2010 Jordan Rally

2010 Jordan Rally
*28th Jordan Rally*
2010 Jordan Rally; 28th Jordan Rally
Round 3 of the 2010 World Rally Championship
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Host country	Jordan
Rally base	Dead Sea Centre, Jordan
Dates run	April 1 – 3 2010
Stages	21 (339.48 km; 210.94 miles)
Stage surface	Gravel
Overall distance	911.78 km (566.55 miles)
Statistics
Crews	33 at start, 27 at finish
Overall results
Overall winner	Sébastien Loeb; Citroën Total World Rally Team

The 2010 Jordan Rally was the third round of the 2010 World Rally Championship season. The rally took place over April 1–3, and was based beside the Dead Sea, 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Jordan's capital, Amman. The rally was also the third round of both the Production Car World Rally Championship, and the Super 2000 World Rally Championship. Sébastien Loeb won the 56th WRC rally of his career, taking the lead midway through the second leg, and holding on to win by 35.8 seconds ahead of Jari-Matti Latvala, who had been the pacesetter on the first day. Petter Solberg finished third, taking his second successive podium after his first in Mexico.

Much of the talk on the rally was down to controversial team orders in relation to road position. Citroën Junior Team's Sébastien Ogier left the final morning's service five minutes late, getting a time penalty that dropped him behind Ford's Latvala. Ford used Mikko Hirvonen – who had retired on the first day, and was returning under SupeRally conditions – as their hand, to leave service early so he jumped up the running order.^[2] Citroën countered by making Ogier check into the time control at SS14 eight minutes early, to road sweep ahead of Loeb.^[2] Citroën later stated that Ogier's late departure was due to an electrical problem.^[3] Ogier's teammate Kimi Räikkönen finished eighth and became the second driver after Carlos Reutemann to score drivers' championship points in both Formula One and the World Rally Championship.^[4]

In the SWRC, Xavier Pons won his second consecutive event, and again managed to break into the top ten placings in the overall standings. His margin of victory over Eyvind Brynildsen was nearly twelve minutes, as he moved into a ten-point lead in the SWRC standings. Sweden victor Per-Gunnar Andersson finished third ahead of Nasser Al-Attiyah, Patrik Sandell and Jari Ketomaa.

In the PWRC, Patrik Flodin took his second victory in two starts, beating Armindo Araújo by close to two minutes. Araújo's second place was enough to maintain his lead in the championship standings, but Flodin now trails by just eight points. Nicholai Georgiou finished third.

Results edit

Event standings edit

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference	Points
Overall
1.	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3:51:35.9	0.0	25
2.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Ford Focus RS WRC 09	3:52:11.7	35.8	18
3.	Petter Solberg	Phil Mills	Citroën C4 WRC	3:52:47.7	1:11.8	15
4.	Dani Sordo	Marc Martí	Citroën C4 WRC	3:53:25.2	1:49.3	12
5.	Matthew Wilson	Scott Martin	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	4:00:00.2	8:24.3	10
6.	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën C4 WRC	4:02:02.3	10:26.4	8
7.	Federico Villagra	Jorge Pérez Companc	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	4:03:03.9	11:28.0	6
8.	Kimi Räikkönen	Kaj Lindstrom	Citroën C4 WRC	4:04:06.9	12:31.0	4
9.	Henning Solberg	Ilka Minor	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	4:05:44.5	14:08.6	2
10.	Xavier Pons	Alex Haro	Ford Fiesta S2000	4:10:09.8	18:33.9	1
SWRC
1. (10.)	Xavier Pons	Alex Haro	Ford Fiesta S2000	4:10:09.8	0.0	25
2. (14.)	Eyvind Brynildsen	Cato Menkerud	Škoda Fabia S2000	4:22:01.8	11:52.0	18
3. (16.)	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Jonas Andersson	Škoda Fabia S2000	4:29:07.2	18:57.4	15
4. (18.)	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Giovanni Bernacchini	Škoda Fabia S2000	4:31:26.0	21:16.2	12
5. (23.)	Patrik Sandell	Emil Axelsson	Škoda Fabia S2000	4:51:50.0	41:40.2	10
6. (25.)	Jari Ketomaa	Mika Stenberg	Ford Fiesta S2000	5:04:29.3	54:19.5	8
PWRC
1. (11.)	Patrik Flodin	Göran Bergsten	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	4:10:42.9	0.0	25
2. (12.)	Armindo Araújo	Miguel Ramalho	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	4:12:39.5	1:56.6	18
3. (15.)	Nicholai Georgiou	Joseph Matar	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	4:29:01.3	18:18.4	15
4. (17.)	Spyros Pavlides	Chris Patterson	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	4:29:54.8	19:11.9	12
5. (19.)	Amjad Farrah	Nancy Al-Majali	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	4:33:00.4	22:17.5	10
6. (21.)	Wang Rui	Pan Hongyu	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	4:38:14.8	27:31.9	8
7. (24.)	Paulo Nobre	Edu Paula	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	4:55:12.0	44:29.1	6

