Loeb Still Leads - Rally Monte-Carlo, Day 2 | WRC - 2013

Sebastien Loeb - Citroen DS3 WRC

Sebastien Ogier - VW Polo R WRC

Sebastien Loeb continues to dominate on the second day of Rally Monte-Carlo, with a comfortable lead of 1m34.8s. It was more of a controlled aggression by the driver/codrivers to tackle the tricky and mostly frozen twisty narrow mountain roads of Monaco.

Today first stage, SS5 was won by VW driver Sebastien Ogier in his Polo R WRC, while the Russian Evgeny Novikov claimed SS6 in his works Ford Fiesta RS WRC. Juha Hanninen went fastest and won his debut WRC stage win in another Qatar M-Sport WRT's, Ford Fiesta RS WRC.

Dani Sordo did not have any stage win, but rather a consistent drive to ensure he finished third overall by the end of day, i.e., SS10.

  Pos    Time      | Diff.Prev   | Diff.Leader |  Driver (comp. no)     | Car                     

1. 3:16:29.1  |  +00:00.0   |  +00:00.0     |  S. LOEB (1)               | Citroen DS3 WRC
2. 3:18:09.9  |  +01.34.8   |  +01:34.8     |  S. OGIER (8)             | VW Polo R WRC
3. 3:19:07.1  |  +01:03.2   |  +02:38.0     |  D. SORDO (10)         | Citroen DS3 WRC
4. 3:19:22.3  |  +00:15.2   |  +02:53.2     |  E. NOVIKOV  (5)       | Ford Fiesta RS WRC
5. 3:19:51.8  |  +00:29.5   |  +03:22.7     |  M. HIRVONEN (2)     | Citroen DS3 WRC
6. 3:20:12.3  |  +00:20.5   |  +03:43.2     |  J. LATVALA (7)          | VW Polo R WRC
7. 3:20:40.4  |  +00:28.1   |  +04:11.3     |  J. HANNINEN (6)       | Ford Fiesta RS WRC
8. 3:22:14.5  |  +01:34.1   |  +05:45.4     |  B. BOUFFIER (22)    | Citroen DS3 WRC
9. 3:22:18.1  |  +00:03.6   |  +05:49.0     |  M. OSTBERG (4)      | Ford Fiesta RS WRC
10. 3:30:44.7  |  +08:26.6   |  +14:15.6     |  M. PROKOP (21)      | Ford Fiesta RS WRC

 The best part of the rally & the media/tv house was to prepare and broadcast video highlights of the first 3 stage of the day, even before the second half action begun. Here it is.