01 February 2009
THANK YOU John Naylor, Event Director, Rally Ireland 2009 would like to thank everyone who contributed to this highly successful event. |
 Hail, rain or shine, it doesn't seem to matter to five times world champion Sebastien Loeb. He may not be able to walk on water but he can certainly drive on it. |
 Sebastien Loeb negotiated the final 1.5km Donegal Town stage without a hitch to take victory on the 2009 Rally Ireland this afternoon |
 Rally leader Sebastien Loeb had a big scare on the event’s penultimate stage - getting out of shape and sliding his Citroen C4 WRC sideways for 60 metres before he could get all four wheels back on the road and regain control. |
 The sun was shining, the road was drying, but there were no major developments through the 13km Lough Gill stage. |
 Rally leader Sebastien Loeb took his eleventh stage win of the event on Arigna - completing the shortened 10.44km stage one-tenth of a second quicker than Mikko Hirvonen who was second fastest. |
 Sebastien Loeb leads Citroen team-mate Dani Sordo by 77 seconds heading into the final three stages of Rally Ireland. After Stage 16 in Arigna, Mikko Hirvonen's BP Ford Abu Dhabi remains third, with Chris Atkinson's Citroen in fourth.
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 Today's stages will take in the splendour of north Leitrim and Roscommon before heading north again for Donegal. It will be a day of contrasts. |
 Sebastien Loeb will lead Citroen colleague Dani Sordo by 69 seconds heading into the final day of Rally Ireland. |
 Sebastien Loeb’s run of eight consecutive stage wins came to an abrupt halt on SS12 when he lost 15 seconds after going off road. |
 Sebastien Loeb has extended his overall lead to more than a minute after the completing Special Stage 10. |
 Sebastien Loeb showed once again this morning why he will be the man to beat in this year's championship. The Frenchman mastered atrocious conditions once again on Saturday’s opening stage to edge even further ahead of the chasing pack. |
 A combination of heavy rain, high winds and flooding left Rally Ireland 2009 organisers with no alternative but to cancel tonight's two stages for safety reasons. |
 The Citroen cars of world champion Sebastien Loeb and his team-mate Dani Sordo have dominated Friday’s first six stages of Rally Ireland 2009. |
 World Champion Sebastien Loeb has sped into the lead in Rally Ireland 2009 after five of the first six stages of today's racing have been completed. |
 Estonian Urmo Aava is the surprise leader of Rally Ireland 2009 after the first three stages of the event, which started this morning in atrocious conditions but World Champion Sebastien Loeb is closing fast.
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 Max Mosley, the top man in world motorsport, has warned teams they must cut their cloth if they want to survive in the current global economic downturn. |
 Full line-ups announced for Ceremonial and Day 1 starts |
 Mikko Hirvonen tested fastest in this morning's shakedown stage, followed closely by world champion Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo. |
 Anyone unlucky enough not to be able to make it to Rally Ireland can follow all the action live on www.wrc.com. |