Ogier-Loeb, spectacular duel facing the RallyRACC

Salou. Costa Dorada. With a spectacular game at the helm that has left two pilots Citroën, Sébastien Loeb and Sébastien Ogier separated by 3.8 seconds, has completed the first day of the Rally RACC Catalunya-Costa Dorada, Rally de España, with the novelty of making mixed terraasfalt two sections, Terra Alta and Garrigues, and a third, La Ribera d'Ebre, entirely on land. The difficulty for the 47 cars that start every day focused on the speed of 126 km divided into six special il'expectació caused by the presence of land along the route. With a very mild climate, although there were some areas dense fog early in the morning, the day has seen a sharp conflict in the leading positions. In Terra Alta, the longest stretch of this first stage with almost 36 km, Sébastien Loeb (Citroen) was the fastest one achieve victory again in the third special, Les Garrigues (12.07 km). Meanwhile, Petter Solberg (Citroen) dominated in the second, La Ribera d'Ebre, although the provisional classification after the first loop was evident that Loeb was not reserving anything appearing in front of Sebastien Ogier (Citroen) and Jari-Matti Latvala (Ford). The second shift in three tranches, Ogier initiating an attack that led to marked the first installment in scratx and although Solberg was the best in the second and Loeb in third position between the first two of the classification was fixed in 3.8 seconds. Dani Sordo (Citroen) could not find comfortable at the start of the race and exception the second special in which he finished second the other records have been very discreet, down to the sixth ranking and more 50 seconds behind the leader. The canary Yeray mottos (Renault) is the first J-WRC, Junior riders in the world. The race, organized by the RACC and located in Salou and PortAventura, being followed by a large influx of fans, which can be increased with the arrival of the weekend. Tomorrow, the second day of the race will be 126.6 Speed km, divided into six more timed sections, all on asphalt. Classification RallyRACC Catalunya-Costa Dorada, Spain Rally, after day 1 1-Sébastien Loeb-Daniel Elena (Citroen C4 WRC) 1h.25 '26 "8 2-Sébastien Ogier-Julien Ingrassia (Citroen C4 WRC), 3 "8 Jari-Matti Latvala-3-Miikka Anttila (Ford Focus RS WRC 2009), 19 "9 4-Petter Solberg, Chris Patterson (Citroen C4 WRC) to 22 "4 5-Mikko Hirvonen-Jarmo Lehtinen (Ford Focus RS WRC 2009), 42 "4 6-Dani Sordo-Diego Vallejo (Citroen C4 WRC), 54 "7  

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