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 [...]

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Video clips of Jari-Matti Latvala’s dramatic final stage crash on Rally Poland 2009, where he retired from what a safe and comfortable second position for the BP Ford team.
 
Latvala nudged a sand filled oil barrel, forcing his Focus RS WRC off line and colliding straight on into the armco barrier. The Finn tried in vain to get the car to the [...]

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 [...]