Mikko Hirvonen claimed his ninth WRC win in the ORLEN Platinum 66th Rally Poland on Sunday. A second successive WRC triumph also moved the Finnish driver a single point clear of seventh-placed Sébastien Loeb in the FIA Drivers’ Championship. Driving a Ford Focus RS and co-driven by Jarmo Lehtinen, Hirvonen began the day with a [...]

Top 3 drivers at the end of the rally.
1st – Mikko Hirvonen & Jarmo Lehtinen, BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team
2nd – Dani Sord & Marc Marti, Citroën Total World Rally Team
3rd – Henning Solberg & Cato Menkerud, Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team
Malcolm Wilson OBE, Team Principal, BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally [...]

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BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team driver Mikko Hirvonen has won the 66 ORLEN Platinum Rally Poland 2009 and now moves into the lead of the World Rally Championship for the first time this season.
The big drama on the Mikolajki Super Special (the final stage) though was Jari-Matti Latvala who crashed his Ford Focus [...]