Solberg is the first leader of the Rally of Mexico

Norwegian Petter Solberg (Citroen) was fastest in the super of 1.05 kilometers of Mexico opened the rally, the second round of the season, followed by the official French Citroen, two tenths over Sebastien Sebastien Loeb and five on Ogier.

The rally began with a very short span of barely a kilometer long but served to show to those inhabitants of Guanajuato, the heart of the test, which can not be moved after the stretches, especially for television, since that developed through the streets of the city between tunnels and walled streets. Moreover, despite its small size, the section spoke on between curbs and cobbles, with a pilot error could have gone very expensive for the participants.

With these first three temporary posts, Citroen Ford returns to the stroke he suffered in Sweden, where the Festival took a clean sweep of three top prizes. In fourth place was Finland’s Jari-Matti Latvala (Ford) to 1.2 seconds, while the championship leader, Finnish Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) was fifth at 1.6 seconds.
Who had a good start to the race was the Argentine Federico Villagra (Ford), which debuted in this world and was ranked sixth in front of other drivers who have had more days of testing him.

The first local driver was Michel Jourdain (Mitsubishi), sixteenth. American Ken Block (Ford), a pilot too often for its exhibitions but in the world is not getting great results, had electrical problems. He stopped the car in the middle of the exit ramp, the point at which all participants are to show the vehicle to the hobby and spend a few words before heading to the exit of the first tranche. Stayed there and could not challenge the length of one kilometer. Today we played the bulk of the first day of competition, with a total of 378.46 km, of which 138.03 will be timed and divided into nine stages.