End of Day 2. Sebastian Loeb holds a 24.6 second lead over Sebastian Ogier with Jari-Matti Latvala in third. Petter Solberg sits in fourth, 43.2 seconds behind Loeb. Dani Sordo holds fifth, 5.6 seconds off fourth. Matthew Wilson, Federico Villagra, Kimi Raikkonen, Henning Solberg & Xevi Pons finish off the top 10.
The Jordanian gravel stages bit hard on SS8, when Ford No.1 Mikko Hirvonen crashed out of todays competition in todays opener, Suwayma 1. Hirvonen hit a bank 4.5 kms into the stage, bouncing across the road & into another bank, breaking the Focus's suspension & stopping the Finn's charge for today. The Finn will re-enter the rally for tomorrows final eight stages.
Loeb pulled level with Latvala on SS11, then went 5.4 seconds faster than Latvala on SS12, won SS13 & pulled 9.3 seconds ahead of the Finn.
Sebastian Ogier pulled ahead of Latvala on the days final stage, stating that the move was intentional but Ogier's tactical move will benefit Latvala with a cleaner racing line tomorrow.
Xevi Pons holds a lead of over 9 minutes in the S-WRC. Michal Kosciuszko is second with yesterdays leader Bernardo Sousa in third. At the time of writing, it was unclear what happened Michal Kosciuszko on SS12, the stage he lost over 9 minutes on.
Leader in the P-WRC is Patrick Flodin, holding a 23 second lead over defending P-WRC Champion Armindo Araujo, albiet breaking a rear anti-roll bar link on the days penultimate stage, Kafrin 2. Martin Semerad retired on SS11, when the rear differential developed a problem, which forced the Czech to retire form the event.
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