Loeb taking nothing for granted

EVEN though Sebastien Loeb (Citroen DS3) leads the Monte Carlo Rally by a considerable margin, the world champion is taking nothing for granted given the vagaries of the weather and road conditions.

Loeb, sixth on Stage 11 and second on Stages 12 and 13, still managed to extend his overall lead to two minutes and 12.4 seconds.

In the on-going battle for second, Petter Solberg and his Irish co-driver Chris Patterson (Fiesta WRC), who began yesterday’s three stages in third, closed to within 6.8 seconds of Dani Sordo (MINI WRC) after they clocked the fastest stage time on S.S. 11. Ford had a lock-out of the top four places, Francois Delecour, Evgeny Novikov and Ott Tanak following Solberg.