Citroen, with Loeb and Sordo, champion RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada Rally of Spain

Tarragona. Rally Cataluña Costa Dorada. Rally de España 2009 Citroën went for all the RACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada and won the constructors' championship with 151 points and put near of Sébastien Loeb the world championship, in addition to second place for Dani Sordo in the Rally of Spain. In the driver standings, Loeb has been placed at a point of Hirvonen (Ford), who has 84 points. It will be at the Rally of Wales, last of the 2009 WRC championship, will be decided the first place on the podium. Next year, the Rally RACC has been announced from 22 to 24 October 2010 and will again be the penultimate round of the WRC. At the end of the last day of RallyRACC 2009, the final classification was as follows: 1-Sébastien Loeb / Daniel Elena (Citroen C4 WRC) 3h 22'14 "7 2-Dani Sordo / Marc Marti (Citroen C4 WRC), 12 "0 3-Mikko Hirvonen / Jarmo Lehtinen (Ford Focus RS WRC 2009), 54 "1 4-Petter Solberg / Phil Mills (Citroen C4 WRC) at 1'12 "4 5-Sébastien Ogier / Julien Ingrassia (Citroen C4 WRC) at 1'41 "6 6-Jari-Matti Latvala / Miikka Anttila (Ford Focus RS WRC 2009), 2'49 "8 7-Matthew Wilson / Scott Martin (Ford Focus RS WRC 2008), 7'15 "5 8-Federico Villagra / Jorge Perez Companc (Ford Focus RS WRC 2008), 8'28 "1 9-Henning Solberg / Cato Menkerud (Ford Focus RS WRC 2008), 9'07 "6 10-Dany Snobeck / Gilles Mondesir (Peugeot 307 CC WRC) in 10'56 "0 The provisional classification of the World Rally Championship Drivers' has been as follows: 1 - Mikko Hirvonen (Finland) Ford, 84 points 2 - Sébastien Loeb (France / Citroen), 83 points 3 - Dani Sordo (Spain / Citroen), 58 points 4 - Jari-Matti Latvala (Finland) Ford, 39 points 5 - Petter Solberg (Norway / Citroën), 30 points 6 - Henning Solberg (Norway) Ford, 29 points 7 - Matthew Wilson (Britain) Ford, 25 points 8 - Sebastien Ogier (France / Citroen), 24 points 9 - Federico Villagra (Argentina) Ford, 16 points 10 - Conrad Rautenbach (Zimbabwe / Citroën), 8 points Meanwhile, the Manufacturers' standings / teams was as follows: 1 - (Champion) Citroën Total World Rally Team, 151 points 2 - BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team, 130 points 3 - Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team 73 points 4 - Citroën Junior Team, 42 points 5 - Munchi's Ford World Rally Team 23 points The 45 RACC Catalunya-COSTA DAURADA, Rally of Spain was the penultimate round of the WRC and the second of the season on asphalt, which is developed between 1st to 4th October at the incredible mountains of the Costa Dorada, a few kilometers of Salou. The influx of public expectation and has far exceeded expectations recorded last year, both in number of people who have visited the PortAventura service park, as the podiums of the promenade of Salou and timed themselves. This fact, and the fact that hotel occupancy has been almost 90%, confirms the evidence of the Spanish World Rally organized by the RACC as a major spur economic and tourism for the entire area of the Costa Daurada.

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