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This website is now dedicated to covering the Black Bullets. Current Black Bullets news is now provided on iSportz » with past news archived here for your continued reference.
The Citroën Total World Rally Team crew of Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena won the Acropolis Rally of Greece today, their 41st world rally victory and fifth of the season. Second position was claimed by Petter Solberg/Phil Mills in the debut competitive outing of the all-new Subaru Impreza WRC, while Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen (BP Ford) took the final podium position.
In the FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers, maximum points for Loeb put him back in the lead, just one point ahead of Hirvonen. Chris Atkinson remains third, despite not finishing the event, and Jari-Matti Latvala holds fourth. BP Ford continues to head the Manufacturers' Championship, but Citroën has closed the gap to just two points.
Today's route covered seven stages and 110.74 kilometres and once again proved to be a day of survival. With a reasonably comfortable overnight advantage Loeb was able to control the pace and eventually finished with a 69.5 second lead over Solberg. After problems during the first and second day, Hirvonen was surprised to claim the final podium position, having ultimately climbed from eighth during a difficult day yesterday.
Estonian Urmo Aava claimed a career best, bringing his Citroën C4 home in fourth position ahead of Dani Sordo (Citroën Total) and Matthew Wilson (Stobart Ford). Henning Solberg's (Stobart Ford) hopes of a podium finish fell apart today when he slipped from third to eighth with an electrical problem. Leading retirements of the day included Chris Atkinson (Subaru) and Gigi Galli (Stobart Ford).
The eighth round of the FIA World Rally Championship takes the crews to the Rally of Turkey (12-15 June).
 Acropolis Rally of Greece – Final Results (subject to scrutineering)
1 Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena, Citroën C4 WRC, 3 hr 54 min 54.7sec
2 Petter Solberg/Phil Mills, Subaru Impreza WRC, 3 hr 56 min 04.2sec
3 Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen, Ford Focus RS WRC, 3 hr 56 min 50.8sec
4 Urmo Aava/Kuldar Sikk, Citroën C4 WRC, 3 hr 59 min 14.4sec
5 Dani Sordo/Marc Marti, Citroën C4 WRC, 3 hr 59 min 44.1sec
6 Matthew Wilson/Scott Martin, Ford Focus RS WRC, 4 hr 01 min 06.0sec
7 Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila, Ford Focus RS WRC, 4 hr 01 min 42.2sec
8 Henning Solberg/Cato Menkerud, Ford Focus RS WRC, 4 hr 04 min 08.7sec
FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers (after 7 of 15 rounds)
Sébastien Loeb (F) 50 points
Mikko Hirvonen (FIN) 49 points
Chris Atkinson (AUS) 31 points
Jari-Matti Latvala (FIN) 26 points
Dani Sordo (E) 25 points
Gigi Galli (I) 17 points
Petter Solberg (N) 17 points
Henning Solberg (N) 12 points
Matthew Wilson (GB) 10 points
Federico Villagra (RA) 8 points
Urmo Aava (EE) 6 point
François Duval (B) 5 points
Conrad Rautenbach (ZW) 5 points
Andreas Mikkelsen (N) 4 points
Toni Gardemeister (FIN) 2 points
Jean Marie Cuoq (F) 2 points
Per-Gunnar Andersson (S) 1 point
Juho Hanninen (FIN) 1 point
Sébastien Ogier (F) 1 point
Andreas Aigner (A) 1 point
FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers (after 7 of 15 rounds)
BP-Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team 81 points
Citroën Total World Rally Team 79 points
Subaru World Rally Team 50 points
Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team 37 points
Munchi's Ford World Rally Team 16 points
Suzuki World Rally Team 10 points
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