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Loeb takes healthy lead into leg three

Sebastien Loeb's untroubled progress towards yet another Rally Deutschland victory continued through leg two, as he stretched his lead to 35.7 seconds

The world champion did not win any of this afternoon's four stages but his consistent speed still allowed him to ease further away from his double stage winning team-mate Dani Sordo.

Citroen's podium sweep looks more comfortable now, with Junior team driver Sebastien Ogier pulling away from Ford's Jari-Matti Latvala in their battle for third. They will start day three 16.6s apart.

Even worse for Ford, Mikko Hirvonen retired the second factory car from fifth when he lost drive on SS13. Stobart Ford driver Francois Duval inherited the place, only to roll into retirement on the following Panzerplatte stage.

That has allowed Petter Solberg to move up to fifth. The Solberg Citroen driver was thrilled with his car's performance as he took two stage wins - including a dominant performance on Panzerplatte - this afternoon.

The retirements ahead mean Kimi Raikkonen (Citroen Junior) is now sixth and edging away from Stobart's Matthew Wilson, while Hirvonen is still classified eighth under the superally system.

Just outside the top 10, a thrilling S2000 battle sees P-G Andersson, Patrik Sandell and Martin Prokop covered by just 5.6s, while Armindo Araujo and Hans Wiejs Jr continue to lead in the Production and Junior series respectively.

Pos  Driver              Car        Time/Gap
 1.  Sebastien Loeb      Citroen  3h05m21.6s
 2.  Dani Sordo          Citroen     + 35.7s
 3.  Sebastien Ogier     Citroen   + 2m07.1s
 4.  Jari-Matti Latvala  Ford      + 2m23.7s
 5.  Petter Solberg      Citroen   + 5m16.0s
 6.  Kimi Raikkonen      Citroen   + 7m24.4s
 7.  Matthew Wilson      Ford      + 7m43.9s
 8.  Mikko Hirvonen      Ford     + 12m27.4s
 9.  Ken Block           Ford     + 12m38.9s
10.  Mark van Eldik      Subaru   + 14m10.9s

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