This weekend, the World Rally Championship circus heads of to Germany for Rallye Deutschland.

This rally is crucial for the championship battle. If the Citroen is the better car on tarmac, Loeb will probably cruise to yet another tarmac victory. If Ford have improved their tarmac pace, Gronholm can take the fight to Loeb.

Watch the rally unfold on Eurosport.

Loeb is now under immense pressure, 14 points behind - can he make up ground?

Enjoy the action!

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Loeb will win easily - I think that he has won nearly every time he's entered (don't know though)

Mr Loeb has taken a very dominant lead, Gronholm can only manage 4th!

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Hey, Francios Duval's just under 4 seconds behind Seb

I know, that old Xsara is suddenly becoming compeitive again.

I think on tarmac Citroen are unbeatable.

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That's not what you said after Finland

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Speed is life

No, I said that the 2007 spec Focus was supposed to be better on tarmac, according to Ford (read last weeks Autosport mag).

But clearly, it isn't!

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DUVAL'S TAKEN THE RALLY LEAD

God he must be crapping himself with the speed he's going at right now!

Bloody hell, he's on fire!

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Results after day 1:

Pos Driver Car Time
1. Duval Citroen 1h 14:10.9
2. Loeb Citroen + 1.3
3. Gronholm Ford + 17.4
4. Hirvonen Ford + 22.7
5. Gardemeister Citroen + 1:04.2
6. Kopecky Skoda + 1:26.6
7. Pons Subaru + 1:37.2
8. Latvala Ford + 1:40.7
9. P Solberg Subaru + 1:50.7
10. Stohl Citroen + 2:10.3

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Pictures of the rally: http://www.sutton-images.com/

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Results after day 2:

Pos Driver Make Time
1. Loeb Citroen 2h48:40.4
2. Gronholm Ford + 37.8
3. Duval Citroen + 50.4
4. Hirvonen Ford + 55.5
5. Kopecky Skoda + 2:48.7
6. Gardemeister Citroen + 2:51.4
7. Solberg Subaru + 3:07.1
8. Pons Subaru + 4:16.4
9. Latvala Ford + 4:53.8
10. Atkinson Subaru + 8:50.9

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As Sav knows (And for anyone who cares, check it out at http://www.myautocar.com/community/blog ... logId=Y0Nz) I was at Panzerplatte this morning.

The real surprise for me has gotta be Kopecky, a 2 year old Fabia, and he's in 5th...

...Just.

My WRC photos are crap, got great ones from last year and some Historic ones to upload.

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Yeah great blog Li'ldude, enjoyed that.

Kopecky is doing a great job, very impressed with him.

It looks like Mr Loeb will win yet again...

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Did anyone doubt it?

And why thank you Sav. I'll get this years photos up soon. For now, these are from last year:

















And, just for Sav, the world of Diesel rallying:

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