Colin McRae drove his WRC Ford Focus to an outstanding victory at
the Acropolis Rally, thus giving Pirelli it’s 120th World Rally
Championship success. Thanks to their result, McRae and Ford lead
now the World Championship standings.
Pirelli won every stage of the event except the final one and
underlined the exceptional performance of the PZero gravel tyres
range by the fact that every one of the factory drivers from Ford
and Subaru took at least one Stage win during this gruelling rally.
Both the X and XR pattern tyres won Stages during the event.
Petter Solberg (Subaru-Pirelli) ensured a third consecutive 1-2
result (after the ones in Argentina and Cyprus) but there was
disappointment for both Carlos Sainz and Richard Burns who were
forced to retireduring Leg 3, denying Pirelli a more than possible
1-2-3-4 result.
Group N was, as usual, a Mitsubishi-Pirelli triumph with
Argentinian Gabriel Pozzo winner ahead of Gustavo Trelles and
Marcos Ligato.
The WRC now moves to Kenya and the challenge of repeating the
Pirelli 1-2-3 result of last year where Richard Burns won without a
single puncture.

Final Standings:
1. C. McRae (Ford-Pirelli),
4h19m01.9;
2. Solberg (Subaru-Pirelli) +49.0;
3. Rovanpera (Peugeot) +1m35.7;
4. Makinen (Mitsubishi) +2m15.3;
4. Delecour (Ford-Pirelli) +2m35.4;
6. Bugalski (Citroen) +4m00.2;
7. Schwarz (Skoda) +5m56.7;
8. Jean-Joseph (Peugeot) +7m27.1 ; . . .;
13. (e 1 di Gr.N) Pozzo (Mitsubishi-Pirelli)

World Champ. Standings (after 7 out of 14 events)
Drivers:
1. C. McRae e Makinen p.30;
3. Sainz 26;
4. Burns 15;
5. Rovanpera 14;
6. Delecour 11;
7. Auriol 10;
8. Solberg 9;
9. Loix 7;
10. Radstrom 6; . . .
Manufacturers:
1. Ford-Pirelli P.60;
2. Mitsubishi 53;
3. Subaru-Pirelli 28;
4. Peugeot 20;
5. Skoda 11;
6. Hyundai 10

Next Event: Safari Rally (Kenya, all gravel) 20-22 July