashed out from second place on the final super special stage, losing important manufacturers' championship points.Matt Beer Hirvonen takes win and points lead Autosport http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/76606 28 June 2009 29 June 2009 Citroën's Dani Sordo then finished second and Stobart's Henning Solberg beat his brother Petter to take the final podium spot. Home country's Krzysztof Hołowczyc, a three-time winner of the event, finished sixth behind regular Stobart driver Matthew Wilson. This marked the first time a Polish driver scored WRC points in the history of the series.Solberg snatches a place on the podium Rally-Live.com http://rally.racing-live.com/en/headlines/news/detail/090628180733.shtml 28 June 2009 29 June 2009 Citroën's defending world champion Sébastien Loeb lost the drivers' championship lead by crashing out in the second rally in a row. However, he re-joined the event under superally rules and with mechanical problems for Andreas Mikkelsen, Mads Østberg and Sébastien Ogier, he had climbed back into the top ten. Citroën then issued team orders and Citroën Junior Team's Conrad Rautenbach and Evgeny Novikov both stopped for enough minutes to let the Frenchman take the eighth place, which eventually became seventh after Latvala's mistake. Results Pos.DriverCo-driverCarTimeDifferencePoints WRC 1 FIN Mikko Hirvonen FIN Jarmo Lehtinen Ford Focus RS WRC 09 3:07:27.5 0.0 10 2 ESP Dani Sordo ESP Marc Martí Citroën C4 WRC 3:08:37.8 +1:10.3 8 3 NOR Henning Solberg NOR Cato Menkerud Ford Focus RS WRC 08 3:09:33.2 +2:05.7 6 4 NOR Petter Solberg UK Phil Mills Citroën Xsara WRC 3:09:51.8 +2:24.3 5 5 UK Matthew Wilson UK Scott Martin Ford Focus RS WRC 08 3:11:45.0 +4:17.5 4 6 POL Krzysztof Hołowczyc POL Łukasz Kurzeja Ford Focus RS WRC 08 3:12:01.4 +4:33.9 3 7 FRA Sébastien Loeb MON Daniel Elena Citroën C4 WRC 3:26:42.6 +19:15.1 2 8 ZIM Conrad Rautenbach UK Daniel Barritt Citroën C4 WRC 3:26:48.1 +19:20.6 1 JWRC 1 NED Kevin Abbring BEL Erwin Mombaerts Renault Clio R3 3:35:05.2 0.0 10 2 CZE Martin Prokop CZE Jan Tománek Citroën C2 S1600 3:36:15.4 +1:10.2 8 3 FRA Yoann Bonato FRA Benjamin Boulloud Suzuki Swift S1600 3:40:39.7 +5:34.5 6 4 NED Hans Weijs BEL Bjorn Degandt Citroën C2 S1600 3:45:17.2 +10:12.0 5 5 ITA Simone Bertolotti ITA Luca Celestini Suzuki Swift S1600 3:51:50.3 +16:45.1 4 6 POL Radosław Typa POL Maciej Wisławski Citroën C2 R2 3:56:32.3 +21:27.1 3 7 ITA Luca Griotti ITA Corrado Bonato Renault Clio R3 4:00:53.6 +25:48.4 2 Special stages DayStageTime (CEST)NameLengthWinnerTimeRally leader1(June 25) SS1 20:00Mikołajki 1 2.50 km NOR Petter Solberg 1:48.3 NOR Petter Solberg2(June 26) SS2 9:51Grabówka 1 12.09 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 6:49.7 FRA Sébastien Loeb SS3 10:19Pianki 1 11.34 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 5:22.2 FIN Mikko Hirvonen SS4 10:39Paprotki 1 33.17 km FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 18:14.0 SS5 14:01Grabówka 2 12.09 km FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 6:49.3 SS6 14:29Pianki 2 11.34 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 5:15.4 SS7 14:59Paprotki 2 33.17 km FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 17:57.23(June 27) SS8 10:14Danowo 1 11.88 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 6:18.1 SS9 10:59Gawliki 1 32.75 km ESP Dani Sordo 17:44.4 SS10 11:52Wydminy 1 30.09 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 15:40.9 SS11 15:18Danowo 2 11.88 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 6:12.5 SS12 16:03Gawliki 2 32.75 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 17:21.1 SS13 16:56Wydminy 2 30.09 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 15:26.94(June 28) SS14 7:51Miłki 1 27.07 km FRA Sébastien Ogier 13:59.3 SS15 8:57Tros 1 15.11 km NOR Henning Solberg 7:53.2 SS16 11:49Miłki 2 27.07 km NOR Henning Solberg 13:56.0 SS17 12:55Tros 2 15.11 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 7:44.4 SS18 14:24Mikołajki 2 2.50 km NOR Petter Solberg 1:49.0 Championship standings after the event Drivers' championship Pos Driver IRLIreland NORNorway CYPCyprus PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece POLPoland FINFinland AUSAustralia ESPSpain GBRUnited Kingdom  Pts  1 Finland Mikko Hirvonen 3 2 2 2 Ret 2 1 158 2 France Sébastien Loeb 1 1 1 1 1 4 Ret 757 3 Spain Dani Sordo 2 5 4 3 2 23 12 239 4 Norway Henning Solberg 4 4 18 5 3 8 15 3 27 5 FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 14 3 12 Ret 6 1 3 Ret25 NOR Petter Solberg 6 3 4 Ret 3 Ret 4 25 7 GBR Matthew Wilson 7 7 5 Ret 5 6 14 5 19 8 Argentina Federico Villagra 7 7 4 Ret 414 9 France Sébastien Ogier 6 10 Ret 17 7 Ret 2 Ret13 10 Zimbabwe Conrad Rautenbach 18 Ret 6 Ret Ret 9 5 88 11 NOR Mads Østberg 9 6 7 7 Ret 7 12 UAE Khalid al-Qassimi 8 8 8 16 6 6 13 RUS Evgeny Novikov 12 Ret Ret 5 16 94 Australia Chris Atkinson 54 15 Poland Krzysztof Hołowczyc 6 3 16 Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah 11 16 8 10 9 1 EST Urmo Aava 10 8 1 Greece Lambros Athanassoulas 8 1 Pos Driver IRLIreland NORNorway CYPCyprus PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece POLPoland FINFinland AUSAustralia ESPSpain GBRUnited Kingdom Pts Manufacturers' championship Pos Team Event Totalpoints IRLIreland NORNorway CYPCyprus PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece POLPoland FINFinland AUSAustralia ESPSpain GBRUnited Kingdom 1 France Citroën Total World Rally Team 18 14 16 16 18 8 4 12 106 2 USA BP Ford World Rally Team 8 14 10 8 3 18 18 10 89 3 United Kingdom Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team 8 8 6 5 10 7 5 11 60 4 France Citroën Junior Team 5 2 4 0 2 5 6 5 29 5 ARG Munchi's Ford World Rally Team 0 0 3 4 5 0 6 0 18 References External links Full results at WRC.com Poland Category:Rally of Poland Rally Poland