Panizzi is favourite with bookies

If you are looking to put money on the Frenchman to win, you'll be pushed to find better odds than the 11-4 Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is offering. Out of his two team mates, Marcus Gronholm and Richard Burns, the bookies seem to reckon that Gronholm will again be the faster of the two world champions.

But out to spoil Peugeot's party will be Citroen and out of the three works Xsaras competing in Spain, hotshoe Sebastien Loeb seems to be the biggest threat. He blitzed the opposition in the Super 1600 competition here last year and the best price you'll find on the 28-year-old is 11-2. Compatriot and team mate Philippe Bugalski may well be a force in Spain too; 'Le Petit Bug's' odds match those of Loeb.

A dark horse in Spain could be Jesus Puras. He is in a slightly older privateer Xsara, but at 10-1, that could be the best value each-way bet you'll get from the Peugeot/Citroen entries.

Bookmakers see the rest of the field fighting over the scraps left behind by the two French teams and chances are that Subaru and Ford will count themselves extremely lucky if one of their drivers gets on the podium.

Out of these two teams, Petter Solberg might be worth an each-way flutter.


Gilles Panizzi 11-4
Sebastien Loeb 11-2
Philippe Bugalski 11-2
Marcus Gronholm 7-1
Richard Burns 15-2
Jesus Puras 10-1
Petter Solberg 12-1
Carlos Sainz 12-1
Tommi Makinen 12-1
Colin McRae 14-1
Thomas Radstrom 25-1
Francois Delecour 33-1
Harri Rovanpera 33-1
Alister McRae 50-1
Armin Schwarz 80-1
Freddy Loix 80-1
Stig Blomqvist 80-1
Toni Gardemeister 80-1
Kenneth Eriksson 80-1
Bruno Thiry 100-1
Tomasz Kuchar 100-1

(correct at time of publishing)