From: Mika.Paakko@lut.fi (Mika Paakko)
Subject: WRC: some results of the RAC...
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:48:50 GMT
Distribution: rec
Reply-To: Mika.Paakko@lut.fi
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland


Situation of WRC before the RAC :
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Drivers (13/14 races) :
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1. Carlos Sainz		ESP	Toyota		124
2. Juha Kankkunen	FIN	Lancia		122
3. Didier Auriol	FRA	Lancia		121
4. Massimo Biasion	ITA	Ford		 52
5. Francois Delecour	FRA	Ford		 45
6. Markku Alen		FIN	Toyota		 40
7. Andrea Aghini	ITA	Lancia		 38
8. Alessandro Fiorio	ITA	Lancia		 32

Only Sainz, Kankkunen and Auriol have chances to become world champions.
If any of these three wins, will the championship be his, too..

Teams (9/10 races) :
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1. Lancia	140
2. Toyota	108
3. Ford		 84
4. Subaru	 43
5. Mitsubishi	 38


Driver can include points from nine races to his total points. Points 
are given in order 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 (ie. the winner gets 20 
points, second 15, third 12 etc. and the 10th will get one point). At
the moment Sainz and Kankkunen have points from 8 races and Auriol
from 7 races. There is 14 races total in this year. Driver can take 
part in 10 races.

Here are the points that Sainz, Kankkunen and Auriol have gotten
this year:

Sainz: 		15-12-20-10-20-15-12-20		= 124 
Kankkunen:	12-20-15-15-15-15-15-15		= 122
Auriol:		20-20-20-20-20-20-1		= 121


Some previous winners of the RAC:
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1973	Timo Makinen		FIN
1974	Timo Makinen		FIN
1975	Timo Makinen		FIN
1976	Roger Clark		GBR
1977	Bjorn Waldegard		SWE
1978	Hannu Mikkola		FIN
1979	Hannu Mikkola		FIN
1980	Henri Toivonen		FIN
1981	Hannu Mikkola		FIN
1982	Hannu Mikkola		FIN
1983	Stig Blomqvist		SWE
1984	Ari Vatanen		FIN
1985	Henri Toivonen		FIN
1986	Timo Salonen		FIN
1987	Juha Kankkunen		FIN
1988	Markku Alen		FIN
1989	Pentti Airikkala	FIN
1990	Carlos Sainz		ESP
1991	Juha Kankkunen		FIN


Mats Jonsson (SWE) is not taking part in the RAC, Carlos Menem Jr. (ARG?) 
has not yet recovered the injuries that he got in Katalonia, so he is not
either driving.


Then to the race itself. Here are the results for the first day (Sunday):


SS 1
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1. Sainz	3.18		Vatanen: "The only problem is hole in my
2. McRae	3.24			  shoe...water comes in..."
3. Alen		3.25
   Vatanen	3.25		Auriol:	 Window of co-driver's side
5. Kankkunen	3.27			 gotten broken
   Blomqvist	3.27


SS 2
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1. Sainz	3.15 
2. McRae	3.18
   Alen		3.18
4. Makinen	3.19
   Vatanen	3.19
6. Auriol	3.21
7. kankkunen	3.22


SS 3
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1. Wilson	3.40
2. Biasion	3.41
3. Kankkunen	3.43		Kankkunen hit his car to a pillar or
4. Makinen	3.45		something
5. Eriksson	3.46
   Blomqvist	3.46


SS 4
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1. Sainz	4.24 		Makinen damaged his car's rear end and 
2. Biasion	4.28		left side. Admitted that it was his own
3. Blomqvist	4.29		fault. Sees his luck getting better in
4. Wilson	4.30		the future...
   Eriksson	4.30		Alen has problems with his gearbox, only
6. Alen		4.31		4th gear works.


SS 5
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1. McRae	4.24
2. Biasion	4.25
3. Sainz	4.26
   Blomqvist	4.26
5. Kankkunen	4.27
   Wilson	4.27


SS 6
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1. Alen		3.44
2. Sainz	3.45
3. Biasion	3.46
4. Wilson	3.47
5. Blomqvist	3.49
6. Kankkunen	3.50


SS 7
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1. Biasion	3.44
   Alen		3.44
3. Sainz	3.45
   McRae	3.45
   Auriol	3.45
   Blomqvist	3.45
   Wilson	3.45


SS 8
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1. Kankkunen	6.23
2. McRae	6.25
3. Sainz	6.30
   Biasion	6.30
   Vatanen	6.30
6. Makinen	6.31


SS 9
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1. Biasion	3.31
2. Alen		3.32
3. Kankkunen	3.33
   Sainz	3.33
5. McRae	3.34
6. Blomqvist	3.36



Here are is a table with some of placements:

Driver		SS1   SS2  SS3	SS4	SS5	SS6	SS7	SS8	SS9
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Sainz		1     1    7	1	3	2	3	3	3
McRae		2     2    11	7	1	12	3	2	5
Alen		3     2    13	6	13	1	1	8	2
Vatanen		3     4    7	13	9	13	8	3	9
Kankkunen	5     7    3	10	5	6	9	1	3
Blomqvist	5     10   5	3	3	5	3	11	6
Auriol		7     6    10	8	8	6	3	6	9
Wilson		7     7    1	4	5	4	3	9	11
Eriksson	9     9    5	4	5	10	10	10	7
Makinen		10    4    4	30	27	8	10	6	7
Aghini		11    7    7	19	11	10	14	14	12
Biasion		12    2    2	2	2	3	1	3	1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------


Results after Sunday (9/34 SSs):
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1.  Carlos Sainz	ESP	Toyota		36.43	
2.  Massimo Biasion	ITA	Ford		37.03	
3.  Colin McRae		GBR	Subaru		37.08	
4.  Juha Kankkunen	FIN	Lancia		37.10	
5.  Malcolm Wilson	GBR	???		37.12	
6.  Markku Alen		FIN	Toyota		37.17	
7.  Didier Auriol	FRA	Lancia		37.23	
8.  Stig Blomqvist	SWE	Nissan		37.26	
9.  Kenneth Eriksson	SWE	???		37.33		
10. Ari Vatanen		FIN	Subaru		37.36	
...	
12. Tommi Makinen	FIN	Nissan		38.34	
...
16. Alistair McRae	GBR	???		40.04	(Group N 1st)
17. Jarmo Kytolehto	FIN	Mitsubishi	40.06	(Group N 2nd)


More results tomorrow at sometime...
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