Hirvonen: 'My challenge is to beat Loeb before he retires'
Sebastien Loeb takes his sixth World Rally Title!
Breen collects FSTi crown as Anglade wins in Wales
Hirvonen gets extra GB rally outing
Get up close and personal at Rally GB
Cardiff Bay prepares to be the hub of rally action
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Hirvonen: 'My challenge is to beat Loeb before he retires'
Mikko Hirvonen has vowed to return 'stronger and better' when the 2010 World Rally Championship kicks off next February, and has renewed his determination to break Sebastien Loeb's record of six consecutive WRC drivers' titles.
Hirvonen's dream of a maiden FIA World Rally Championship title ended in disappointment at the weekend when the BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team driver missed the drivers' crown by just one point after finishing second in the Rally of Great Britain.
A freak incident with the bonnet of his Focus RS World Rally Car on the penultimate stage ended his challenge following one of the most exciting title races in recent years. After more than 4040km of flat out driving across the globe, the 2009 title fight came down to Sunday's final 79.84km of competition. Starting the final day 30.2sec behind Loeb in their head-to-head showdown, Hirvonen threw caution to the wind in his attempt to overhaul the Frenchman and claim the title.
The 29-year-old edged closer to Loeb by winning the opening Port Talbot special stage and then gave himself a real chance by slashing more than 11sec from Loeb's advantage in the Rheola test. With just a repeat pass through those two stages remaining, the deficit was down to only 18.2sec. Hirvonen was again quicker than his rival through the early sections of the 17.41km Port Talbot test, before his chances evaporated shortly before the midpoint, when a heavy landing after a jump damaged his car's front end, and led to his bonnet flipping up shortly afterwards.
"We were just a bit unlucky with that, but I don’t know even without that if I could have caught him," said Hirvonen. "Just after the jump the bonnet pin came off and soon after on one really fast downhill straight the bonnet hinges broke - because it was still attached by the other pin the bonnet blocked my view completely. I couldn’t see anything so I had to stop and take it off so I could continue. I'm frustrated to lose by so little, but happy I was able to fight for the title with a six-time world champion until one stage from the end of the season."
Hirvonen acknowledged that Loeb's stunning performance through Special Stages eight and nine on Saturday had been the turning point in the rally and had knocked his confidence.
"After the first two stages on Sunday I thought I could do it, but the time I lost on Saturday morning cost me in the end," he explained. "Maybe in the end I wasn’t having the same rhythm and attack throughout the rally. When I saw the splits on those stages [SS8 and SS9] I just couldn’t believe how much time I was losing and you start to think that maybe there is something wrong with the car.
"I couldn’t believe I was losing so much with my driving. I thought there was something but the boys checked the car and it was fine. It must be that those few stages just weren’t for me, and that’s where I lost the fight," he added.
Reflecting on his year, Hirvonen said he was proud of his fight back from a position of being 20 points behind Loeb after the first five events. "It has been a great season, and an incredible turnaround to my season," he said. "I never thought it would go right to the end and okay, at the start of the season I thought we were experienced enough to fight for it, but it didn’t start well. Sebastien was winning all the rallies and then after Argentina I gave up. But then things went wrong for him and he made small mistakes and had problems so it gave us a chance to come back for the fight. So that was good and for sure it was a really exciting end for the season. But once again he was just a bit faster.
"I scored 11 podiums in 12 rounds, but I needed more wins. My challenge is to beat Loeb before he retires. I've learned a lot this year and I will come back stronger and better next year," he added.

Sebastien Loeb takes his sixth World Rally Title!
Frenchman Sebastien Loeb cruised through the final stage of the Rally of Great Britain today to take victory in his Citroen Total team C4 WRC and wrap up a remarkable sixth World Rally Championship title.
The win, the seventh from the 12-round season for Loeb and his co-driver Daniel Elena, was the 54th of his record-breaking WRC career.
Loeb and Elena climbed onto the roof of their car at the end of the decisive 27km Rheola stage, and punched the air as they celebrated their victory in front of a crowd of fans and journalists.
Loeb clinched his sixth title by the closest of margins; his total of 93 points was just one ahead of his arch rival Mikko Hirvonen of the BP Ford Abu Dhabi Team.
"It's been an incredible season," said a delighted Loeb. "We made a good start then we lost everything and we came here one point behind Mikko. Finally we've done it and I'm really happy but Mikko has been extremely strong. I know it will be tough next year for sure.
"This has been one of my best title wins; the battle was so intense - going almost until the end of the last rally. It was incredible. We have had some highs and some lows this year but we finished with the victory. It’s an incredible feeling!" he added.
Ford Focus RS WRC driver Hirvonen, and his co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen, were next to reach the finish control, and were two of the first to congratulate Loeb and Elena. After his bonnet flew up on the penultimate test, Hirvonen did enough over the final 22.51km to secure second place in Wales, and get closer to Loeb in the Drivers' fight than anybody since Marcus Gronholm in 2006.
"Well, the bonnet pin was the last of our problems but I really lost the rally yesterday when I couldn't find the speed on those two stages, [SS8 and SS9]" said Hirvonen. "Now I need to go back to work and find more speed for next year. It was definitely the best year I've ever had, though. We're really close now to his speed and that feels good. It’s been a great year, but of course a big disappointment at the end."
Loeb's Citroen Total team-mate Dani Sordo finished third, just one second behind Hirvonen, to take the final step on the podium and secure third place in this year's Drivers' Championship standings on a total of 64 points. "This has been a great day and a great championship, I'm really happy," said the Spaniard. "I pushed hard on this rally but unfortunately the times of Mikko and Sebastien were too good. I tried hard to catch Mikko at the end, and I've really enjoyed my fight with Petter too, but of course big congratulations must go to Sebastien."
In fourth place, 21 seconds slower than Sordo, was four time Rally GB winner Petter Solberg. The Norwegian, running under the Citroen Junior Team banner this weekend, said he was delighted to round off his first season as an independent driver locked in a battle for the podium. "It’s been a long journey to get here, but I'm very pleased with this result," he said.
"The car was good - but I should have done a little more testing in the mud. But my improvement through the rally has been good and the whole year, actually, has been fantastic. By team has done a brilliant job and thanks again to Citroen for giving me this possibility. It could have been a better weekend, though, yesterday we were so unlucky, and I tried today to beat Sordo but I'm happy, very happy. Next year we want a proper car and full spec attack. I hope to battle for the championship."
After missing the opening round of the season in Ireland, Solberg ended the year ranked fifth in the series on a total of 35 points.
Five minutes behind the leading group, in fifth place, was Petter's elder brother Henning in the first of the Stobart VK M-Sport Ford team cars. The Norwegian struggled on the opening day with a persistent engine misfire but ended the event with two top-five times. "I'm happy, we are here at the end, and I hope to start another new season next year," he said. Solberg finished sixth in the WRC Drivers' series on a total of 33 points - matching his career best finish in 2007.
Sixth overall was Henning's team-mate Matthew Wilson - the only full-time British driver in the WRC. After losing time on day one with a traction problem, Wilson was disappointed not to have had a fight on his hands on his home round of the series.
"It was a frustrating day on Friday, and very, very difficult to drive when the handling was so tricky," he said. "It's been okay from then on, yesterday especially was okay in the afternoon, but overall it's been a frustrating end to the season; we'd have liked to have been a bit more on the pace. Overall though the year has been quite good. Hopefully we'll get the chance to do this again next year, keep the momentum going and improve some more." Three points in Wales put Wilson seventh in the 2009 Drivers' standings on a total of 28 points - the best ranking of his career to date.
Seventh was Wilson's Ford stable-mate Jari-Matti Latvala. The Finn dropped out of winning contention on the opening day because of a driveshaft failure. He had another difficult day today, crashing off the road after the flying finish of SS12, and ended up nursing his battered Ford Focus RS WRC to the end of the event.
"It's been a very character building rally," said Latvala at the stage end. "After the problem on Friday we struggled with the driving a bit and then there was my mistake today. I'll be happy to get to the finish. It’s been a tough season for me. Now I want to forget rally for a while, think about something else and then refocus on 2010." Helped by his win this year in Sardegna, Latvala ended the season fourth in the Drivers' standings on a total of 41 points.
Eighth, and collecting the final Drivers' Championship point this weekend, was Conrad Rautenbach - the Zimbabwean wrapping up his second season with the Citroen Junior Team placed tenth in the series on a total of 10 points. "It’s been a really difficult rally, but we always knew it would be," he said. "We had a few problems, but I managed to get through without making any silly mistakes. It's good to end our year in the points like this."

Breen collects FSTi crown as Anglade wins in Wales
While Loeb and Hirvonen's nail-biting duel for the 2009 WRC title stole much of the limelight on the rally of Great Britain, the finale of the Fiesta SportTrophy International was almost as tense, with Irish teenager Craig Breen snatching the title from Germany’s Patrick Anglade thanks to a series of calculated stage wins on the last round of the WRC season.
Anglade, 21, and co-driver Peter Loth took victory in the rally along with a class win in their Fiesta ST, while Breen, 19, and co-driver Gareth Roberts could only manage third in their Fiesta R2, behind Turkey’s Emre Yurdakul.
In the early stages of the rally things didn't go well for Breen. A puncture on SS3 did not lose him significant time, but his challenge almost came to an end on Friday's last test, SS6, when a wire became disconnected from his car's ECU and he hit a rock forcing a tyre change. The incidents cost him almost nine minutes.
But thanks to the FSTi points system, which rewards individual stage wins as well as overall results, Breen was still able to take a strong points haul from the event, even if Anglade's first place was out of reach. Breen's final tally of 12 fastest times from 16 stages enabled him to build a superior annual points total to that of his German rival.
The win marked the first championship title for the Fiesta R2, which made its WRC debut on the previous event in Spain. Breen’s prize is an all-expenses-paid test in the latest specification Ford Focus RS WRC with Ford factory driver Mikko Hirvonen.
"After dropping so much time on Friday, I was sure the championship was lost," said Breen. "Patrick wasn’t going to make it easy for me and the championship battle chopped and changed by a point here and a point there until the mid-point of the rally. It was totally petrifying out there on Sunday and I was really just tip-toeing around the stages trying not to make a mistake. I believe I’m the first driver to win a championship - two championships - in the Fiesta R2. I’m over the moon.”

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Petter the pace-setter at Rally GB Shakedown
Norwegian Petter Solberg got his quest for a fifth victory on the Rally of Great Britain off to a great start today by going fastest at the pre-event Shakedown.
The four-hour test took place on a 4.95km gravel stage in Margam Park, 61km west of the rally's base in Cardiff. In contrast to the largely dry conditions experienced this week for the pre-event reconnaissance, rain poured down throughout the session making the road muddy and extremely slippery in places. The temperature reached a maximum of 14 degrees Celsius.
Solberg, driving for the Citroen Junior Team this week, made four passes through the stage in his C4 WRC, setting his quickest time of 3min 16.4sec on his final attempt. Returning to the Service Park, the 2003 World Rally Champion said he was satisfied with the set-up of his car and was feeling positive about his chances of success this weekend, even though this was his first loose surface rally in the car.
"We stalled on our first run but the car worked very well and we were on the pace even with that," he said. "Then we did some small changes, but on the last run we went back to the set-up we found on our pre-event test and it felt fine. I'm happy to have found this feeling so quickly in this car."
Solberg, who last won this rally in 2005, believes his guest drive with Citroen is his best chance in recent years to add another GB trophy to his collection - come rain or shine. "The weather won't change my plans," he said. "In fact this is good news. I haven't tested in wet conditions with this car, so I was quite pleased to try it in the mud. I'm feeling very positive about my chances this weekend; I know it will be very tough but I will try and fight for a victory. That would be great. I will push hard, maybe not on the first stage, but once I get into a rhythm I’ll be attacking."
BP Ford Abu Dhabi Team driver Jari-Matti Latvala was Solberg's closest rival, in a time just two-tenths slower, while Petter's elder brother Henning was third fastest in another Ford Focus RS WRC.
The two drivers battling for the 2009 Drivers' World Championship title, Mikko Hirvonen and Sebastien Loeb, played things cool at shakedown, setting the seventh and fifth fastest times respectively.
Hirvonen completed just one pass through the stage before declaring himself happy with his Ford Focus. "The car felt good - in fact everything looks really good," he said. "A bit of rain is okay for me, it would help with my position as first on the road tomorrow, but the roads are so dry underneath that I don't expect they will change too much."
Loeb made three passes before parking up his C4. "It was okay but the conditions were very difficult," he said. "There was a lot of rain and mud around and the road was very narrow so it was difficult to find the rhythm - perhaps this is the most difficult stage of the rally!
"It wasn't very representative of the stages of the rally, but after a dry recce the conditions are likely to have changed a bit anyway. We won't know exactly where the tricky places will be and where the grip has changed. We have a good feeling in the car, though. We will keep the same set-up we found on the test and we'll have to see. I think Mikko will be fast straight away tomorrow, so I’m ready to go flat from the start as well."
The opening stage of the rally, the 32.14km Hafren, gets underway on Friday morning at 0923hrs. Stage and split times will be streamed LIVE and FREE here on wrc.com.

Here are the Shakedown times of the leading WRC drivers:
1. P. SOLBERG. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:16.4
2. LATVALA. Ford Focus RS WRC 09. 3:16.6
3. H.SOLBERG. Ford Focus RS WRC 08. 3:18.2
4. OGIER. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:19.0
5. LOEB. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:19.6
6. SORDO. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:19.7
=7. HIRVONEN. Ford Focus RS WRC 09. 3:21.9
=7. OSTBERG. Subaru Impreza WRC 09. 3:21.9
9. AL QASSIMI. Ford Focus RS WRC 08. 3:24.3
10. RAUTENBACH. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:26.1
11. WILSON. Ford Focus RS WRC 08. 3:27.5
12. BURKART. Citroen C4 WRC. 3:41.7

1

 M. HIRVONEN

84

2

 S. LOEB

83

3

 D. SORDO

58

4

 J-M LATVALA

39

5

 P. SOLBERG

30

6

 H. SOLBERG

29

7

 M. WILSON

25

8

 S. OGIER

24

9

 F. VILLAGRA

16

10

 C. RAUTENBACH

8

More WRC stars join British national
It’s not just Mikko Hirvonen who is heading to Wales a week early for some match practice, he’s joined on the Cambrian Rally by five other drivers ready to star on the final round of the World Rally Championship later this month.
Adapta team driver Mads Ostberg, who turned 22 last weekend, will be among the WRC stars favourite to win the rally - Hirvonen is running as safety car and will not set competitive times.
Ostberg arrives fresh from clinching his third successive Norwegian Championship title, the Subaru Impreza WRC driver collecting a third more points in his domestic series than his nearest rival. Joining Ostberg as usual will be Jonas Andersson, former co-driver to Suzuki factory WRC pilot P-G Andersson.
Production driver Spyros Pavlides (Cyprus) and Nasser Al-Attiyah (Qatar) line up in their Subaru Impreza WRXs, while, fresh from his Group N win on the Catalunya Rally, Norway’s Eyvind Brynildsen will get his first taste of the Skoda Fabia S2000 on gravel in North Wales.
Former British national champion Steve Perez will also wheel his Ford Focus RS WRC out for the Llandudno-based event. Perez is a regular on the British events, but for Rally GB, he will join the Stobart Ford World Rally Team. (www.wrc.com)

Rally of Great Britain entries published
A total of 64 crews make up the official entry list of the Rally of Great Britain, the finale of the 2009 World Rally Championship, which starts on 22 October.
The classic gravel rally, based this year from a new home in the Welsh capital Cardiff, will be the decisive round in the 2009 drivers' World Championship battle, as well as the last round of the Production Car World Rally Championship (P-WRC).
Four FIA manufacturer teams will take part in the top line WRC competition, the only absentee being the Munchi's Ford squad, which competed its 2009 programme in Spain.
Championship leader Mikko Hirvonen of the BP Ford Abu Dhabi Team tops the drivers' list. He and fellow Finn Jari-Matti Latvala are Ford's two points nominated drivers, while Khalid Al Qassimi will drive a third Ford Focus RS WRC for the squad.
The manufacturers' championship winning Citroen Total team has entered C4 World Rally Cars for its two drivers Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo. The French firm’s Junior team, however, will run five more - making this the largest Citroen WRC entry so far this year.
Nominated points scorers for the Junior team are four time Rally GB winner Petter Solberg, making his Junior team debut, and Sebastien Ogier. Team regulars Conrad Rautenbach and Evgeny Novikov will also compete in Wales, along with Germany's Aaron Burkart, who won his C4 WRC drive by finishing second in last year’s J-WRC in a Citroen C2.
The Ford powered Stobart VK M-Sport squad will run Focus RS WRCs for regular drivers Matthew Wilson and Henning Solberg, plus a third car for British Rally Championship regular, Steve Perez.
Exactly 12 months after the Subaru World Rally Team made its last WRC appearance, newly crowned Norwegian champion Mads Ostberg returns to the series for the first time since Finland in his Adapta World Rally Team 2008 model Impreza.
The Rally of Great Britain counts as the eighth, and final, round of the 2009 Production Car World Rally Championship (P-WRC) and has attracted 20 entrants.
Topping the list is this year's provisional champion Armindo Araujo, who has an unassailable 11 point lead the series. However his title remains provisional, subject to the outcome of an appeal by the Barwa Rally Team regarding the exclusion of Nasser Al-Attiyah from the results of the Acropolis Rally of Greece.
If the International Court of Appeal overturns the exclusion then it will put Al-Attiyah and Araujo almost level on points again. With Araujo now having scored his maximum six results, Al-Attiyah will need to score only point from the final round in Rally GB to become champion.
Rally Great Britain also marks the end of the 2009 Fiesta Sporting Trophy International, which has come down to a final winner-takes-all scrap between title hopefuls Patrick Anglade from Germany (who leads the series) and Ireland's Craig Breen.
Also on the entry list is Irishman Ken Treacy, who is tackling his second World Championship Rally this year thanks to his share of a multi million Euro lottery win.
Treacy was part of a 16 person syndicate at the Dan Morrisey Concrete Company which won over €18million on the Irish Lottery in 2008. He decided to spend some of his winnings on his rallying hobby and tackled his first WRC event, this year's Rally Ireland, in a Volkswagen Polo - finishing 28th overall. Treacy has upgraded his car to a Citroen C2 R2 for Rally Great Britain. (www.wrc.com)

