Sebastien Loeb leads Sebastien Ogier by 7.4 seconds at the end of day one of Rallye Deutschland, with the Citroens over a minute clear of the rest of the field.
A troubled afternoon for Ford saw Mikko Hirvonen sustain minor suspension damage when he clipped a wall on SS4, although he was able to effect repairs and continue. He remains third, 1m18.4s off the lead.
His team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala was badly hampered by an electrical glitch that left him struggling through the stages on three cylinders, dropping him six minutes off the pace.
At the front, Ogier closed to within 0.9s of Loeb by winning the afternoon’s first stage, but the champion then stretched his lead again with quickest times on the next two tests.
Behind the top three, the Minis of Dani Sordo and Kris Meeke hold fourth and fifth places, with Sordo only 22s behind Hirvonen’s Ford, and both ahead of Petter Solberg (Solberg Citroen).
Henning Solberg is seventh in the leading Stobart Ford, fending Kimi Raikkonen’s Ice 1 Citroen and Dennis Kuipers, having his strongest run yet in the FERM Ford.
Overall
| Pos | No | Driver | Time | Diff Prev |
Diff 1st |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1 | S. LOEB | M | 1:18:21.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 2. | 2 | S. OGIER | M | 1:18:28.8 | +7.4 | +7.4 |
| 3. | 3 | M. HIRVONEN | M | 1:19:39.8 | +1:11.0 | +1:18.4 |
| 4. | 37 | D. SORDO | 1:20:01.7 | +21.9 | +1:40.3 | |
| 5. | 52 | K. MEEKE | 1:20:19.0 | +17.3 | +1:57.6 | |
| 6. | 11 | P. SOLBERG | M | 1:20:21.2 | +2.2 | +1:59.8 |
| 7. | 15 | H. SOLBERG | 1:21:43.5 | +1:22.3 | +3:22.1 | |
| 8. | 8 | K. RÄIKKÖNEN | M | 1:21:46.9 | +3.4 | +3:25.5 |
| 9. | 9 | D. KUIPERS | M | 1:21:53.1 | +6.2 | +3:31.7 |
| 10. | 17 | A. ARAÚJO | 1:22:43.8 | +50.7 | +4:22.4 | |
| 11. | 14 | P. VAN MERKSTEIJN | M | 1:22:51.8 | +8.0 | +4:30.4 |
| 12. | 5 | M. WILSON | M | 1:23:02.8 | +11.0 | +4:41.4 |
| 13. | 22 | O. TÄNAK | S | 1:23:29.1 | +26.3 | +5:07.7 |
| 14. | 20 | H. WEIJS JR. | 1:24:06.0 | +36.9 | +5:44.6 | |
| 15. | 4 | J. LATVALA | M | 1:24:32.1 | +26.1 | +6:10.7 |
| 16. | 25 | J. HÄNNINEN | S | 1:24:37.6 | +5.5 | +6:16.2 |
| 17. | 43 | K. BLOCK | M | 1:24:43.4 | +5.8 | +6:22.0 |
| 18. | 27 | H. GASSNER JR | S | 1:24:57.0 | +13.6 | +6:35.6 |
| 19. | 26 | K. KRUUDA | S | 1:25:02.9 | +5.9 | +6:41.5 |
| 20. | 23 | N. AL-ATTIYAH | S | 1:25:12.2 | +9.3 | +6:50.8 |
| 21. | 50 | F. HERBOLD | S | 1:25:19.7 | +7.5 | +6:58.3 |
| 22. | 55 | P. CAMPANA | 1:25:40.2 | +20.5 | +7:18.8 | |
| 23. | 19 | C. RIEDEMANN | 1:25:40.6 | +0.4 | +7:19.2 | |
| 24. | 53 | B. TEN BRINKE | 1:26:00.3 | +19.7 | +7:38.9 | |
| 25. | 54 | E. VAN LOON | 1:28:28.8 | +2:28.5 | +10:07.4 | |
| 26. | 12 | D. OLIVEIRA | M | 1:28:36.0 | +7.2 | +10:14.6 |
| 27. | 6 | M. ØSTBERG | M | 1:28:51.7 | +15.7 | +10:30.3 |
