Prime Yalta Rally 2012

Pos.	No.	Driver / Co-driver Vehicle	Group	SS time	Aver. speed sec/km	Diff.Leader Diff.Prev.
1	11	Consani Robert / Klinger Nicolas Renault Megane RS	3	00:20:08.5	86.24 0.00	00:00:00.0 00:00:00.0
2	19	Chmykh Mykola / Vilchynskyy O. Subaru Impreza STI	3	00:20:46.8	83.59 1.32	00:00:38.3 00:00:38.3
3	12	Tempestini S. / Baggio Lucio Subaru Impreza STI	3	00:27:38.5	62.84 15.54	00:07:30.0 00:06:51.7

Pos.	No.		Driver / Co-driver Vehicle	Pos.	SS time Penalty	Total time	Diff.Leader Diff.Prev.
1	11	1	Consani Robert / Klinger Nicolas Renault Megane RS	3 1	01:47:37.4	01:47:37.4	00:00:00.0 00:00:00.0
2	19	3	Chmykh Mykola / Vilchynskyy O. Subaru Impreza STI	3 2	01:49:24.8	01:49:24.8	00:01:47.4 00:01:47.4
3	12	6	Tempestini S. / Baggio Lucio Subaru Impreza STI	3 3	02:09:51.3	02:09:51.3	00:22:13.9 00:20:26.5

INFORMATION ABOUT SS 8
(25 - Ostapchenko Ivan / Tsyro Dmytro): retired in SS 8
(17 - Pechenyk Volodymyr / Roshchenko Andriy): retired in SS 8
(15 - Kochmar Yuriy / Koval Sergiy): triple puncture in SS 8
(14 - Gorban Valeriy / Nikolaev Andrii): technical problem - driveshaft in SS 8
(9 - Tempestini Marco / Pulpea Dorin): problems with gearbox
(11 - Consani Robert / Klinger Nicolas): It feels great to be leading in 2WD and in the IRC Production Cup, especially after using the same front two tyres for both loops. It’s a difficult rally and hard to know whether to take some of the cuts or to try and drive round them: you can either risk a puncture or end up in the trees! Tomorrow is another long day so we will drive at a steady pace and hope we can keep our position.
(1 - Protasov Yuriy / Nesvit Kyrylo): Everything has gone reasonably well for me today and I am very happy to be in this position. We had a puncture on the Plato 1 test and then again on Plato 2 this afternoon but we were able to get back to number one position so it was not too much of a problem. We will not push tomorrow, it will be a long day and my main target is to finish the rally.