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MARCUS
GRONHOLM and Timo Rautiainen have won the 2003 Rally Argentina!
The Peugeot
pair lost almost two minutes on the first leg after clipping
a rock but they managed to fight back to win the event by
26.6 seconds from Carlos Sainz and Marc Marti. Sainz inherited
the event lead after Gronholm's incident on the first day
but a timing error resulted in the Spaniard receiving a one
minute penalty. Despite his best efforts to regain the lead,
it wasn't enough but the runner-up spot takes him to third
position in the Drivers' Championship Standings.
Richard
Burns and Robert Reid finished third in their Peugeot 206
WRC after turbo problems on the final stage but they remain
Championship leaders with a total of 32 points, two points
ahead of team-mates Marcus Gronholm and Timo Rautiainen.
| 1 |
Marcus
Gronholm / Timo Rautiainen |
Peugeot
206 WRC |
4hrs
14mins 48.8secs |
| 2 |
Carlos
Sainz / Marc Marti |
Citroen
Xsara WRC |
4hrs
15mins 11.6secs |
| 3 |
Richard
Burns / Robert Reid |
Peugeot
206 WRC |
4hrs
15mins 57.8secs |
| 4 |
Harri
Rovanpera / Risto Pietilainen |
Peugeot
206 WRC |
4hrs
17mins 04.3secs |
| 5 |
Petter
Solberg / Phil Mills |
Subaru
Impreza WRC |
4hrs
17mins 56.4secs |
| 6 |
Didier
Auriol / Denis Giraudet |
Skoda
Octavia WRC |
4hrs
22mins 43.5secs |
| 7 |
Toni
Gardemeister / Paavo Lukander |
Skoda
Octavia WRC |
4hrs
23mins 18.7secs |
| 8 |
Francois
Duval / Jean-Marc Fortin |
Ford
Focus WRC |
4hrs
26mins 00.3secs |
| 9 |
Toshihiro
Arai / Tony Sircombe |
Subaru
Impreza |
4hrs
34mins 46.7secs |
| 10 |
Gabriel
Raies / Jorge Perez |
Toyota
Corolla WRC |
4hrs
34mins 48.4secs |
- Freddy
Loix went off the road on stage 18 and retired.
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- Carlos
Sainz lost ten minutes after going off the road on
stage ten.
- Tommi
Makinen incurred road penalties when a suspension
change took too long to complete. To make matters
worse, he was then stopped for speeding at a radar
trap.
- Francois
Duval spun on stage eight.
- Markko
Martin lost time with hydraulic problems on stage
ten.
- Marcus
Gronholm rolled on stage 13 but was lucky to lose
just 35 seconds.
- Harri
Rovanpera retired after going off the road on stage
14.
- Markko
Martin retired on stage thirteen when his Focus refused
to restart after he spun and stalled on the stage.
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- Colin
McRae lost time with a spin on stage one.
- Armin
Schwarz rolled out of the event on stage one.
- Colin
McRae retired at the end of stage six with damage
to his Citroen.
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