Rally Sanremo 2012 12 round of IRC start with cloudy, dry and some places wet surfaces.
The local driver Giandomenico Basso takes the rally leader position after the first stage. One of the pretenders for the podium place Umberto Scandola crashes during the first stage and damage his rear wheel.
In the second stage the win is for Jan Kopecky while Basso remain second but keep the overall position. At the finished of the stage was foggy. Marco Tempestini has s health problem during the stage
In stage 3 Basso extend his rally lead as win the stage and lead in the overall standing with 12.7 seconds to Jan Kopecky. The fog in stage 3 was heavy.
In stage 4 the longest stage of 44 km Basso continue to extend his rally lead to Jan Kopecky to 25.6 seconds in the overall standing.
Juho Hanninen who was too slow in the first 3 stages crash during the stage 4 and retired.
In the longest rally stage Pierre Campana broken his rear differential, as the Hungarian driver Frigyes Turan overheating his engine.
Today in Saturday the second day of the rally Basso continue to extend his rally lead to Jan Kopecky as win stage 5 and 7.
In stage 6 A. Perico win the stage as Basso remain second at 0.7 second.
Overall Standing after SS 7 (7/10):
1. G. Basso 1:38:50.2
2. J. Kopecky +52.6
3. A. Perico +1:28.9
4. S. Albertini +1:55.5
5. P. Andreucci +2:49.7
6. C. Breen +4:58.2