2010 Rally México

Technopedia Center

Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
S1 Informatics S1 Information Systems S1 Information Technology S1 Computer Engineering S1 Electrical Engineering S1 Civil Engineering

faculty of Economics and Business
S1 Management S1 Accountancy

Faculty of Letters and Educational Sciences
S1 English literature S1 English language education S1 Mathematics education S1 Sports Education

2010 Rally México - Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from 2010 Rally Mexico)

Corona Rally México
Rally Guanajuato Bicentenario

Round 2 of the 2010 World Rally Championship

← Previous event

Next event →

Host country

Mexico

Rally base

León, Mexico

Dates run

March 5 – 7, 2010

Stages

22 (354.60 km; 220.34 miles)

Stage surface

Gravel

Overall distance

884.58 km (549.65 miles)^[1]

Statistics

Crews

30 at start, 25 at finish

Overall results

Overall winner

Sébastien Loeb

Citroën Total World Rally Team

The 2010 Rally México was the 23rd Rally Mexico and the second round of the 2010 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over March 5–7, and was based in León, in the Guanajuato region of the country. The event was part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and the 200th anniversary of its independence. The rally was also the second round of both the Production Car World Rally Championship and the Super 2000 World Rally Championship.

The stages of the rally mixed mountain peaks with flat open valleys. Due to the high altitude, engines struggle to breathe in the thin air, causing a twenty percent reduction in their output. Stage 20 of the rally — Sauz Seco — was cancelled prior to the event, on safety grounds.^[2]

Sébastien Loeb took his 55th career rally victory, leading from the end of the eleventh stage onwards.^[3] Loeb won by just over 24 seconds from another Citroën driver, Petter Solberg. Solberg had led the rally throughout the first leg, and only took second position on the final stage through the super special stage. Solberg's gain was Sébastien Ogier's loss, as the Citroën junior driver just missed out on equalling his best career result in the World Rally Championship. Solberg overturned a 0.6-second gap over the final 4.42 km (2.75 mi), taking Ogier by 1.1 seconds.

In the SWRC event, Xavier Pons took the victory after battling Martin Prokop throughout the event. In the end, the Spanish driver took victory by just seventeen seconds, as both finished inside the overall top ten, in eighth and ninth places respectively. Prokop moved into the championship lead with a second to go with his third in Sweden. Michał Kościuszko was third, but over half an hour behind Pons and Prokop, with Eyvind Brynildsen and Albert Llovera rounding out the class finishers.

In the PWRC, Armindo Araújo took victory by over three minutes from Toshi Arai. Miguel Baldoni, Benito Guerra and Gianluca Linari were the only other finishers. With Patrik Flodin absent, Araújo moved into a 15-point championship lead.

The rally also ran an event/class named "Rally America" which allowed cars legal in the similarly named but unrelated Rally America series to run on the same stages as the WRC cars. The 2010 event was notable for the participation of amateur driver Bill Caswell who drove a 1991 BMW 318i he bought for $500 over Craigslist alongside co-driver Ben Slocum to 3rd place in the class, much to the amusement of the other drivers.^[4]^[5]

Results

Event standings

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference	Points
Overall
1.	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3:42:41.7	0.0	25
2.	Petter Solberg	Phil Mills	Citroën C4 WRC	3:43:05.9	24.2	18
3.	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën C4 WRC	3:43:07.0	25.3	15
4.	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC 09	3:44:29.2	1:47.5	12
5.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Ford Focus RS WRC 09	3:44:56.8	2:15.1	10
6.	Henning Solberg	Ilka Minor	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	3:45:29.7	2:48.0	8
7.	Federico Villagra	Jorge Perez Companc	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	3:52:55.1	10:13.4	6
8.	Xavier Pons	Alex Haro	Ford Fiesta S2000	4:01:26.1	18:44.4	4
9.	Martin Prokop	Jan Tománek	Ford Fiesta S2000	4:01:43.7	19:02.0	2
10.	Armindo Araújo	Miguel Ramalho	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	4:04:14.2	21:32.5	1
SWRC
1. (8.)	Xavier Pons	Alex Haro	Ford Fiesta S2000	4:01:26.1	0.0	25
2. (9.)	Martin Prokop	Jan Tománek	Ford Fiesta S2000	4:01:43.7	17.6	18
3. (20.)	Michał Kościuszko	Maciek Szczepaniak	Ford Fiesta S2000	4:35:02.9	33:36.8	15
4. (21.)	Eyvind Brynildsen	Cato Menkerud	Škoda Fabia S2000	4:35:25.9	33:59.8	12
5. (22.)	Albert Llovera	Borja Rozada	Abarth Punto S2000	4:38:31.7	37:05.5	10
PWRC
1. (10.)	Armindo Araújo	Miguel Ramalho	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	4:04:14.2	0.0	25
2. (11.)	Toshi Arai	Daniel Barritt	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	4:07:30.9	3:16.7	18
3. (13.)	Miguel Angel Baldoni	José Diaz	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	4:13:27.2	9:13.0	15
4. (15.)	Benito Guerra	Javier Marín	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	4:23:23.8	19:09.6	12
5. (17.)	Gianluca Linari	Paolo Gregoriani	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	4:26:16.9	22:02.7	10

