2012 WRC Sporting Regulations and Appendices (english) 1.22 Mb
So, it's now a part of the history - the final day of the final round of the final WRC cars era championship. We say goodbye to the entire era. And despite all the efforts of the main rival, today the victory was taken by the person, which may be called The King of that era. Sebastien Loeb completed Wales Rally Great Britain with the 62nd win in his WRC career. The Petter Solberg's second place provided him with a third position in the season, and Jari-Matti Latvala's Welsh bronze promoted young Finn to vice-championship. All the other titles in the other categories are decided, too. The season's curtain fell. To be exact - the entire era's curtain fell. And there is a very close feeling for everybody. The feeling that is very similar to the name of the movie in memory of pop music king... That's it!
The Welsh roads are usually muddy and slippery. But the strong rain started almost in the very beginning of the rally, making them even more difficult. Ruts and plenty of water became a serious trouble for everybody. And these troubles were followed by the differences in stage times that could be called huge for the only first day of the event! That situation could be noticed in most of the competition categories... Latvala tried to escape from Loeb - but failed, and the real fight is between Seb and Petter now. Patrik Flodin first managed to establish the P-WRC leadership, that seemed comfortable, but... dropped to third only. So there is probably only one leader, who can feel himself more or less comfortable, and his name is Andreas Mikkelsen in S-WRC...
The new Slavic Cup Rally appeared to be absolutely unpredictable. But let's proceed step by step.
"Uspenskiy Rally Tecnica" - it is about fast and reliable cars, professional engineers and experienced mechanics, efficient logistics and strongest crews. Everything it takes to think only about victory and aim to it! 
It was the decisive day of Wales Rally GB. Gaps inside the leading trio of the PWRC were so big, that nobody was eager to push too much.
It was the guest from Italy Marco Tempestini, who adapted to the challenging conditions better than anybody else and, having found the ideal balance between speed and reliability, won the event in a dominant fashion to win the prestigious Cup.
While foreign sportsmen will be fighting for the laurels of the East European Rally Cup, Russian (as well as Ukrainian) crews will come to Novorossiysk to sort things out in the National championship.
European Cup series are coming to the season's end. Their outcome could be quite logical, but for the possibility of an upturn in one of them.