Special stages edit

Day	Stage	Time	Name	Length	Winner	Time	Avg. spd.	Rally leader
1 (1 Apr)	SS1	11:28	Rumman Forest	15.34 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	12:12.1	75.43 km/h	Jari-Matti Latvala
	SS2	12:26	Wadi Shueib 1	8.65 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	7:05.2	73.24 km/h	Jari-Matti Latvala
	SS3	12:54	Mahes 1	20.44 km	Dani Sordo	14:44.1	83.23 km/h	Dani Sordo
	SS4	13:37	Mount Nebo 1	11.09 km	Petter Solberg	8:16.3	80.44 km/h	Jari-Matti Latvala
	SS5	15:50	Wadi Shueib 2	8.65 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	6:44.1	77.06 km/h
	SS6	16:13	Mahes 2	20.44 km	Petter Solberg	14:17.7	85.79 km/h
	SS7	16:56	Mount Nebo 2	11.09 km	Sébastien Loeb	8:00.6	83.07 km/h
2 (2 Apr)	SS8	08:11	Suwayma 1	10.49 km	Sébastien Loeb	5:13.7	120.38 km/h
	SS9	08:51	Kafrain 1	17.20 km	Petter Solberg	11:54.0	86.72 km/h
	SS10	09:49	Jordan River 1	41.45 km	Sébastien Loeb	27:38.4	89.98 km/h
	SS11	12:50	Suwayma 2	10.49 km	Sébastien Loeb	5:13.7	120.38 km/h	Sébastien Loeb Jari-Matti Latvala
	SS12	13:30	Kafrain 2	17.20 km	Petter Solberg	11:43.3	88.04 km/h	Sébastien Loeb
	SS13	14:28	Jordan River 2	41.45 km	Sébastien Loeb	27:10.0	91.55 km/h
3 (3 Apr)	SS14	08:20	Yakrut 1	14.16 km	Sébastien Loeb	8:30.4	99.87 km/h
	SS15	08:50	Bahath 1	12.53 km	Petter Solberg	9:30.3	79.10 km/h
	SS16	09:33	Shuna 1	15.23 km	Sébastien Loeb	11:55.5	76.63 km/h
	SS17	10:16	Baptism Site 1	10.83 km	Sébastien Loeb	5:21.1	121.42 km/h
	SS18	12:11	Yakrut 2	14.16 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	8:21.1	101.73 km/h
	SS19	12:41	Bahath 2	12.53 km	Sébastien Loeb	9:17.0	80.98 km/h
	SS20	13:24	Shuna 2	15.23 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	12:00.6	76.09 km/h
	SS21	14:07	Baptism Site 2	10.83 km	Sébastien Ogier	5:25.8	119.67 km/h

Standings after the rally edit

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos.	Driver	Points
1	Sébastien Loeb	68
2	Jari-Matti Latvala	43
3	Mikko Hirvonen	37
4	Petter Solberg	35
5	Sebastien Ogier	33
6	Dani Sordo	24
7	Henning Solberg	18
8	Matthew Wilson	16
9	Federico Villagra	12
10	Xavier Pons	5

Manufacturers' Championship standings

Pos.	Manufacturer	Points
1	Citroen WRT	101
2	BP Ford WRT	87
3	Citroen Junior Team	48
4	Stobart Ford	44
5	Munchi's Ford	16

References edit

^ "Jordan Rally Schedule 2010" (PDF). World Rally Championship. Jordan Rally; International Sportsworld Communicators. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
^ ^a ^b Beer, Matt (3 April 2010). "Loeb still leads as teams use tactics". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
^ Evans, David (3 April 2010). "Ford attacks Citroen over tactics". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
^ "Räikkönen teki suomalaista moottoriurheiluhistoriaa!". MTV3 (in Finnish). Bonnier Group. 3 April 2010. Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2010.

External links edit

Results at eWRC.com

[1] "Jordan Rally Schedule 2010" (PDF). World Rally Championship. Jordan Rally; International Sportsworld Communicators. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2010.

[controversy-2] Beer, Matt (3 April 2010). "Loeb still leads as teams use tactics". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2010.

[3] Evans, David (3 April 2010). "Ford attacks Citroen over tactics". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2010.

[4] "Räikkönen teki suomalaista moottoriurheiluhistoriaa!". MTV3 (in Finnish). Bonnier Group. 3 April 2010. Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2010.

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