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Kubica leads with over a minute to Kopecky in Islas Canarias 2013
Posted by ERC - 22/03/13 07:54PM - 0 Comments - European Rally Championship - 1/52/53/54/55/5

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The domination of Robert Kubica is total in Islas Canarias. Kubica wins the next 3 stages very easy with 6 to 8 seconds advantage of each stage.
In SS 4 Moya 2 with a distance of 13.57 km Craig Breen is second at +6.3 seconds while Kopecky is third at +7.1 seconds.
In this heavy rain conditions Robert Kubica says: This stage wasn't so good for us. We thought there would be much more water and we made a wrong tyre choice.
In SS 5 Artenara 2 21.18 km Kubica takes another 8.1 seconds to Breen. In the next dry stage 6 Tejeda 2 Kopecky finished second at +5.7 seconds.
Kubica comment:  It's looking good. This loop was even more tricky, because the roads were getting dry, but we had tyres mainly for the water. But we are getting familiar with the car.
Copecky: It was completely dry again, completely different from the previous two stages.
In the dry SS 7 Aguimes Kopecky close to Kubica at +1.1 difference in a 25.82 km stage. Kopecky for SS 7: We were trying to do our maximum, so we will see. Now it's dry, but one kilometer before the finish we had really huge moment. After flat out section we had to slow down quickly and we were sliding for about 40 meters.
In the last day stage SS 8 Ingenio with a distance of 20.88 km Kubica takes 2.2 seconds to Kopecky who is second in the stage.
Kopecky: Robert did really great job today. Our car is working perfectly, last stages we ran really flatout but he was still faster. But we still want to go fast and keep the concentration.
Breen: Very difficult. We did some changes to the setup, but we had a lot of understeer. But being on the podium after the first day is nice.
Kubica: It was good day. In the last stage we turn with hairpin and touched a house inside, so we had to reverse.

Results after the end of Day 1 (SS 8):
1. R. Kubica (Citroen DS3 S2000) 1:29:32.0
2. J. Kopecky (Skoda Fabia S2000) +1:06.7
3. C. Breen (Peugeot 207 S2000) +1:51.0
4. J. Ancian (Peugeot 207 S2000) +2:43.8
5. L. Monzon (Mini John Cooper Works S2000) +3:36.2
6. A. Aigner (Subaru Impreza R4) +4:50.3

There are 6 stages to run tomorrow in the last rally day.
 



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