Armchair Guide to WalesRallyGB 08: Entry List and Event Itinerary

Posted by Chris Harrold 25 November, 2008

Welcome to the Armchair Guide to Wales Rally GB

Based in Cardiff and with the service park in Swansea within the UK, the event takes place on the 5th to the 7th of December.

Run on a Gravel surface with 19 Stages compared to 17 in 2007 and has a total of 348.99Km. competitive Special Stages with one Super Special Stage around the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on Saturday ending that days competitive stages.

The weather in Wales is milder than the rest of Northern Europe with average temperatures for December is between 4 and 9C, the average monthly rainfall is 120mm - usually over the weekend!

Winning in 2007 was Mikko Hirvonen in a Ford Focus RS WRC, with Marcus Gronholm in 2nd and Sebastien Loeb in 3rd for the Citroen Total World Rally Team.

Wales is GMT +0

Official Website: http://www.walesrallygb.com

World Rally Radio will be accessible 24 hours a day during the event on wrc.com with updates throughout the weekend for people in different time zones and will have live coverage starting each day at the following times:
Friday 0845 am
Saturday 800 am
Sunday 0730 am

As usual the World Rally Radio podcasts will be available from Shakedown on Thursday on wrc.com and on iTunes, with updates at the end of each day.

RALLY TIMETABLE

Thursday 4th December

Shakedown - 08:00-13:30
Cardiff Ceremonial Start - 18:00

Friday 5th December
SS1     Hafren 1 - 09:08
SS2     Sweet Lamb 1 - 09:32
SS3     Myherin 1 - 09:53
Remote Service A - 11:48
SS4     Hafren 2 - 13:16
SS5     Sweet Lamb 2 - 13:40
SS6     Myherin 2 - 14:01
SS7     Walters Arena 1 - 17:06
SS8     Walters Arena 2 - 17:17
Service B & Parc Ferme In (Swansea) - 18:02

Saturday 6th December
SS9     Resolfen 1 - 08:18
SS10     Halfway 1 - 09:47
SS11     Crychan 1 - 10:13
Service D (Swansea) - 12:13
SS12     Resolfen 2 - 13:21
SS13     Halfway 2 - 14:50
SS14     Crychan 2 - 15:16
SS15     Cardiff (Millennium Stadium) - 18:15
Service E & Parc Ferme In (Swansea) - 19:23

Sunday 7th December
SS16     Rheola 1 - 07:55
SS17     Port Talbot 1 - 09:03
Service G (Swansea) - 10:00
SS18     Rheola 2 - 11:10
SS19     Port Talbot 2 - 12:18
Service H (Swansea)     - 13:03
Finish     Cardiff Ceremonial Finish -14:50

Blast from the past: Integrales on the 1992 RAC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5WjKYbVYwQ

ENTRY LIST

1. Sebastien Loeb Citroen Total WRT C4 WRC M
2. Daniel Sordo Citroen Total WRT C4 WRC M
3. Mikko Hirvonen BP Ford Abu Dhabi Focus RS WRC 08 M
4. Jari-Matti Latvala BP Ford Abu Dhabi Focus RS WRC 08 M
5. Petter Solberg Subaru WRT Impreza WRC 2008 M
6. Chris Atkinson Subaru WRT Impreza WRC 2008 M
7. Francois Duval Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 07 MT
8. Matthew Wilson Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 07 MT
11. Toni Gardemeister Suzuki WRT SX4 WRC M
12. Per-Gunnar Andersson Suzuki WRT SX4 WRC M

14. Henning Solberg Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 07 A8
15. Urmo Aava PH Sport-Citroen C4 WRC A8
16. Conrad Rautenbach PH Sport-Citroen C4 WRC A8
17. Sebastien Ogier PH Sport-Citroen C4 WRC A8
18. Mads Ostberg Adapta WRT Subaru WRC A8
19. Khalid Al Qassimi BP Ford Abu Dhabi Focus RS WRC 08 A8
20. Barry Clark Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 07 A8
21. Eamonn Boland Subaru Impreza WRC A8
22. Gareth Jones Subaru Impreza WRC A8
23. Steve Perez Stobart VK Ford Focus A8
24. Dave Weston Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 05 A8
46. Valentino Rossi Ford Focus WRC 07 A8

32. Mirco Baldacci Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
33. Martin Prokop Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
35. Evgeny Novikov Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
36. Eyvind Brynildsen Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
37. Spyros Pavlides Subaru Impreza WRX STi P
38. Darren Gass Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
39. Nasser Al-Attiyah Subaru Impreza WRX STi P
41. Andreas Aigner Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
42. Bernardo Sousa Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
44. Patrick Flodin Subaru Impreza WRX STi P
45. Teemu Arminen Subaru Impreza P
47. Jaromir Tarabus Fiat Grande Punto S2000 P
48. Evgeny Aksakov Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
49. Simone Campedelli Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
50. Armindo Araujo Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
52. Juho Hanninen Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 P
53. Giovanni Manfrinato Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 P
54. Mark Higgins Subaru Impreza WRX STi P
55. Patrik Sandell Peugeot 207 S2000 P
56. Fumio Nutahara Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9 P
57. Martin Rauam Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
58. Naren Kumar Subaru Impreza WRX STi P
59. David Higgins Subaru Impreza WRX STi P
60. Guy Wilks Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX P
146. Jari Ketomaa Subaru Impreza WRX STi P

61. Gwyndaf Evans Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4
63. Dave Weston Jr Subaru Impreza WRX STi N4
64. Ario Laivola Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4
65. Brian O'Mahony Renault Clio S1600 A6
65. Luca Griotti Renault Clio A7
66. Tommi Luostarinen Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4
67. Hermann Gassner Jr Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4
68. Hugh Evans Subaru Impreza WRX STi N4
69. Daniel Ungur Subaru Impreza WRX STi N4
70. Marco Tempestini Subaru Impreza WRX STi N4
71. Oleksii Tamrazov Subaru Impreza WRX STi N4
72. Rob Gill Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4
73. Egon Kaur Subaru Impreza WRX STi N4
74. Tom Walster Ford Fiesta ST N3
75. Peter Stephenson MG ZR S2000 N4
76. Jason Pritchard Citroen C2R2 A6
77. James Smith Subaru Impreza N4
78. Matt Cotton Citroen C2R2 A6
79. Andrew Hockridge Citroen C2R2 A6
80. Steven Holder Subaru Impreza WRX STi N4
81. Emre Yurdakul Ford Fiesta ST N3
82. Frederic Sauvan Mitsubishi Lancer Evo N4
84. Burcu Cetinkaya Ford Fiesta ST N3
85. Nathan O'Connor Citroen C2R2 A6
86. Koray Muratoglu Ford Fiesta ST N3
87. Tony Jardine Ford Fiesta ST150 N3
88. Deividas Jocius Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4
89. Gordon Nichol Suzuki Swift N2
90. Joachim Muller-Wende Ford Fiesta ST N3
91. David Matthews Subaru Impreza N4
92. Marko Jeram Ford Fiesta ST N3
93. Denis Grodetskiy Ford Fiesta ST N3
94. Thomas Cave Ford Fiesta ST N3
95. Neville Jones Subaru Impreza WRX STi N4
96. SD Roy MG ZR 160 N3
97. David Harrison MG ZR 105 N1
98. Darren Jones Skoda Felcia A5