75ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo

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The 75ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo (75th Monte-Carlo Rally) , the first round of the 2007 World Rally Championship season took place between January 19th and 21th, 2007.

1 Pre-event
2 Standings
- 2.1 Notes
- 2.2 Penalties
3 Stage results
- 3.1 First to finish

[edit] Pre-event

The rally returned to the Vercors and Ardèche regions of France for the first time since 1997. Due to the popularity of the rally concerns arose about spectator safety, after the shakedown stage was cancelled due to heavy spectator crowding. The rally has some returns and new faces, namely the return of Citroën with the highly developed C4 WRC with drivers Sébastien Loeb and Dani Sordo. BP Ford returned to defend their manufacturers' title in 2006 with the same team of Marcus Grönholm and Mikko Hirvonen. Subaru also returned with the same 2006 team of Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson. In addition to the BP Ford Team, Stobart VK Ford return with previous drivers Matthew Wilson and Jari-Matti Latvala as well as Henning Solberg that joins from OMV Peugeot. Another Ford team has been entered under the team name of Munchi's Ford Rally Team with drivers Luis Perez Companc and fellow Argentine Juan Pablo Rales, they will contest 10 rallies in 2007.

[edit] Standings

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Difference
1	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	3:10:27.4	0.0
2	Dani Sordo	Citroën C4 WRC	3:11:05.6	38.2
3	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	3:11:50.2	1:22.8
4	Chris Atkinson	Subaru Impreza WRC	3:12:55.5	2:28.1
5	Mikko Hirvonen	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	3:12:55.7	2:28.3
6	Petter Solberg	Subaru Impreza WRC	3:13:39.4	3:12.0
7	Toni Gardemeister	Mitsubishi Lancer WR05	3:14:05.5	3:38.1
8	Jan Kopecký	Skoda Fabia WRC	3:15:06.8	4:39.4
9	Jean-Marie Cuoq	Peugeot 307 WRC	3:16:27.1	5:59.7
10	Manfred Stohl	Citroën Xsara WRC	3:17:04.7	6:37.3
11	Gareth MacHale	Ford Focus WRC	3:21:38.0	11:10.6
12	Matthew Wilson	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	3:23:38.4	13:11.0
13	Frédéric Romeyer	Peugeot 206 WRC	3:24:19.3	13:51.9
14	Henning Solberg	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	3:25:11.9	14:44.5
15	Eammon Boland	Ford Focus WRC	3:31:39.1	21:11.7
16	Philippe Roux	Peugeot 307 WRC	3:32:47.8	22:20.4
17	Olivier Burri	Subaru Impreza	3:32:56.6	22:29.2
18	Martin Prokop	Citroën C2	3:35:08.1	24:40.7
19	Luca Betti	Renault Clio	3:38:01.8	27:34.4
20	Richard Frau	Mitsubishi Evo IX	3:38:32.5	28:05.1

25	Xavier Pons	Mitsubishi Lancer WR05	3:45:39.9	35:12.5

	Jari-Matti Latvala	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	Retired at Time Control 14a, mechanical problem.

[edit] Notes

Report shows only first 20 in overall standings, plus all FIA priority cars.

[edit] Penalties

Frédéric Romeyer, Martin Prokop, given ten second penalties for 1 minute late arival at Time Control points 12 and 14C respectively.

[edit] Stage results

[edit] First to finish

Stage			First to finish
Stage			Driver	Co-Driver
Day 1	SS1	St Jean En Royans	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena
Day 1	SS2	La Cime Du Mas	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena
Day 2	SS3	St Pierreville 1	Dani Sordo	Marc Marti
	SS4	Burzet 1	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena
	SS5	St Martial 1	Dani Sordo	Marc Marti
	SS6	St Pierreville 2	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena
	SS7	Burzet 2	Dani Sordo	Marc Marti
	SS8	St Martial 2	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena
Day 3	SS9	Labatie D'Andaure 1	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena
	SS10	St Bonnet 1	Chris Atkinson	Glenn MacNeal
	SS11	Lamastre 1	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen
	SS12	Labatie D'Andaure 2	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen
	SS13	St Bonnet 2	Chris Atkinson	Glenn MacNeal
	SS14	Lamastre 2	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen
	SS15	Monaco	Chris Atkinson	Glenn MacNeal