Special stages

Day	Stage	Time	Name	Length	Winner	Time	Avg. spd.	Rally leader
1 (5 Mar)	SS1	07:28	Alfaro 1	22.96 km	Petter Solberg^[6]	13:51.4	97.77 km/h	Petter Solberg
	SS2	09:01	Ortega 1	23.83 km	Petter Solberg	13:51.4	103.18 km/h
	SS3	10:39	El Cubilete 1	18.87 km	Petter Solberg	11:49.9	95.69 km/h
	SS4	10:57	Coca-Cola Street Stage 1	1.50 km	Sébastien Ogier	1:16.6	70.50 km/h
	SS5	12:17	Alfaro 2	22.96 km	Petter Solberg	13:56.1	98.86 km/h
	SS6	13:50	Ortega 2	23.83 km	Petter Solberg	13:41.2	104.47 km/h
	SS7	14:38	El Cubilete 2	18.87 km	Sébastien Ogier	11:38.9	97.20 km/h
	SS8	15:53	Super Special 1	2.21 km	Sébastien Ogier	1:37.5	81.60 km/h
	SS9	15:58	Super Special 2	2.21 km	Sébastien Ogier	1:36.9	82.11 km/h
2 (6 Mar)	SS10	07:54	Ibarilla 1	29.90 km	Sébastien Loeb	18:18.3	98.01 km/h
	SS11	09:17	Duarte 1	23.27 km	Sébastien Loeb	18:10.2	76.84 km/h	Sébastien Loeb
	SS12	10:08	Derramadero 1	23.28 km	Sébastien Loeb	14:03.7	99.33 km/h
	SS13	13:12	Coca-Cola Street Stage 2	1.50 km	Sébastien Loeb	1:15.3	71.71 km/h
	SS14	12:52	Ibarrilla 2	29.90 km	Sébastien Loeb	18:01.6	99.52 km/h
	SS15	14:55	Duarte 2	23.27 km	Sébastien Loeb	17:44.9	78.67 km/h
	SS16	15:06	Derramadero 2	23.28 km	Sébastien Loeb	13:50.4	100.92 km/h
	SS17	16:21	Super Special 3	2.21 km	Sébastien Loeb	1:39.1	80.28 km/h
	SS18	16:26	Super Special 4	2.21 km	Sébastien Ogier	1:38.1	81.10 km/h
3 (7 Mar)	SS19	08:43	Guanajuatito	29.13 km	Sébastien Ogier	19:47.8	88.29 km/h
	SS20	09:34	Sauz Seco	7.05 km	stage cancelled^[2]
	SS21	10:12	Comanjilla	17.88 km	Petter Solberg	10:16.2	104.46 km/h
	SS22	11:27	Super Special 5	4.42 km	Petter Solberg	3:12.7	82.57 km/h

Standings after the rally

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos.	Driver	Points
1	Sébastien Loeb	43
2	Mikko Hirvonen	37
3	Jari-Matti Latvala	25
4	Sebastien Ogier	25
5	Petter Solberg	20
6	Henning Solberg	16
7	Dani Sordo	12
8	Matthew Wilson	6
9	Federico Villagra	6
10	Mads Ostberg	4

Manufacturers' Championship standings

Pos.	Manufacturer	Points
1	BP Ford WRT	67
2	Citroen WRT	61
3	Citroen Junior Team	32
4	Stobart Ford	28
5	Munchi's Ford	8

References

^ "Rally Mexico Itinerary 2010" (PDF). World Rally Championship. Rally Mexico; International Sportsworld Communicators. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Rally organisers cancel SS20". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 2010-03-05. Archived from the original on 2010-03-10. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
^ "Sebastien Loeb of France wins Mexico Rally". USA Today. Gannett Company, Inc. 2010-03-08. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
^ Smith, Sam (22 March 2010). "How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers". Jalopnik.com. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
^ Slocum, Ben (14 March 2010). "www.worldrallysport.com/content/pirating-wrc-corona-rally-mexico-rally-america". Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
^ "SS1: Petter storms into an early lead". World Rally Championship. International Sportsworld Communicators. 2010-03-05. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-07.

External links

Results at official page
Results at eWRC-results.com

v t e Rally Mexico
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2023

2010 World Rally Championship

Teams

Citroën	Ford	Stobart Ford	Citroën Junior
1 Loeb 2 Sordo	3 Hirvonen 4 Latvala - Al Qassimi	5 Wilson 6 H. Solberg - Grönholm - Therman	7 Ogier 8 Räikkönen

Munchi's Ford	PSWRT Citroën	Monster Ford	Adapta Subaru
9 Villagra	11 P. Solberg	- Block	- Østberg

Rallies

Categories: