Halfway through the 2012 FIA World Rally Championship, Sebastien Loeb leads Citroen team-mate Mikko Hirvonen by 38 points and more importantly, Ford’s Petter Solberg by 55 points.  With six rallies to go, two of them solely on asphalt, it’s hard to imagine anyone consistently getting the better of Loeb.  Unless Loeb gets into trouble of some sort, Hirvonen is not going to be allowed to challenge him for the title – and that’s no criticism of Citroen, just an acknowledgement of the most effective way to win a championship.  It wasn’t so much that Loeb was untouchably quick in New Zealand: far from it as Hirvonen was able to keep pace with him and had Petter Solberg not been on hard tyres for Friday’s soft stages, dropping a minute a half, he would have been right with Loeb at the finish too.  Here are some video re-caps of how the weekend went down.
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by Klaus Rasch
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