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Hirvonen gets extra GB rally outing
Finn Mikko Hirvonen will finalise his preparations for the FIA World Rally Championship title decider in Great Britain later this month by driving in the Cambrian Rally (17 October) in north Wales next weekend.
The BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team leader, and co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen, will pilot a Ford Focus RS World Rally Car in a non-competitive safety car role just ahead of the 150-car entry.
Hirvonen's rally appearance will come soon after Ford's own pre-event test, which gets underway on Monday 12 October. Jari-Matti Latvala is scheduled to drive for the opening two days of the test, which will be based in the north of England, while Hirvonen will be at the wheel on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Cambrian Rally is based in the seaside resort of Llandudno and will include 72.30km of speed tests over gravel roads in Clocaenog and Penmachno Forests - once legendary special stages in Britain's world championship encounter themselves.
Hirvonen won this rally in 2002 in a privately-entered Subaru Impreza WRC and it remains popular as a test session for teams warming up for the WRC round. This year's Cambrian entry list also includes Rally GB entrants Mads Ostberg (Subaru Impreza WRC), Eyvind Brynildsen (Skoda Fabia S2000) as well as Subaru Impreza drivers Nasser Al Attiyah and Spyros Pavlides.
"After three days competing on the asphalt roads of Rally de España last weekend, it's important for me to regain a good feel on gravel ahead of Rally of Great Britain," said 29-year-old Hirvonen. "Driving on the Cambrian Rally in a competitive environment will improve my familiarity with the nature of the Welsh forests. It will be the perfect way to ready myself for what should be a thrilling final round of the WRC."
BP Ford Abu Dhabi team director Malcolm Wilson said: "Although Mikko won't actually be entered on the rally, his role as safety car means he will drive at competitive speeds so it's a great and unexpected opportunity for fans to see the Ford team in action. The Cambrian Rally will be the ideal way for Mikko and Jarmo to focus on the week ahead, which will be the most important few days of their rally career. They will take a one-point lead to Rally of Great Britain so we expect the most exciting title fight in recent years."
The Rally of Great Britain, the 12th and final round of the championship, starts in Cardiff on Thursday 22 October. It covers almost 350km of competition in the forests of mid - and south Wales before the finish back in the Welsh capital on Sunday afternoon, when the outcome of the 2009 drivers' championship will be known. (www.wrc.com)

