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HARRI
ROVANPERA and Risto Pietilainen lead the Rally of Turkey
after the first leg.
The pair
have edged out a 20 second lead over Citroen's Carlos Sainz
and Marc Marti while Ford's Francois Duval and Jean-Marc Fortin
are third.
After
last night's Super Special, the first leg saw a major shake
up of the leaderboard. Early leader Marcus Gronholm dropped
down the order after his Peugeot suffered with power steering
problems. He is still in the event but currently lies in 18th
position, more than ten minutes behind the leader.
Sebastien
Loeb was another casualty of the first leg. He and co-driver
Daniel Elena went the wrong way towards stage four. When they
realised their mistake, they turned around but the car didn't
have enough petrol to complete the stage. Petter Solberg also
retired when his steering arm broke on his Subaru.
In the
JWRC category, Daniel Carlsson leads in his Suzuki Ignis.
Dungannon's Kris Meeke held sixth position for most of the
day despite rolling his Opel Corsa on the final corner of
stage one. Damage was superficial but he retired on the final
stage of the leg when his wheel nuts sheared.
| 1 |
Harri
Rovanpera / Risto Pietiliainen |
Peugeot
206 WRC |
1hr
14mins 50.5secs |
| 2 |
Carlos
Sainz / Marc Marti |
Citroen
Xsara WRC |
1hr
15mins 11.2secs |
| 3 |
Francois
Duval / Jean-Marc Fortin |
Ford
Focus WRC |
1hr
15mins 20.0secs |
| 4 |
Tommi
Makinen / Kaj Lindstrom |
Subaru
Impreza WRC |
1hr
15mins 21.9secs |
| 5 |
Gilles
Panizzi / Herve Panizzi |
Peugeot
206 WRC |
1hr
15mins 28.4secs |
| 6 |
Richard
Burns / Robert Reid |
Peugeot
206 WRC |
1hr
15mins 47.0secs |
| 7 |
Colin
McRae / Derek Ringer |
Citroen
Xsara WRC |
1hr
15mins 53.8secs |
| 8 |
Armins
Schwarz / Manfred Hiemer |
Hyundai
Accent WRC |
1hr
15mins 57.6secs |
| 9 |
Freddy
Loix / Sven Smeets |
Hyundai
Accent WRC |
1hr
16mins 04.1secs |
| 10 |
Toni
Gardemeister / Paavo Lukander |
Skoda
Octavia WRC |
1hr
16mins 11.4secs |
- Kris
Meeke rolled on the final corner of stage one.
- Petter
Solberg lost time with a spin on stage three.
- Marcus
Gronholm lost time with power steering problems on
stage three.
- Juuso
Pykalisto went off the road on stage three.
- Sebastien
Loeb retired on route to stage four.
- Mikko
Hirvonen retired with a broken strut on stage four.
- Petter
Solberg retired with a broken steering arm on stage
four.
- Colin
McRae lost time with a puncture on stage four.
- Juuso
Pykalisto lost time with a spin on stage six.
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