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.
 

Kubica starts the rally with stage win and keep the position after the first three stages. The stage number one start with wet road and +22 C temperature. Jan Kopecky is second. Craig Breen delay win 1-minute for the start of SS 1 and receive 10 seconds penalty.
Kopecky comment after SS 1: Interesting. There are only two days in a year when it rains on Canary Islands and it's one of them. We have medium slicks on the front and soft on the rear.
In SS 2 Artenara 1 with a distance of 21.18 km Kubica extend his rally lead with 22.7 seconds, as second is Craig Breen. In the stage is reporting for rain, wet and fog.
Kubica wins the third stage in day 1 also. Kopecky is second in SS 3 with 0.8 seconds delay. Finally the weather is better in SS 3.
Results after SS 3:
1. R. Kubica (Citroen DS3 S2000) 31:20.3
2. J. Kopecky (Skoda Fabia S2000) +38.4
3. C. Breen (Peugeot 207 S2000) +53.6
4. L. Monzon (Mini John Cooper Works S2000) +1:02.9
5. J. Ancian (Peugeot 207 S2000) +1:23.4
6. A. Aigner (Subaru Impreza R4) +1:47.2

There are 5 stages to run to the end of Day 1.
 

Jari Ketomaa wins the first three morning stages as extend the difference with C. Breen to 19.5 seconds overall. The stages are again very fast with ice, snow and gravel surface.
In stage 11 the organizations surprise the drivers with different finished line. It is organizations mistake. Some of the drivers lost time due too the bad organization.
In the first afternoon stage Craig Breen win the stage with 1.2 advantage to Ketomaa, Jan Cerny finished third.
In Stage 14 one before the end Ketomaa take additional 12.4 seconds to Breen that relax him for the last stage in the rally. Breen broke manifold in the stage that easy Ketomaa to win the rally. Ketomaa finished third in the last stage while Cerny is first.
In SS 14 Alexey Lukyanuk has a technical problem and out the race from fourth position overall.
Comments:
Ketomaa:  I'm very happy with this rally and our performance.
Breen: Exactly what we came to do. Even this we were in challenge for victory. Pace has been fantastic.
Cerny: I was really pushing, but made lot of mistakes here. We wanted to win this stage. Morning was good, on ice, afternoon on gravel we lost lot of spikes.
Delecour:  I pushed little bit too much, I touched something. Stages here were great and beautiful. I made some progress with my driving.

Overall Results:
1. J. Ketomaa (Ford Fiesta S2000) 2:08:15.7
2. C. Breen (Peugeot 207 S2000) +31.0
3. F. Delecour (Peugeot 207 S2000) +2:47.5
4. J. Cerny (Skoda Fabia S2000) +3:03.4
5. R. Kisiels (Mini John Cooper Works S2000) +5:46.3
6. V. Svedas (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X) +5:55.7
 

Craig Breen lost the leader position after day 2 of  Rally Liepaja - Ventspils 2013.
Craig Breen wins stage 4 and 5 while in stage 6 he finished third at +11.7. Breen lost the overall position in the very fast SS 6 Neste Oil 1 21.31 km.
Jari Ketomaa is the new leader after SS 6 with 1.0 second advantage. In SS 7 Ketomaa win the stage and add 0.5 seconds to his advantage to Breen.
In SS 8 Neste Oil 2 Breen lost another 5.5 seconds by the stage winner Ketomaa to push the overall leaders distance to 7.0 seconds. In the last day stage SS 9 Ventspils Kalns 1 3.4 km only Ketomaa takes the stage win while Breen remains third with lost of 5.1 seconds. Almost all stages are extreme fast stages with average speed of about 120 km/h.
Results after SS 9 (End of Day 2):
1. J. Ketomaa (Ford Fiesta S2000) 1:09:19.9
2. C. Breen (Peugeot 207 S2000) +12.1
3. A. Lukyanuk (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X) +1:03.4
4. F. Delecour (Peugeot 207 S2000) +1:17.4
5. V. Svedas (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X) +2:22.3
6. J. Cerny (Skoda Fabia S2000) +2:32.0

There are another 6 stages for the last third day of the rally.
 

Craig Breen (IRL) with his Peugeot 207 S2000 win the first stage of Rally Liepaja - Ventspils. The second position is for the Finland driver Jari Ketomaa with Ford Fiesta S2000. The snow rally starts with mix surface of snow, ice and gravel and temperatures around zero. The second stage called Volkswagen 1 with 16.88 km distance again is win by Craig Breen followed by Russian driver Alexey Lukyanuk with Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X.
The domination of Craig Breen continue in stage 3 LDz Cargo 1 18.68 km while Francois Delecour is second.
Comments by SS 3:
Ketomaa: I have to say it's not easy. Too fast in the dark, sometimes it's scary. Road is frozen, that is good.
Breen:  I just can't believe it. Everything is like the dream. I'm happy for this opportunity to be here and lead this rally is superb. Conditions are tough, but I like it.
Lukyanuk: We had few moments, almost went off. Lost some seconds.
Results after SS 3:
1. C. Breen 22:15.4
2. J. Ketomaa +6.4
3. F. Delecour +12.1
4. A. Lukyanuk +32.7
5. V. Svedas +50.8

There are all 12 stages to go by 6 stages for today and Sunday.

In Europe 44  are the FIA - Motor Sport Club Members Countries, but only the Rally Drivers and Co-Drivers from 31 European countries in the 2012  have obtained results needed to become part of the World Rally Ranking - WRR promoted by the IRDA (International Rally Drivers Association). 776 Rally Drivers and 822 Rally Co-drivers from 31 European countries, after the running all international rallies in the FIA calendar 2012, have scored the necessary results to enter the World Rally Ranking. Following the best Rally Drivers and Co-drivers for each European country:  

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Ekaterina Stratieva and Ilka Minor-Petraskoare in first place in the IRDA (International Rally Drivers Association) Women World Rally Ranking. After 12 months (1 January 2012 – 31 December 2012) of rallyes all over the world, as confirmed by the WRR(www.worldrallyranking.com) promoted by the IRDA(www.irdassociation.com), for the Women Rally Drivers final classification, the first place is occupied by the Bulgarian driver Ekaterina Stratieva, in second place the Emma Gilmour – New Zeland, the podium is completed by Burcu Cetinkaya - Turkey. These three drivers are followed by 12 women rally drivers from the 4 continents and 13 countries in the world, after the running all international rallies in the FIA calendar 2012, have scored the necessary results to enter the World Rally Ranking. This is the final standing of the new IRDA ranking for the first 15 positions:

Ilka Minor-Petraskois the number 1 codriver of international rallying, the first place is occupied by the Austrian codriver, in second place Carmen Poenaru - Romania, the podium is completed by Anna Andreussi - Italy. These three women codriversare followed by111 rally codrivers from the 5 continents and 24 countriesin the world, after the running all international rallies in the FIA calendar 2012, have scored the necessary results to enter the World Rally Ranking. This is the final standing of the new IRDA ranking for the first 15 positions:

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