2009 Cyprus Rally

3rd round of the 2009 World Rally Championship 2009 Cyprus Rally 37th FxPro Cyprus Rally 3 Petter Solberg - 2009 Cyprus Rally 5.jpg Petter Solberg driving a Citroën Xsara WRC 2009 World Rally Championship 2009 Rally Norway 2009 Rally de Portugal Cyprus Cyprus Limassol, Cyprus March 13 March 15, 2009 14 332.07 Tarmac/Gravel FRA Sébastien Loeb FRA Citroën Total World Rally Team The 2009 Cyprus Rally, officially 37th FxPro Cyprus Rally, was the third round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season and was held between March 13 and March 15, 2009 in Limassol, Cyprus. Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena claimed the title and won the WRC's first mixed-surface round since 1996.http://www.rallye-info.com/article.asp?stid=7774 Loeb reaches his half century 2009-03-15 Rallye-Info.Com 2009-04-28 2012-02-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20120213213011/http://www.rallye-info.com/article.asp?stid=7774 dead The Cyprus Rally was last held in 2006, but was dropped along with Rally Australia in favour of new rallies such as Rally Norway, and Rally Ireland, and the returning Rally de Portugal. Its format changed to a mixed surface rally format from all-gravel rally.World Rally Championship - Rallies - FxPro Cyprus Rally Spyder RedSpy Ltd http://www.wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=401&desc=FxPro%20Cyprus%20Rally&season=2009&rally_id=CY https://web.archive.org/web/20091231041448/http://wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=401&desc=FxPro%20Cyprus%20Rally&season=2009&rally_id=CY 2009-12-31 dead 2009-05-03 The Cyprus Rally was the first rally since Rallye Sanremo - Rallye d'Italia in 1996 to host a mixed surfaced event. Day 1 was contested on tarmac, while days 2 & 3 were contested on rough gravel roads.February 2009 Results Pos.DriverCo-driverCarTimeDifferencePoints WRC 1. FRA Sébastien Loeb MON Daniel Elena Citroën C4 WRC 4:50:34.7 0.0 10 2. FIN Mikko Hirvonen FIN Jarmo Lehtinen Ford Focus RS WRC 08 4:51:01.9 +27.2 8 3. NOR Petter Solberg UK Phil Mills Citroën Xsara WRC 4:52:24.1 +1:49.4 6 4. ESP Dani Sordo ESP Marc Marti Citroën C4 WRC 4:53:01.0 +2:26.3 5 5. UK Matthew Wilson UK Scott Martin Ford Focus RS WRC 08 4:57:15.7 +6:41.0 4 6. ZIM Conrad Rautenbach UK Daniel Barritt Citroën C4 WRC 5:01:46.6 +11:11.9 3 7. ARG Federico Villagra ARG Jorge Perez Companc Ford Focus RS WRC 08 5:03:53.2 +13:18.5 2 8. UAE Khalid Al-Qassimi UK Michael Orr Ford Focus RS WRC 08 5:04:18.8 +13:44.1 1 JWRC 1. (14.) CZE Martin Prokop CZE Jan Tomanek Citroën C2 S1600 5:20:54.0 0.0 10 2. (17.) POL Michal Kosciuszko POL Maciek Szczepaniak Suzuki Swift S1600 5:22:30.8 +1:36.8 8 3. (21.) DEU Aaron Nicolai Burkart DEU Michael Koelbach Suzuki Swift S1600 5:40:42.9 +19:48.9 6 PWRC 1. (9.) SWE Patrik Sandell SWE Emil Axelsson Škoda Fabia S2000 5:10:11.3 0.0 10 2. (10.) POR Armindo Araujo POR Ramalho Miguel Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 5:10:29.6 +18.3 8 3. (11.) QAT Nasser Al-Attiyah ITA Giovanni Bernacchini Subaru Impreza N14 2009 5:11:10.1 +58.8 6 4. (13.) JPN Toshi Arai AUS Glenn MacNeal Subaru Impreza 2007 5:18:45.4 +8:34.1 5 5. (15.) LAT Andis Neiksans LAT Peteris Djirkals Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 5:21:46.6 +11:35.3 4 6. (16.) CYP Charalambos Timotheou CYP Savvas Laos Subaru Impreza N12b 5:22:01.7 +11:50.4 3 7. (19.) IND Gaurav Singh Gill UK David Senior Subaru Impreza 2008 5:31:22.2 +21:10.9 2 8. (20.) FRA Frederic Sauvan FRA Thibault Gorczyca Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 5:39:10.2 +28:58.9 1 Special stages DayStageTime (EET)NameLengthWinnerTimeAvg. spd.Rally leader 1(13 MAR) SS1 09:23 Panagia 1 30.33 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 22:01.3 82.68 km/h FRA Sébastien Loeb SS2 10:21 Mylikouri 1 7.37 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 5:33.9 79.53 km/h SS3 10:46 Gerakies 1 29.40 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 21:09.2 83.36 km/h SS4 14:34 Panagia 2 30.33 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 22:06.8 82.30 km/h SS5 15:32 Mylikouri 2 7.37 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 5:34.9 79.25 km/h SS6 15:57 Gerakies 2 29.40 km Spain Daniel Sordo 21:18.0 82.82 km/h 2(14 MAR) SS7 08:43 Anadiou Dam 1 11.70 km FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 11:02.4 63.59 km/h SS8 09:11 Pano Panagia 28.17 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 30:29.8 55.42 km/h SS9 11:19 Orkontas 18.54 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 18:36.5 59.77 km/h SS10 15:17 Xyliatos 30.94 km NOR Petter Solberg 28:16.1 65.66 km/h SS11 16:20 Kourdali 26.25 km NOR Petter Solberg 26:31.5 59.37 km/h 3(15 MAR) SS12 09:18 Foini 30.03 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 26:18.7 68.48 km/h SS13 10:49 Anadiou 40.54 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 39:27.2 61.66 km/h SS14 12:02 Anadiou Dam 2 11.70 km GBR Matthew Wilson 10:14.8 68.49 km/h Championship standings after the event Drivers' championship Pos Driver IRLIreland NORNorway CYPCyprus PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece POLPoland FINFinland AUSAustralia ESPSpain GBRUnited Kingdom  Pts  1 France Sébastien Loeb 1 1 130 2 Finland Mikko Hirvonen 3 2 222 3 Spain Dani Sordo 2 5 417 4 Norway Henning Solberg 4 4 18 10 5 NOR Petter Solberg 6 3 9 6 GBR Matthew Wilson 7 7 5 8 7 FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 14 3 126 8 Australia Chris Atkinson 54 9 France Sébastien Ogier 6 10 Ret3 Zimbabwe Conrad Rautenbach 18 Ret 63 11 Argentina Federico Villagra 72 UAE Khalid al-Qassimi 8 8 2 13 EST Urmo Aava 10 8 1 Pos Driver IRLIreland NORNorway CYPCyprus PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece POLPoland FINFinland AUSAustralia ESPSpain GBRUnited Kingdom Pts Manufacturers' championship Rank Driver 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 - - - - - - - - - 48 2 USA BP Ford World Rally Team 8 14 10 - - - - - - - - - 32 3 United Kingdom Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team 8 8 6 - - - - - - - - - 22 4 France Citroën Junior Team 5 2 4 - - - - - - - - - 11 5 ARG Munchi's Ford World Rally Team 0 0 3 - - - - - - - - - 3 References External links Official site Cyprus Category:Cyprus Rally Rally