2007 Wales Rally GB

Rally car race 2007 Rally GB 63rd Wales Rally of Great Britain 16 2007 World Rally Championship 2007 Rally Ireland Mikko Hirvonen-2007 Wales Rally GB 002.jpg Rally winner Mikko Hirvonen. Cardiff, Wales November 30 December 2, 2007 17 359.54 Gravel FIN Mikko Hirvonen GBR BP Ford World Rally Team 108 83 The 2007 Wales Rally GB (formally known as 63rd Wales Rally of Great Britain) was the 16th round of the 2007 World Rally Championship. The race was held over three days between 30 November and 2 December 2007. Report Sébastien Loeb became world champion for the fourth time in a row. He had thus equaled Tommi Mäkinen's record. Third place at the season finale in Wales was enough for the Citroën driver. Loeb started the last world championship race of the season six points ahead of his rival Marcus Grönholm. Grönholm was able to make up two points with second place, and in the end Loeb had a four-point lead in the drivers' standings. Rally won Grönholm teammate Mikko Hirvonen. He took the lead with four special stage best times on Friday. Hirvonen was 15.2 seconds clear of second-placed Gronholm to secure his fourth WRC win of his career. Subaru driver Petter Solberg came fourth behind the leading trio. He was able to conclude such a season with moderate success in a reasonably forgiving manner. Fourth place and his teammate Chris Atkinson's seventh place secured Subaru third place in the Manufacturers' Championship ahead of the Stobart team. Days two and three were dominated by young M-Sport driver Jari-Matti Latvala, who had already been confirmed as a driver for Ford for next year. However, since he had lost almost ten minutes on the first day due to a broken windshield wiper, he was only able to finish tenth. Results Pos. Driver Co-driver Car Time Difference Points WRC 1. FIN Mikko Hirvonen FIN Jarmo Lehtinen Ford Focus RS WRC 07 3:22:50.9 0.0 10 2. FIN Marcus Grönholm FIN Timo Rautiainen Ford Focus RS WRC 07 3:23:06.1 15.2 8 3. FRA Sébastien Loeb MCO Daniel Elena Citroën C4 WRC 3:24:23.9 1:33.0 6 4. NOR Petter Solberg GBR Phil Mills Subaru Impreza WRC2007 3:25:48.2 2:57.3 5 5. ESP Dani Sordo ESP Marc Marti Citroën C4 WRC 3:26:05.2 3:14.3 4 6. GBR Matthew Wilson IRL Michael Orr Ford Focus WRC 06 3:30:23.8 7:32.9 3 7. AUS Chris Atkinson BEL Stéphane Prévot Subaru Impreza WRC2007 3:31:20.4 8:29.5 2 8. AUT Manfred Stohl AUT Ilka Minor Citroën Xsara WRC 3:31:45.5 8:54.6 1 PCWRC 1. (13.) GBR Guy Wilks GBR Phil Pugh Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 3:44:23.7 0.0 10 2. (14.) FIN Juho Hänninen FIN Mikko Markkula Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 3:44:57.9 34.2 8 3. (16.) GBR Mark Higgins GBR Scott Martin Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 3:46:10.2 1:46.5 6 4. (17.) ITA Alessandro Bettega ITA Simone Scattolin Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 3:49:47.3 5:23.6 5 5. (19.) GBR David Higgins GBR Ieuan Thomas Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3:51:32.8 7:09.1 4 6. (21.) SMR Mirco Baldacci ITA Giovanni Agnese Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3:53:12.8 8:49.1 3 7. (23.) PRT Armindo Araújo PRT Miguel Ramalho Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 4:00:58.9 16:35.2 2 8. (23.) CZE Štěpán Vojtěch CZE Michal Ernst Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 4:02:31.4 18:07.7 1 Retirements ARG Gabriel Pozzo - retired (SS6); POL Michał Sołowow - retired (SS6); ROU Claudiu David - mechanical (SS7); ZWE Conrad Rautenbach - went off the road (SS8); NOR Andreas Mikkelsen - went off the road (SS9); GBR Stuart Jones - crashed (SS12); POL Leszek Kuzaj - did not start leg 3 (SS13/14); NZL Hayden Paddon - did not start leg 3 (SS13/14); CYP Spyros Pavlides - mechanical (SS14); RUS Yevgeni Vertunov - mechanical (SS14); ARG Luís Pérez Companc - went off the road (SS14/15); SWE Patrik Flodin - mechanical (SS6); Special Stages All dates and times are GMT (UTC). LegStageTimeNameLengthWinnerTimeAvg. spd.Rally leader1(30 Nov) SS1 09:53 Port Talbot 1 17.41 km FIN M. Hirvonen 9:15.2 112.9 km/h FIN M. Hirvonen SS2 10:41 Resolfen 1 25.08 km FIN M. Hirvonen 12:50.6 117.2 km/h SS3 11:39 Rheola 1 27.91 km FIN M. Hirvonen 15:55.7 105.1 km/h SS4 14:10 Port Talbot 2 17.41 km FIN M. Hirvonen 9:17.2 112 km/h SS5 14:58 Resolfen 2 25.08 km FRA S. LoebFIN M. Grönholm 13:20.9 112.7 km/h SS6 16:23 Rheola 2 27.91 km FIN J. Latvala 16:39.3 100.5 km/h2(1 Dec) SS7 09:38 Crychan 1 19.56 km FIN J. Latvala 10:31.2 111.6 km/h SS8 10:21 Epynt 1 13.76 km FIN J. Latvala 7:33.2 109.3 km/h SS9 10:54 Halfway 1 18.37 km FIN J. Latvala 10:28.3 105.3 km/h SS10 14:47 Crychan 2 19.56 km FIN J. Latvala 10:39.8 110.1 km/h SS11 15:30 Epynt 2 13.76 km FIN J. Latvala 7:40.1 107.7 km/h SS12 16:29 Halfway 2 18.37 km FIN J. Latvala 10:39.6 103.4 km/h SS13 19:00 Cardiff 1.10 km FIN M. Grönholm 1:03.8 62.1 km/h3(2 Dec) SS14 07:46 Brechfa 1 28.89 km FIN J. LatvalaFIN M. Hirvonen 16:14.2 106.8 km/h SS15 08:33 Trawscoed 1 28.24 km FIN J. Latvala 16:39.7 101.7 km/h SS16 12:09 Brechfa 2 28.89 km FIN J. Latvala 16:11.6 107.0 km/h SS17 12:56 Trawscoed 2 28.24 km FIN J. Latvala 16:51.0 100.6 km/h Final championship standings Drivers' championship Pos Driver MONMonaco SWESweden NORNorway MEXMexico PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece FINFinland GERGermany NZLNew Zealand ESPSpain FRAFrance JPNJapan IRLIreland GBRUnited Kingdom  Pts  1 France Sébastien Loeb 1 2 14 1 1 1Ret 2 3 1 2 1 1Ret 1 3 116 2 Finland Marcus Grönholm 3 1 2 2 4 2 1 1 1 4 1 3 2RetRet 2 112 3 Finland Mikko Hirvonen 5 3 1 3 5 3 2 4 2 3 3 4 13 1 4 1 99 4 Spain Dani Sordo 2 12 25 4 3 6 3 24RetRet 6 2 3 2 2 5 65 5 Norway Petter Solberg 6Ret 4Ret 2Ret 5 3Ret 6 7 6 5Ret 5 4 47 6 Norway Henning Solberg 14 4 3 9 9 5 4 5 5 13 9 10 9 3 16 15 34 7 Australia Chris Atkinson 4 8 19 5Ret 7 10 6 4 15 4 8 6Ret 42 7 31 8 Finland Jari-Matti LatvalaRetRet 5 7 8 4 9 12Ret 8 5 7 4 26 3 10 30 9 Austria Manfred Stohl 10 7 12 6 10 8 7 8RetRet 12Ret 14 6Ret 8 13 10 Belgium François DuvalRet 2 5Ret 12 11 United Kingdom Matthew Wilson 12Ret 26 8 12 30 12 10 10 9 10 11Ret 4 7 6 11 12 Czech Republic Jan Kopecký 8 10 8 22Ret 7Ret 5Ret 7 12 10 Finland Toni Gardemeister 7 6Ret DSQ 6 7 10 14 Sweden Daniel Carlsson 5 7 6Ret 9 15 Italy Gigi Galli 13 6 7 516 Argentina Luís Pérez Companc 15 19DNS 28Ret 11 11 23Ret 5Ret 4 Spain Xavier Pons 25Ret 16 6 18Ret 9 8 36Ret 9 418 United Kingdom Guy WilksRetRet 9 9 10 6 13 3 Estonia Urmo Aava 28 15 13 14 7 12 8 18Ret 18 3 20 Argentina Federico VillagraDNS 9 11 32 14 11 13 7 18 221 Finland Juho Hänninen DSQ 17 11 8RetRet 19 23 24 1 Norway Mads Østberg 9 37RetRet 8 11 1 Japan Katsuhiko Taguchi 8 1 Ireland Gareth MacHale 11Ret 13Ret 8 1 Pos Driver MONMonaco SWESweden NORNorway MEXMexico PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece FINFinland GERGermany NZLNew Zealand ESPSpain FRAFrance JPNJapan IRLIreland GBRUnited Kingdom  Pts  Manufacturers' championship Rank Manufacturer Event Totalpoints MONMonaco SWESweden NORNorway MEXMexico PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece FINFinland GERGermany NZLNew Zealand ESPSpain FRAFrance JPNJapan IRLIreland GBRUnited Kingdom 1 BP Ford World Rally Team 10 16 18 14 9 14 18 15 18 11 16 11 9 10 5 18 212 2 Citroën Total World Rally Team 18 9 1 15 16 13 6 8 6 10 11 18 16 8 18 10 183 3 Subaru World Rally Team 8 2 5 4 8 2 5 9 5 5 7 4 7 2 6 8 87 4 Stobart VK M-Sport Ford 1 5 10 3 2 9 7 4 4 5 5 2 7 7 9 1 81 5 OMV Kronos 2 7 5 3 4 1 3 2 0 8 0 4 0 4 0 2 45 6 Munchi's Ford World Rally Team 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 8 0 14 External links Results on the official site: WRC.com Results on eWRC.com Results at Jonkka's World Rally Archive Wales Category:Rally GB Wales Rally Wales Rally GB Wales Rally GB