FIA - IRC, 54° Rallye Sanremo - 2012 | Day 1, with mid-Day 2 updates

Since the opening stage, the Italian, Giandomenico Basso has maintained the overall top position till the end of Day 1 in his Ford Fiesta S2000. Celebrated and most watched pilot from Finland, Juho Hanninen however was not so lucky with the earlier stage times, and at SS4 he had a terrible off which happened him to land his car on to a roof top of a small building lying low and close to the stage/road. As he had expressed that the Italians in their homeland rally will be hard to compete, proved mostly right. His team-mate, Czech, Jan Kopecky was fortunate enough to complete the day 1 without much drama & sits in overall 2nd. Another Italian, Alessandro Perico in his Peugeot 207 S2000 car has taken the 3rd place after SS4.

The second day has begun early today, which has a total of three stages run twice, totaling to 118.92 kms. Giandomenico Basso is the leader of the rally since the opening stage, an Italian and knows the stages surely.

Results after SS7.

Pos.	No.		Driver / Co-driver Vehicle	Pos.	SS time Penalty	Total time	Diff.Leader Diff.Prev.
1	2	1	Basso G. / Dotta Mitia  Ford Fiesta S2000	2 1	01:38:50.2	01:38:50.2	00:00:00.0 00:00:00.0
2	5	2	Kopecký Jan / Dresler Pavel  Škoda Fabia S2000	2 2	01:39:42.8	01:39:42.8	00:00:52.6 00:00:52.6
3	9	3	Perico A. / Carrara F.  Peugeot 207 S2000	2 3	01:40:19.1	01:40:19.1	00:01:28.9 00:00:36.3
4	8	4	Albertini S. / Scattolin S.  Peugeot 207 S2000	2 4	01:40:45.7	01:40:45.7	00:01:55.5 00:00:26.6
5	3	6	Andreucci Paolo / Andreussi Anna  Peugeot 207 S2000	2 5	01:41:29.9 00:00:10.0	01:41:39.9	00:02:49.7 00:00:54.2

Results courtesy irc-results.com