The Ford World Rally Team takes the first two places after the first stage of Philips Rally Argentina 2012. The short 6.04 km stage push Petter Solberg 3.6 seconds faster than Daniel Sordo who is in the second Ford replacing the injury Jarri-Matti Latvala.
The tire choice was decidable for good positions as Petter selected the soft compound tyre while Loeb selected the hard compound tyre.
NasserAl-Attiyah spin during the first stage as moves down to 13th position with 23.3 seconds delay by the leader.

Results After SS 1:
1. P. Solberg 4:54.9
2. D. Sordo +3.6
3. M. Ostberg +4.8
4. O. Tanak +5.2
5. E. Novikov +5.2
6. T. Neuville +5.6
Comments after SS 1:
P. Solberg: “It feels good. Tricky stages to start off with so maybe we were too careful.”
S. Loeb: “It was a really bad tyre choice; it felt very slippery.”