Coming off Sébastien Loeb at the home race provides an exciting season end otherwise repetitive: the three contenders for the title was shared by only three points!. .
After Rally France, the account of the crew of Oje-Ingrabassi has already won five stages of the World Cup this year and seven-in the whole career of Rivne two months ago, after the victory of Sebastien Leba on "Rally Finland", ZR. The RU buried an intrigue in the 2011 World Cup. Our logic seemed flawless. After all, Finland is a foreign field for the Frenchman, where his rivals from the Ford team, the Finns Mikko Hirvonen and Yari-Matti Latvala were supposed to win all of them. And since they were not able to stop a seven-time world champion, what would prevent Lebu from winning the eighth title on the more convenient routes for him? Sébastien Leeb exchanged with his rivals Ford not so much on the strikes as if he had missed the finish on his native roads, and Hirvonen and Latvala lost to the Frenchman at the home of Finnish rally. Now we have an exact answer to this question: the oil pump can interfere. The refusal of this site before the third special section "Rally France" (held last weekend) knocked Leba out of the race. It is noteworthy that Citroen's motor vehicles have recently become extremely rare (the same Leb was the last time off the track for this reason more than five years ago)-and a specific failed engine was new, it was installed on a Frenchman's car just before the domestic race. All this gave Olivier Kesnel, the director of the Citroen factory team, to assume that there was a heavy mistake in the collection of the engine. And even though the seven-time world champion could continue racing on the super-rally system and even scored some points in the theory, the team preferred to send the powertrain to the Paris base immediately for a thorough check. After all, the next stage of the World Championship-"Rally Spain"-will be held in just two weeks, and the relapse of the problems with the engine can make the disastrous season, which was formed for Citroen more than successfully. Since recently, the French stage is held in Alsace, from where Sebastien Leb (in the photo)-but this time the countrymen of a multiple champion had to witness the victory of Ojie, who was born in the Alpine South of the country, however, the second crew of Citroen-Sebastien Ojé and navigator Julien Ingrabassi-has won another victory in France. The French struggle for this victory was not with the crews of the Ford team, but with the Spaniard Danee Sordo, flying the rally MINI. The British team is the debutante of the world championship, from which no special surprises await. Yes and Sordo is no longer regarded as a promising driver: he has thoroughly damaged his reputation, a few seasons at the Citroen factory, and all this time remaining pale in Leba's shadow. However, in the second half of the season MINI cars go very fast-at least on asphalt. And all the faster and faster: a month ago, in the German race, Sordo finished third, yielding to the winner of Oozie for almost two minutes-and now up to the last kilometer was claimed to win and lost all the same to Ojie for only six seconds (though, according to Sordo himself, the car in that month has not undergone any changes)! For a while, the Spaniard even led the way-and did not fail to give a little kick to his former employer, saying that "being the first in a race that is considered a domestic for Citroen is very, very nice." After the crash, the pilots of Citroen smashed both cars, while the last car engine burned down near Leba, the pilots of Ford (on the photo-car Hirvonen) are unlikely to seriously expect that the French will not be lucky on this background, including the leader of the team, Mikko Hirvonen. De jure the third place in France made him one of the leaders of the championship (compared to Leb), but de facto Girvonen was far from the championship and even the vice-champion. On the eve of the start of the rally, Fynn gave an encouraging story to journalists that compared to the previous asphalt race in Germany, the suspension of the combat Ford Fiesta has become much tougher, that the car is much closer to its limits and that "it may still happen." There may be something familiar: a couple of sorties off the track-and by the end of the first day and Hirvonen, and his teammate, Yari-Matti Latvala, has been losing to the leaders for more than a minute. As a result, they spend all their energy and mastery not fighting Citroen, but on trying to get out of the ass where they put themselves. It comes to a funny one: the finished fourth Hirvonen eventually gets to the podium, " thanks to Citroen. Petter Solberg, the third world champion of the world, was disqualified by the judge because his Citroen DS3 was easier to weigh. Miko Hirvonen already has experience in fighting Lebom up to the last kilometer: two years ago in the championship they were divided by one point (the French finished first, and the Finn was the second one)! In one way or another, a standoff table on the eve of two decisive races (in Spain at the end of October and in the UK in mid-November) looks promising. Leba and Hirvonen both have a score of 3 points (196), while 25% are in the race for winning the race. The situation is exacerbated by the distribution of roles in the Citroen team, but the relationships within the team are somewhat tense. Leb is considered to be the leader of the team, that after the French race he was confirmed by Chief Olivier Kesnel. But Ojé, whose equal status is prescribed in the contract (according to Okha himself) in the contract, has already "bred" during this season, not wishing to make it easier for the champion of life to make his own good result. That is, a civil war may well be a war of title. We cannot fail to mention Yevgeny Novikov, the only Russian who has been in the WRC category this year. Unfortunately, it is not possible to please the people who are going through for Evgeny. On the second day of the rally the Russian did not fit into the very narrow retardar and went down from the arm of the suspension lever. Returning to the race for "super-rally", Novikov ended up 23 in the overall standings (all the rest of the crew in the WWRs finished the first 12 places).