Rally Catalunya Costa Daurada, from 1 to 4 October, decisive the duel between Loeb and Hirvonen

Salou. Rally Catalunya Costa Daurada. Rally of Spain 2009. Mikko Hirvonen BP Ford driver won the Rally of Australia and global leader rallies with 78 points and Sébastien Loeb, the Citroen team, second in the Rally of Australia and second in the classification of the rally world championship with 73 points will be played much of their options in the Costa Dorada and more specifically Rally in Salou where Catalonia - Costa Dorada, Spain Rally 2009 will play a large part of the global options. The Rally Catalunya - Costa Daurada, Spain 2009 Rally to be run from 1 October with epicenter in Salou and PortAventura. For its part, the Cantabrian Dani Sordo (Citroen), third in the World Cup with 50 points fund will be used to achieve the best possible result in the Rally of Spain, penultimate round of World Championship Rallis. In Australia, the World Rally Championship leader Mikko Hirvonen said the result after the test, which was Citroën penalized, 'has a great effect on the provisional because now we arrive to Spain five points ahead of Loeb. Meanwhile Sébastien Loeb, 2nd in Australia and 2nd in the world said after the Rally of Australia 'now is not having a disadvantage point of Mikko Hirvonen, they are five. That complicate our work to win a sixth title, but we present at the Rally of Spain with the same desire to win '. Moreover, the official list of drivers entered in 45 RACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada, Spain 2009 Rally, the penultimate test Rallis World Championship, has been closed with a total of 80 participants from 28 nationalities, 20 of them Spanish drivers. The records a participant Inscripcción that in the last edition, which shows the high acceptance the test still having lived in one previous race single drop in the number of participants as a result of international crisis, what level do not seem to affect sports Rally Catalunya-Costa Daurada. Moreover, in the Rally Costa Dorada Catalonia could decide the World Trade marks Citroën now leads with 133 points, followed by Ford with 120. In any case, after final results of Rally Australia, Rally Catalunya Costa Daurada becomes decisive for the World Championship. The five teams in the world will face a total of 10 official WRC: WRC Citroën Total (Sébastien Loeb, Dani Sordo), BP Ford Abu Dhabi WRT (Mikko Hirvonen, Jari-Matti Latvala), Stobart VK M-Sport Ford RT (Matthew Wilson, Henning Solberg); Citroën Junior Team (Evgeny Novikov Conrad Rautenbach) and Munchi's Ford WRT (Federico Villagra, Paul Bird). Four other semi WRC give continuity to this list Home: Petter Solberg (Citroen), Sebastien Ogier (Citroen) Khalid Al-Qassimi (Ford) and Andreas Mikkelsen (Citroen), which added two veteran private units Dany Snobeck (Peugeot), champion of France of the specialty, and Coffrey Graham (Subaru). Importantly, Petter Solberg premiere at the RACC Rally Catalunya Costa Daurada Spain 2009 Citroen C4 unit, which replaces the Xsara Iused so far. One of the national Late additions is Dani Solà, who eventually participate in the Rally RACC Catalunya Costa Golden with a Honda Civic-Type R is similar to that used in this same race two editions ago. No less than 22 vehicles N4 category, known as Production, have completed their registration even though the Spanish race is not scoring for P-WRC. Among those registered, names like the Norwegian World Cup Eyvind Brynildsen and the German Hermann Gassner, both with Mitsubishi, the Spanish Albert Orriols (Mitsubishi) and Egoi Eder Valdes (Subaru), Albert the Andorran Llovera (Fiat) and six of the Production championship participants CMR Rally Racing Motorsport, which sponsors the RACC and RFEdA. The breakdown of the 80 enrolled, 28 of which belong to priority lists of the FIA, is distributed in 16 WRC, 9 J - WRC, 8 vehicles R3 and R2, 27 Group N4 (5 of them from Pirelli Star Driver), 8 of category A6 and 12 units of categories N3 and N2.

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