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Sebastien Ogier set the fastest time on the Shakedown 1.4s faster than his team-mate Loeb.
But a fastest time on shakedown doesnt mean he'll be able to set such a pace when the real test starts tommorow.
After his runs on Shakedown Ogier said.
"The feeling was very good with the car but this result means nothing because it’s only the shakedown - the real rally starts tomorrow,”
Second fastest Loeb felt his DS3 was "a bit nervous" on the shakedown We were driving with the hard tyres only,” said Loeb. “We were happy but the Ford was quite impressive - [Mikko] Hirvonen was faster than me for a while.”
Mikko matched Sebastien's fastest time on his fifth run and he was happy with the car.
Jari-Matti Latvala, in the second works Fiesta, was 0.2s slower than Loeb and Hirvonen in fourth, despite losing time with a handbrake cylinder failure, which happened on his second run.
Petter Solberg was fifth quickest in his DS3 WRC with brother Henning Solberg sixth in his Fiesta.
Briton Kris Meeke was eight fastest behind the wheel of his Mini John Cooper Works WRC, one place ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. Meeke's only problem was when on his third run when he punctured both of his left-hand side tyres taking a cut through a corner.
At the end of his runs he said
“It wakes you up a bit when that happens,” “You have to remember it’s a performance tyre and not completely puncture proof. But the set-up of the car was good and I’m comfortable with the car.”
Team mate Dani Sordo completed the top 10. He said:
“Shakedown was good but there is still more we need to improve, we tried a few things with the springs, it was not bad."
THE TOP TEN TIMES OF RALLYE DEUTSCHLAND 2011 WERE
1. OGIER. 3:36.3
=2. LOEB. 3:37.7
=2. HIRVONEN. 3:37.7
4. LATVALA. 3:37.9
5. P. SOLBERG. 3:38.6
6. H. SOLBERG. 3:38.7
7. OSTBERG. 3:39.0
8. MEEKE. 3.39.1
9. RAIKKONEN. 3:39.3
10. SORDO. 3.40.1
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