Catalunya - FinishThe 2004 Junior champions P-G Andersson (S, Suzuki) and co-driver Jonas Andersson drove to an impressive victory on the penultimate round of the 2007 FIA Junior Rally Championship, RallyRACC Catalunya - Costa Daurada.
Czech driver Martin Prokop
(Citroën) was happy to score eight points for second place and Urmo Aava (EE, Suzuki) bagged six points for third, only six seconds behind Prokop.
The result means Andersson and Aava head to the deciding round of the Championship on equal points in the FIA Juniors standings to battle for 2007 Juniors honours, although Andersson holds a slight advantage as his results tally shows three wins throughout the season to Aava's one.
While Andersson set the initial pace, fellow Suzuki driver Aava soon put the pressure on by winning five consecutive stages, holding the lead from SS3 into the second day. But a puncture on SS8 for the Estonian permitted both Andersson into the lead, as well as Prokop into second, leaving third spot to Aava.
Aava charged back, as seen by his impressive score in the Sprinter Standings, but ended just six seconds away from second place.
Jozef Bére (SK, Renault) struggled with a wrong tyre choice on the first day but after changing the set-up, things began to get better and he held fifth from SS3.
After Kalle Pinomäki (FIN, Renault), who took fourth from the outset, went off the road in SS9, Beres adopted fourth overall and drove carefully to hold position until the finish.
Conrad Rautenbach (ZW, Citroën) made a wrong tyre choice early on leg one, losing quite a lot of time, before dropping a little more time with a spin at a hairpin mid-stage on SS5. But things got better for the Zimbabwean and he finished fifth, which he held from SS11, despite experiencing brake problems on the final day.
On only the second asphalt event of his career, Vilius Rozukas (LT, Citroën) dropped four minutes changing a puncture on SS4, just six kilometres before the end. He made changes to the set-up on leg two but struggled with a temperamental gearbox for the first 3 kilometres of every stage during latter part of the day. He kept a steady pace on the final day to finish 11th.
Source WRC
