Andreas Mikkelsen win Sibiu Rally Romania 2012
Posted by IRC - 21/07/12 04:17PM - 0 Comments - IRC - 




Andreas Mikkelsen win Sibiu Rally Romania 2012.
The actions:
In Stage 8 G. Szabo is with a broken wheel, as Szabo delay with more than 3-minutes in the stage, while Delecour has problems with shock absorber cause him 41.8 seconds delay. This is the first stage with stage win for driver different than Mikkelsen who delay with 10.7 seconds by Sepp Wiegand.
Stage 9: Win for Mikkelsen. The fastest Romania driver V. Porcisteanu has a puncture as he delay with more than 8-minutes. He comments: After three kilometers from the start we got a puncture, it damaged steering. Then the car fell down from the jack, later Vitaliy passed us and we didn't see anything in the dust. We now get to the service and then hopefully push again.
Stage was interrupted after st.no.34 because of fire in the forest, other crews will obtain notional time.
Stage 10: Win for Patrik Flodin. Wiegand is with a puncture in the stage, as he stopped 1 km from the finish with broken rear right damper, repairing the car.
Stage 11: Win for Mikkelsen. In this stage Patrik Flodin has problems with driveshaft and powersteering but he finished second at +14 second by the leader.
Stage 12: Win for Mikkelsen.
Mikkelsen: It's been long weekend. With so big gap it's just about getting the car to the finish. We had lot of second places, it's nice to be again on the top spot. It's important result for the whole team.
Delecour: It was nice to be in the battle. We would like to do more IRC rally.
Flodin: We are very very happy, we are very proud of the second place. All the guys in the team did great job. Thanks to them and to Petter! Now we showed what we can do. We had bad luck on the beginning, but we are looking forward to next rallies.
Porcisteanu: I'm very happy that we are here. very hard rally, we had lot of problems today. Third place in Romanian championship and in the Production cup. We wanted to be first, but it's rally.
Final Results:
1. A. Mikkelsen 2:15:28.0
2. P. Flodin +5:33.8
3. F. Decelour +11:56.9
4. V. Puskar +13:57.2
5. E. Keleti +14:45.6
6. R. Consani +17:26.7