| 28. | 29 | F. TURÁN | S | 1:28:56.7 | +5.0 | +10:35.3 |
| 29. | 56 | H. GASSNER | 1:28:59.3 | +2.6 | +10:37.9 | |
| 30. | 57 | S. WALLENWEIN | 1:29:31.3 | +32.0 | +11:09.9 | |
| 31. | 110 | Y. LEMES | A | 1:29:46.1 | +14.8 | +11:24.7 |
| 32. | 109 | C. BREEN | A | 1:30:18.5 | +32.4 | +11:57.1 |
| 33. | 103 | A. CRUGNOLA | A | 1:31:00.1 | +41.6 | +12:38.7 |
| 34. | 102 | J. SUAREZ | A | 1:31:02.0 | +1.9 | +12:40.6 |
| 35. | 63 | J. PRITCHARD | 1:31:04.9 | +2.9 | +12:43.5 | |
| 36. | 108 | E. KAUR | A | 1:31:05.8 | +0.9 | +12:44.4 |
| 37. | 118 | T. VAN DER MAREL | A | 1:31:17.9 | +12.1 | +12:56.5 |
| 38. | 60 | M. BURRI | 1:31:23.8 | +5.9 | +13:02.4 | |
| 39. | 104 | J. CERNY | A | 1:31:28.4 | +4.6 | +13:07.0 |
| 40. | 61 | J. DE WINKEL | 1:31:39.8 | +11.4 | +13:18.4 | |
| 41. | 120 | S. WIEGAND | A | 1:31:53.6 | +13.8 | +13:32.2 |
| 42. | 114 | F. AHLIN | A | 1:32:01.0 | +7.4 | +13:39.6 |
| 43. | 113 | M. BALDONI | A | 1:32:06.8 | +5.8 | +13:45.4 |
| 44. | 68 | E. BOLAND | 1:32:37.7 | +30.9 | +14:16.3 | |
| 45. | 101 | A. FISHER | A | 1:33:12.3 | +34.6 | +14:50.9 |
| 46. | 82 | E. MOREE | 1:33:43.0 | +30.7 | +15:21.6 | |
| 47. | 59 | C. MOHE | 1:34:11.2 | +28.2 | +15:49.8 | |
| 48. | 105 | M. NIINEMAE | A | 1:34:29.9 | +18.7 | +16:08.5 |
| 49. | 112 | S. KARYAKIN | A | 1:35:08.1 | +38.2 | +16:46.7 |
| 50. | 64 | H. VOSSEN | 1:35:14.6 | +6.5 | +16:53.2 | |
| 51. | 73 | P. OTTOSSON | 1:36:19.3 | +1:04.7 | +17:57.9 | |
| 52. | 81 | J. MELICHÁREK | 1:36:49.2 | +29.9 | +18:27.8 | |
| 53. | 74 | W. IHLE | 1:37:20.6 | +31.4 | +18:59.2 | |
| 54. | 106 | B. REEVES | A | 1:37:54.6 | +34.0 | +19:33.2 |
| 55. | 87 | H. SAGEL | 1:39:23.4 | +1:28.8 | +21:02.0 | |
| 56. | 71 | T. KURKA | 1:39:33.2 | +9.8 | +21:11.8 | |
| 57. | 90 | M. GRIEBEL | 1:40:10.1 | +36.9 | +21:48.7 | |
| 58. | 86 | J. WECKER | 1:40:27.2 | +17.1 | +22:05.8 | |
| 59. | 65 | R. PRITZL | 1:41:13.2 | +46.0 | +22:51.8 | |
| 60. | 70 | J. DEPPING | 1:41:30.9 | +17.7 | +23:09.5 | |
| 61. | 18 | R. KUIPERS | 1:41:42.7 | +11.8 | +23:21.3 | |
| 62. | 62 | T. ERDI JUN. | 1:42:08.8 | +26.1 | +23:47.4 | |
| 63. | 24 | B. SOUSA | S | 1:42:22.1 | +13.3 | +24:00.7 |
| 64. | 88 | T. WEIGERT | 1:42:52.9 | +30.8 | +24:31.5 | |
| 65. | 79 | J. TOMÁ?TIK | 1:43:49.2 | +56.3 | +25:27.8 | |
| 66. | 51 | P. FLODIN | 1:46:50.4 | +3:01.2 | +28:29.0 | |
| 67. | 21 | M. PROKOP | S | 1:46:57.1 | +6.7 | +28:35.7 |
| 68. | 77 | J. HOHLHEIMER | 1:52:03.6 | +5:06.5 | +33:42.2 | |
| 69. | 92 | C. BÄCHLE | 1:52:50.2 | +46.6 | +34:28.8 | |
| 70. | 80 | M. VAN IERSEL | 1:55:05.4 | +2:15.2 | +36:44.0 | |
| 71. | 66 | D. RIEBENSAHM | 1:56:52.7 | +1:47.3 | +38:31.3 | |
| 72. | 83 | M. LI?KA | 1:56:52.7 | 0.0 | +38:31.3 | |
| 73. | 75 | M. MUSCHIOL | 2:06:02.0 | +9:09.3 | +47:40.6 | |
| 74. | 89 | C. HICKETHIER | 2:11:02.0 | +5:00.0 | +52:40.6 |