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Leg 1 Unofficial Results

1. M Grönholm/T Rautiainen Ford Focus RS 1hr 09min 30.8sec
2. C Atkinson/G MacNeall Subaru Impreza 1hr 10min 54.5sec
3. T Gardemeister/J Honkanen Peugeot 307 1hr 10min 57.9sec
4. G Panizzi/H Panizzi Skoda Fabia 1hr 11min 05.4sec
5. M Stohl/I Minor Peugeot 307 1hr 11min 09.9sec
6. F Duval/P Pivato Skoda Fabia 1hr 11min 36.6sec
7. S Sarrazin/S Prévot Subaru Impreza 1hr 12min 17.6sec
8. S Loeb/D Elena Citroen Xsara 1hr 13min 14.4sec
9. D Sordo/M Marti Citroen Xsara 1hr 13min 28.2sec
10. M Hirvonen/J Lehtinen Ford Focus RS 1hr 13min 29.6sec

Chris Atkinson/Glen MacNeall: "Obviously I’m very happy; it’s been a
good day for Glenn and me. We’ve stuck exactly to our pre-event plan,
haven’t taken any risks and have ended up in second place overall. In
fact, I think that’s the only thing that we weren’t really planning for.
The stages today have been very interesting and a tough challenge. We
haven’t been going slowly but we haven’t been taking risks either. We’ve
just driven sensibly, on safe tyres and the results have been
incidental. We learned a lot on the asphalt rallies last year and we put
it to good use. Our plan for tomorrow is to keep it consistent, just
carry on doing what we’ve done today and see where it gets us. I’m
looking forward to it."

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09 Evo X

Leg 2 Unofficial Results

1. M Grönholm/T Rautiainen Ford Focus RS 2hr 36min 10.2sec
2. T Gardemeister/J Honkanen Peugeot 307 2hr 38min 16.1sec
3. M Stohl/I Minor Peugeot 307 2hr 38min 19.0sec
4. S Loeb/D Elena Citroen Xsara 2hr 38min 51.8sec
5. S Sarrazin/S Prévot Subaru Impreza 2hr 39min 13.6sec
6. C Atkinson/G MacNeall Subaru Impreza 2hr 40min 53.0sec
7. D Sordo/M Marti Citroen Xsara 2hr 41min 11.8sec
8. G Panizzi/H Panizzi Skoda Fabia 2hr 41min 30.2sec
9. M Hirvonen/J Lehtinen Ford Focus RS 2hr 41min 37.5sec
10. X Pons/C Del Barrio Citroen Xsara 2hr 42min 53.1sec

Chris Atkinson/Glen MacNeall: “It’s been quite a challenge for us today.
We knew we would drop a few places anyway but we’ve lost a bit more time
than we wanted. We had a few slow spins in the morning and then this
afternoon we were massively too cautious on the Turini stage. I’ve never
done that stage before and everyone was warning us about how tricky it
was. In the end I took it too carefully and threw away some time.
Tomorrow I think we can go at a much faster pace than we did today,
that’s for sure, but we still want to finish the rally, that’s the main
thing.”

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09 Evo X

Leg 3, courtesy of www.rallye-newsletter.com of course...

Leg 3 Unofficial Results

1. M Grönholm/T Rautiainen FIN Ford Focus RS 4hr 11min
43.9sec
2. S Loeb/D Elena F Citroen Xsara
4hr 12min 45.7sec
3. T Gardemeister/J Honkanen FIN Peugeot 307
4hr 13min 07.0sec
4. M Stohl/I Minor A Peugeot 307
4hr 13min 26.2sec
5. S Sarrazin/S Prévot F Subaru Impreza 4hr
15min 04.1sec
6. C Atkinson/G MacNeall AUS Subaru Impreza 4hr
16min 46.3sec
7. M Hirvonen/J Lehtinen FIN Ford Focus RS 4hr
18min 03.4sec
8. D Sordo/M Marti E Citroen Xsara
4hr 18min 59.1sec
9. X Pons/C Del Barrio E Citroen Xsara 4hr
19min 26.8sec
10 G Panizzi/H Panizzi F Skoda Fabia
4hr 21min 13.7sec


Chris Atkinson/Glen MacNeall: "We're ecstatic really. When you look at it,
coming to our first Monte Carlo, to finish in the top six and to have such a
good result all weekend is fantastic. Glenn and I drove exactly according to
our pre event plan, we learned a lot and we'll head to Sweden in a very
positive frame of mind. Sweden was our first event with the team last year
and we showed some good speed. The conditions suit me a bit better than the
ones here and I'm looking forward to going back."

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