Get up close and personal at Rally GB
Rally fans can get even closer to the action at this year's Rally of Great Britain, (22-25 October) with two new spectator experiences.
These include a new site for shakedown at Margam Country Park and, for the first time since the event has taken place in Wales, spectators can access the remote service in mid-Wales at Builth Wells.
The 2009 pre-event shakedown moves to the vast 1,000 acre Margam Country Park near Port Talbot. Shakedown takes place on Thursday 22nd October and will be the last chance for competitors to make adjustments to fine tune their cars, before heading to Cardiff for the official start of the 65th edition of Rally GB on the 23rd October. Easily accessible from Junction 38 of the M4, shakedown gives spectators a chance to see teams in action before the competition begins on Friday morning.
Margam’s flowing stage uses a mixture of fast, wide roads and narrow tracks winding up and down the valleys to fully test both drivers’ skill and the cars’ capabilities. Viewing will be permitted throughout the park section of the stage at a variety of corners and high speed sections.
Another new element for this year’s rally is the opportunity for spectators to attend the remote service at Builth Wells, on Friday 23rd October. Rally organisers have opened up the remote service area this year to allow spectators of the northern stages to catch up with the drivers and experience the drama that service brings.
Set in the heart of mid-Wales, the remote Service Park will be easily accessible and an exciting addition to the main Service Park in Cardiff Bay. Here fans will be able to get up close to all the action of service, the cars and the drivers. As well as being kept fully entertained by the rally teams who will be battling against the clock to carry out running repairs to their cars, spectators will be able to refuel themselves with the on-site catering.
The first car is due into service at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells at 12:07 on Friday afternoon on the first competitive day of the rally.
If you wish to book tickets for shakedown and the remote service park at Builth Wells take advantage of the best ticket prices by booking in advance. Details of how to purchase tickets together with other important news is available by visiting www.rallygb.org.
Tickets can also be booked by calling the ticket hotline on 0844 847 2251 or in person from Ticketline, 47 Westgate Street, Cardiff, CF10 1TL, Monday 9am – 6pm, Saturday 9am -5.30pm and Sunday 10am – 4:00pm.

Cardiff Bay prepares to be the hub of rally action
It is now less than a month until many of the world's best rally drivers, co-drivers and teams from across the globe descend upon Cardiff Bay as they all gather for this year's Rally of Great Britain, the finale of the FIA World Rally Championship.
From October 22nd – 25th the Service Park will be based at the heart of the Welsh capital, meaning easy access for families and rally fans alike. The real icing on the cake is that entry to the Service Park is free and will also provide a programme of entertainment.
The Service Park will cover 30 acres of the Bay, with specially dedicated sections for teams and drivers. Brand new for this year is the Rally GB Supporters Village, which will be based in Roald Dahl Plass, directly in front of  Wales Millennium Centre.
The Bay, being accessible from central Cardiff on foot, by bus or a three minute train journey, is the perfect location - meaning everyone can enjoy the atmosphere surrounding this world-class event. There will also be a shuttle running between Roald Dahl Plass and the World Rally Championship area.
In addition to the rally action, the Supporters Village will boast a café piazza, big screen showing rally footage and live times, rally merchandise stalls, as well as general entertainment and attractions for rally fans and general spectators. It is also surrounded by Mermaid Quay which holds some of Cardiff’s renowned restaurants and bars, so visitors can make their visit a day or evening-long occasion.
The new Start and Finish location in Roald Dahl Plass will be the focal point every time the rally cars arrive at and leave the Bay. In all, the competing teams will visit the famous ‘Torchwood’ setting six times the course of four days, including twice on Saturday 24th.
The Supporters Village will also host the prestigious start and finish ceremonies – where the winner of the Rally of Great Britain will be crowned. With this year’s FIA World Rally Championship possibly going down to the wire, Rally GB could prove to be the deciding round. Therefore on Sunday 25th, the Bay could be the backdrop to the crowning of the 2009 FIA World Rally Champions. Rally HQ will also be based at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay bringing the world’s media to the area.
The Service Park will be open from 11am – 9pm Thursday 21st – Saturday 24th and from 11am – 3pm Sunday 25th. Entertainment will be provided throughout the event including films, autograph sessions, performances from precision-driver Paul Swift, and the Red Bull Matadors Air Team - something for everyone to enjoy.
Entry to the Service Park is free, but for those wishing to see the stages, tickets are on sale now. For adults wanting to enjoy everything the rally has to offer, the World Rally Pass (WRP) represents the best value for money. At just £90, the same price it’s been for five years, the pass gives access to all stages, car parks and shakedown. This year, the ‘kids for a quid’ offer has been extended even further meaning many kids tickets start at just £1!
To take advantage of the best ticket prices advance booking is essential. Details of how to purchase tickets together with other important news is available by visiting www.rallygb.org

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