Sebastien Loeb leads Cyprus Rally after stage one, followed by Dani Sordo and Mikko Hirvonen. A quite expected top three, in other words. What’s more unexpected is that Henning Solberg collided with a truck on the road section and had to retire from day one. Luckily noone was hurt, but such unnecessary retirements are really irritating. It has happened quite a few times, and Henning’s younger brother knows very well how it feels… 
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Henning out on first road section
Friday, March 13th, 2009Ford’s testing became a mess
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Ford seems to be unlucky with testing before Rally Ireland. This Saturday, Jari-Matti Latvala collided with another car on his way from the Ford test. Latvala was going in a common road car but luckily escaped with some neck and shoulder pain.
On Monday Henning Solberg (Stobart) were scheduled to do his test, but a tragic incident stopped everything. Just when the test were scheduled to start, the team lost contact with one of the marshals that made sure noone got into the closed road. When the team got there they found out that the marshal had tragically had a heart attack. The ambulance arrived soon after, but the 60 years old man’s life couldn’t be saved.
Let’s hope for more luck in the rally than in the tests for Ford.
