Tue October 9, 2001

 Send In Your, Yes Your, WRC Photos

Sun October 7, 2001

 Technical Talk - Tyres Italian Style

 Loix grabs a point but Makinen crashes

 Thiry's last minute charge

 Outstanding Sainz grabs fourth

 Panizzi Wins A Close Finish With Loeb

 Petter Pipped By Colin On Last One

 Technical Talk - Asphalt Wheels & Brakes

 Battle remains for Sainz

 A Mixed Day Down the Order

 Leg 2: More Drama and French Dominance

NEWS JUST IN

 Panizzi WIns! @ 01:09 PM - Sebastian Loeb had 11.8s to make up on Panizzi before the last stage but it seems both took it reasonably carefully. Final results: 1. Panizzi, 2. Loeb +11.4, 3. Auriol +54.9, 4. Sainz +1:11.9, 5. Travaglia +1:32.1, 6. Delecour +2:28.6, 7. Gronholm +2:47.1, 8. McRae +3:53.7, 9. Solberg +3:59.9, 10. Jean-Joseph +4:01.5.

 Markko Martin Out Big! @ 12:53 AM - The Estonian's Subaru hit a wall on SS15 and slid 80 metres down a slope!!! Both Markko and Beef are ok as the results of the final stage are on their way.

 Makinen Out in Rain @ 12:09 AM - He took a wheel off his Lancer on SS15 on wet stages. The top 10 remained the same on that stage apart from McRae taking ninth from Jean-Joseph.

 Two To Go @ 09:21 AM - After SS14: 1. Panizzi, 2. Loeb +33.5, 3. Auriol +56.7, 4. Sainz +1:39.7, 5. Travaglia +1:45.2, 6. Delecour +2:26.8, 7. Gronholm +3:04.0, 8. Solberg +3:17.2, 9. Jean-Joseph +3:39.3, 10. McRae +4:06.3, 11. Makinen +4:14.5.

 More Problems @ 09:16 AM - Hagstrom Crashed near the end of SS13 and Gronholm has lost a further minute on SS14 with power steering problems.

 Gronholm Struggles @ 08:01 AM - His Peugeot lost power-steering 7kms from the end of SS13. Wrestling the car through the twisty stage lost him around one minute. SS14 is reported to be damp.

 End of Leg 2 Positions @ 04:04 AM - After SS12: 1. Panizzi, 2. Loeb +34.5, 3. Auriol +41.8, 4. Gronholm +1:10.5, 5. Sainz +1:36.4, 6. Travaglia +1:40.8, 7. Delcour +2:09.8, 8. Solberg +2:53.3, 9. Jean-Joseph +2:58.7, 10. McRae +3:27.0.

Sat October 6, 2001

 Skoda drivers improve on hardest day

 Thiry and Kresta moving up

 Puras and Bugalski plunge out

 How The 3 Remaining Subaru's Faired

 Burns Out, French Teams Excelling

NEWS JUST IN

 Bugalski Out Now Too @ 08:56 AM - Bugalski has now stopped in SS8 with no fuel pressure and has retired. The positions are: 1. Panizzi, 2. Auriol +35.2, 3. Loeb +36.1, 4. Sainz +1.05.1, 5. Gronholm + 1.06.4, 6. Travaglia +1.23.6.

 Havock Continues @ 08:35 AM - The first two stages of the 2nd leg have continued to produce retirements and troubles. Arai lost a wheel 4kms into SS7, Jesus Puras crashed his Citroen out of the event in SS7bis, Bugalski lost 30s from a frontal impact and Markko is continuing with damage to the side of his car with 3 mins lost.

Fri October 5, 2001

 San Remo, End Of Day One

 Difficult debut for Lancer Evo WRC

 Hard day for Skoda crews

 Schwarz retires with electrical problems

 French cars dominate the Ford boys

NEWS JUST IN

 End of Leg One @ 06:02 PM - Overall positions at the end of Leg One of the San Remo Rally are as follows: 1. PURAS (1:31:41.4) 2. PANIZZI (1:31:42.9) 3. BULGASKI (1:31:57.5 4. AURIOL (1:32:08.0) 5. LOEB (1:32:12.8) 6. GRONHOLM (1:32:18.1) 7. SAINZ (1:32:32.1) 8. DELECOUR (1:32:50.6) 9. TRAVAGLIA (1:32:53.1) 10. SOLBERG (1:32:55.1)..... Keep it WRC-Online.net for info as it happens

 Panizzi moves into 1st @ 01:07 PM - Times after SS4(5): 1. Panizzi 2.Puras +0.5s 3.Gronholm +11.2s 4.Auriol +19.1s 5.Bugalski +21.6s 6.Loeb +24.3s 7.Sainz +28.8s 8.Delecour +33.8s 9.Solberg +44.0s 10.Martin +46.9s  

 French teams dominate @ 12:04 AM - Times after SS3(4): 1. Puras 2.Panizzi +3.9s 3.Gronholm +15.2s 4.Auriol +19.6s 5.Loeb +25.8s 6.Sainz +28.6s 7.Bugalski +28.6s 8.Delecour +33.3s 9.Solberg +39.5s 10.Martin +39.7s 

 Puras leads after SS2b @ 09:47 AM - Times after SS2b: 1. Puras  2.Panizzi +1.9s  3.Gronholm +7.7s  4.Auriol +14.0s  5.Sainz +16.4s   6.Loeb +19.6s   7.Delecour +22.2s   8.Bugalski +25.7s   9.Martin +28.9s   10.Travaglai +31.0s

 Other Subies In Trouble @ 08:19 AM - Toshi Arai and Markko Martin have complained of handling problems on the first stage after coming in 18th and 11th. Solberg was 9th.