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2010 Rally México


FieldValue
nameCorona Rally México
native_nameRally Guanajuato Bicentenario
round2
championship2010 World Rally Championship
previous_round2010 Rally Sweden
next_round2010 Jordan Rally
country
imageWRC Rally Driver Jose Manuel Ponce.jpg
rallybaseLeón, Mexico
startdateMarch 5
enddate7, 2010
stages22
stagekm354.60
overallkm884.58overallkm_note=
surfaceGravel
driver1FRA Sébastien Loeb
team1FRA Citroën Total World Rally Team
teamsstart30
teamsfinish25

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.

Sébastien Loeb took his 55th career rally victory, leading from the end of the eleventh stage onwards. 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, 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.

Results

Event standings

Pos.DriverCo-driverCarTimeDifferencePointsOverall251815121086421SWRC2518151210PWRC2518151210
1.FRA Sébastien LoebMON Daniel ElenaCitroën C4 WRC3:42:41.70.0
2.NOR Petter SolbergGBR Phil MillsCitroën C4 WRC3:43:05.924.2
3.FRA Sébastien OgierFRA Julien IngrassiaCitroën C4 WRC3:43:07.025.3
4.FIN Mikko HirvonenFIN Jarmo LehtinenFord Focus RS WRC 093:44:29.21:47.5
5.FIN Jari-Matti LatvalaFIN Miikka AnttilaFord Focus RS WRC 093:44:56.82:15.1
6.NOR Henning SolbergAUT Ilka MinorFord Focus RS WRC 083:45:29.72:48.0
7.ARG Federico VillagraARG Jorge Perez CompancFord Focus RS WRC 083:52:55.110:13.4
8.ESP Xavier PonsESP Alex HaroFord Fiesta S20004:01:26.118:44.4
9.CZE Martin ProkopCZE Jan TománekFord Fiesta S20004:01:43.719:02.0
10.POR Armindo AraújoPOR Miguel RamalhoMitsubishi Lancer Evolution X4:04:14.221:32.5
1. (8.)ESP Xavier PonsESP Alex HaroFord Fiesta S20004:01:26.10.0
2. (9.)CZE Martin ProkopCZE Jan TománekFord Fiesta S20004:01:43.717.6
3. (20.)POL Michał KościuszkoPOL Maciek SzczepaniakFord Fiesta S20004:35:02.933:36.8
4. (21.)NOR Eyvind BrynildsenNOR Cato MenkerudŠkoda Fabia S20004:35:25.933:59.8
5. (22.)AND Albert LloveraESP Borja RozadaAbarth Punto S20004:38:31.737:05.5
1. (10.)POR Armindo AraújoPOR Miguel RamalhoMitsubishi Lancer Evolution X4:04:14.20.0
2. (11.)JPN Toshi AraiGBR Daniel BarrittSubaru Impreza WRX STi4:07:30.93:16.7
3. (13.)ARG Miguel Angel BaldoniARG José DiazMitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX4:13:27.29:13.0
4. (15.)MEX Benito GuerraMEX Javier MarínMitsubishi Lancer Evolution X4:23:23.819:09.6
5. (17.)ITA Gianluca LinariITA Paolo GregorianiSubaru Impreza WRX STi4:26:16.922:02.7

Special stages

All dates and times are CST (UTC−6).

DayStageTimeNameLengthWinnerTimeAvg. spd.Rally leader1
(5 Mar)SS107:28SS209:01SS310:39SS410:57SS512:17SS613:50SS714:38SS815:53SS915:582
(6 Mar)SS1007:54SS1109:17SS1210:08SS1313:12SS1412:52SS1514:55SS1615:06SS1716:21SS1816:263
(7 Mar)SS1908:43SS2009:34SS2110:12SS2211:27
Alfaro 122.96 kmNOR Petter Solberg13:51.497.77 km/hNOR Petter Solberg
Ortega 123.83 kmNOR Petter Solberg13:51.4103.18 km/h
El Cubilete 118.87 kmNOR Petter Solberg11:49.995.69 km/h
Coca-Cola Street Stage 11.50 kmFRA Sébastien Ogier1:16.670.50 km/h
Alfaro 222.96 kmNOR Petter Solberg13:56.198.86 km/h
Ortega 223.83 kmNOR Petter Solberg13:41.2104.47 km/h
El Cubilete 218.87 kmFRA Sébastien Ogier11:38.997.20 km/h
Super Special 12.21 kmFRA Sébastien Ogier1:37.581.60 km/h
Super Special 22.21 kmFRA Sébastien Ogier1:36.982.11 km/h
Ibarilla 129.90 kmFRA Sébastien Loeb18:18.398.01 km/h
Duarte 123.27 kmFRA Sébastien Loeb18:10.276.84 km/hFRA Sébastien Loeb
Derramadero 123.28 kmFRA Sébastien Loeb14:03.799.33 km/h
Coca-Cola Street Stage 21.50 kmFRA Sébastien Loeb1:15.371.71 km/h
Ibarrilla 229.90 kmFRA Sébastien Loeb18:01.699.52 km/h
Duarte 223.27 kmFRA Sébastien Loeb17:44.978.67 km/h
Derramadero 223.28 kmFRA Sébastien Loeb13:50.4100.92 km/h
Super Special 32.21 kmFRA Sébastien Loeb1:39.180.28 km/h
Super Special 42.21 kmFRA Sébastien Ogier1:38.181.10 km/h
Guanajuatito29.13 kmFRA Sébastien Ogier19:47.888.29 km/h
Sauz Seco7.05 kmstage cancelled
Comanjilla17.88 kmNOR Petter Solberg10:16.2104.46 km/h
Super Special 54.42 kmNOR Petter Solberg3:12.782.57 km/h

Standings after the rally

;Drivers' Championship standings

Pos.DriverPoints
1FRA Sébastien Loeb43
2FIN Mikko Hirvonen37
3FIN Jari-Matti Latvala25
4FRA Sebastien Ogier25
5NOR Petter Solberg20
6NOR Henning Solberg16
7ESP Dani Sordo12
8GBR Matthew Wilson6
9ARG Federico Villagra6
10NOR Mads Ostberg4

;Manufacturers' Championship standings

Pos.ManufacturerPoints
1GBR BP Ford WRT67
2FRA Citroen WRT61
3FRA Citroen Junior Team32
4GBR Stobart Ford28
5ARG Munchi's Ford8

References

References

  1. "Rally Mexico Itinerary 2010". [[Rally Mexico]]; [[International Sportsworld Communicators]].
  2. (2010-03-05). "Rally organisers cancel SS20". [[International Sportsworld Communicators]].
  3. (2010-03-08). "Sebastien Loeb of France wins Mexico Rally". [[Gannett Company]], Inc..
  4. Smith, Sam. (22 March 2010). "How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers". Jalopnik.com.
  5. Slocum, Ben. (14 March 2010). "www.worldrallysport.com/content/pirating-wrc-corona-rally-mexico-rally-america".
  6. (2010-03-05). "SS1: Petter storms into an early lead". [[International Sportsworld Communicators]].
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