Leg Two: Panizzi looking good

With the two leading Citroens crashing out of the event in this morning's flurry of stages, the leaderboard of the San Remo Rally was turned on its head. And while young Citroen hotshoe Sebastian Loeb managed to set his two first fastest times on a WRC event to lie second tonight it is the Peugeots that are now setting the pace.

Didier Auriol has been trading places with Loeb all day but with the Citroen not registered for points, first and third would still give Peugeot a maximum haul from an event that looks likely to have little overall bearing on this year's championship quest.

With Ford the 'best of the rest', the disastrous event that is unfolding for Colin McRae, Tommi Makinen and Richard Burns (the top three contenders before the start) may have been turned into something a little more benign with little change to the title leaderboard come tomorrow evening.

Alister McRae became the event's latest high profile retirement when a loss of brakes forced him to withdraw before the final stage in the mountains above San Remo while Subaru's Petter Solberg had a nerve-racking drive back to service after smashing his rear suspension on the final stage and losing
a place to Ford's Francois Delecour.

Four stages lie in wait tomorrow, two different tests each run twice. Last year pitiful arrangements by the organisers for safe spectating forced the cancellation of several stages on the final day and the organisers are currently on a 'yellow card' from the sport's rulers, the FIA, as a result.

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