2006 Rally México

Infobox Rally
name = 2006 Rally México
native_name = 20º Corona Rally México
round = 3
championship = 2006 World Rally Championship
previous_round = 2006 Swedish Rally
next_round = 2006 Rally Catalunya
country =MEX


caption = A view of Guanajuato, home to two stages of Rally Mexico
rallybase = Leon
startdate = March 3
enddate = 5 2006
stages = 17
stagekm = 359.54
overallkm = 1002.47
surface = Gravel
driver1 = flagicon|FRA Sébastien Loeb
team1 = flagicon|BEL Kronos Total Citroën WRT
teamsstart = 39
teamsfinish = 34

The 20º Corona Rally México, the third round of the 2006 World Rally Championship season took place between March 3rd and 5th, 2006.

Event

The event saw the first win of the season for Sébastien Loeb. After aspirited battle with Petter Solberg over the first two days - that saw bothdrivers suffering problems(Loeb losing power steering on stage 13 and Solberg'sSubaru colliding with a dog) [cite web | title = Loeb leads from Solberg in Mexico | work = bbc.co.uk | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/world_rally/4775516.stm | date = 2006-03-05 | accessdate = 2008-05-10 ] - Loeb eventually pulled clearto give the Belgian Kronos team their first WRCvictory. Marcus Grönholm had a less successful event, suffering a crashon day one [cite web | title = Solberg sets early pace in Mexico | work = bbc.co.uk | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/world_rally/4773374.stm | date = 2006-03-04 | accessdate = 2008-05-10 ] and having to rejoin the rally on day two under Superally rules.Despite a twenty minute penalty, he managed to pick up a point for eighthplace. Manfred Stohl collected the final podium place with his Peugeot 307 [cite web | title = Loeb holds on for Mexico success | work = bbc.co.uk | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/world_rally/4776990.stm | date = 2006-03-05 | accessdate = 2008-05-10 ] .

Results

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Manufacturers' championship

References

External Links

* [http://www.rallybase.nl/index.php?type=result&rallyid=423 Results] on [http://www.rallybase.nl/ RallyBase.nl]
* [http://www.ewrc-results.com/final.php?event=3&stage= Results] at [http://www.ewrc-results.com/ eWRC.com]
* [http://www.wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=405&season=2006&rally_id=MEX Results] from the official site: [http://www.wrc.com/ WRC.com]
* [http://www.juwra.com/mexico_2006.html Results] at [http://www.juwra.com/index.html/ Jonkka's World Rally Archive]