2012 IRC Tour de Corse final results: Sordo takes the win!

Dani Sordo scored the biggest win of his career so far by cruising to victory on his Intercontinental Rally Challenge debut in Corsica.

Sordo spent the first part of the rally in a close fight with Giandomenico Basso and championship leader Andreas Mikkelsen.

But after Basso was eliminated in an incident on Thursday night and Mikkelsen lost nearly three minutes with a Friday morning excursion, Sordo was free to control the pace for the rest of the rally.

Jan Kopecky and Pierre Campana engaged in a battle for second. Kopecky won five of the six Saturday stages, but lost a lot of time to Campana on the last stage, keeping the battle close.

Bryan Bouffier had a quiet run to fourth in the Peugeot, a long way clear of Mikkelsen, who lost further time with a puncture late on Friday so drove steadily through Saturday.


Pos  Driver                Team/Car           Time/Gap
 1.  Dani Sordo            SMG Mini           3h22m01.6s
 2.  Jan Kopecky           Skoda                 + 17.9s
 3.  Pierre Campana        Munaretto Peugeot     + 32.4s
 4.  Bryan Bouffier        Delta Peugeot         + 53.5s
 5.  Andreas Mikkelsen     Skoda UK            + 4m19.0s
 6.  Craig Breen           Sainteloc Peugeot   + 5m28.7s
 7.  Jean-Marc Manzagol    Peugeot             + 6m22.1s
 8.  Sepp Wiegand          Skoda Deutschland   + 6m54.8s
 9.  Herrmann Gassner Jr   Red Bull Skoda      + 7m10.2s
10.  Jean-Mathieu Leandri  Sainteloc Peugeot   + 7m39.9s