On the last weekend in Argentina was the fourth stage of WRC Championship 2008, which was the fourth consecutive year, there is no equal Sebastien Loeb. The second place team won a pilot Subaru World Rally Team, Chris Atkinson, who fell behind by Seba more than two and a half minutes. Closes the top three winners in the team mate Loeb Citroen Spaniard Dani Sordo. Leading Friday Mikko Hirvonen caught by a big rock and damaged the suspension of his Focus. It did not fail to take advantage of Loeb, who broke into the lead. Advantage Seba on pursuing its pilots Subaru was comfortable enough to fly his C4 WRC, without great risk. On the last day of the race leader of the "double chevron" could even further away from the pursuers. Despite a rather easy victory Loeb complained about improper tires, which do not cope well with the wet track. "My advantage was sufficient to ensure that I could not afford to take risks, fortunately, we did not have to attack with all his might, because in such a rubber, on which we played, it was simply impossible, the mud was very much", - Sebastien Loeb has admitted. Alsatians chasing Petter Solberg once again summed up the technique. In Argentina, a Norwegian, had all chances to become a winner, and the Subaru team for the first time in a long while Argentina hoped to get a double podium. However, luck has once again turned away from Petter - Issues in Electronic Solberg was forced to leave the race just two dopa to the finish. Frustrated by the Norwegian was forced to leave the Rally of Argentina with a zero result, since, according to the regulations WRC, vybyvshaya machine can not restart the rule SuperRally the last day of phase. As a result, the vanishing Petter second place went to his teammate Chris Atkinson, who this season is the third time on the podium. However, after the race, Chris also did not look satisfied. "I'm very disappointed, the team calculated that at the podium will be the two cars, second place - it's very good, but we still something missing" - complained Atkinson. Loeb team mate Dani Sordo Citroen, riding is clearly not at the limit of its possibilities, was on the podium only because of the large number of retirements. Rally of Argentina on his technique was reliable, and as a result, the third place in the race. Fourth place all of a sudden became debutant Rally WRC Conrad Rotenbah. African, piloted poluzavodskoy Citroen Xsara, behind the winner just over 20 minutes. But due to the stability of the pilot and his car managed to achieve such high results. An interesting situation with Mikko Hirvonen, descended on the first day of the rally. According to the regulations, he started on the Super Rally rule, from 23 th place. Thanks to the many gatherings of the second day, he managed to finally take a 5-s (!) Place. "We were very disappointed because of the stone, and we now managed to get into fifth place, I could not dream of even one ochke. But it is very good, Loeb took off not so much the struggle continues ", - said Hirvonen. Sixth place went to Argentine Federico Villagra on the Ford Focus. Pilot Stobard Gigi Galli finished seventh, having descended from a distance race (he was fourth in the absolute) on the second day and restarted at SuperRally Sunday. To the victor Rally Sweden Jari-Matti Latvala race in Argentina has become a real nightmare. On the first day the young Finn turned his Ford Focus WRC, and on Saturday was forced to leave the race due to engine problems. In the end, as Petter Solberg, Latvala was left without points, while Argentina's rally was a disaster for the team BP-Ford, which could earn in their asset only 4 points. As for the factory team Suzuki, for which the current season - the first complete in the World Rally Championship, the Suzuki SX4 WRC hatchbacks are still the most unreliable. Both pilot teams - Per-Gunnar Andersson and Toni Gardemeister - gone due to technical problems. The results of the Rally of Argentina: 1. Sebastien Loeb, Citroen C4 WRC 5:05.48,6 2. Christian Atkinson, Subaru Impreza WRC +2.33,2 3. Dani Sordo, Citroen C4 WRC +04.04,7 4. Conrad Rotenbah, Citroen Xsara +20.03,5 5. Mikko Hirvonen, Ford Focus RS WRC +25.15,3 6. Federico Villagra, Ford Focus RS WRC +27.42,0 7. Gigi Galli, Ford Focus RS WRC +27.51,8 Overall standings after the fourth stage of the pilots: 1. Sebastien Loeb - 30 pts, 2. Mikko Hirvonen - 25 3. Chris Atkinson 22; 4. Jari-Matti Latvala - 16 5. Gigi Galli - 11, 6. Petter Solberg - 9. Team standings: 1. Ford - 44 points 2. Citroen - 41 3. Subaru - 33 4. Stobart - 22, 5. Munchi's - 10, 6. Suzuki - 6.
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