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SS4: Kimi Raikkonen crashes out

Sebastien Loeb wrapped up a perfect opening day

By Franck Drui

9 July 2010 - 17:29

Citroen Junior Team driver Kimi Raikkonen made a dramatic exit from the opening day of Rally Bulgaria, crashing his C4 World Rally Car out of fourth place on Friday’s final stage.

The Formula One star was 19.5km into the repeated Belmen Lake stage when his car left the road. Kimi and his co-driver Kaj Lindstrom were uninjured in the accident.

Emergency vehicles were despatched to the scene, and cars behind Raikkonen were yellow flagged and completed the stage at slow speed.

Before the incident, Sebastien Loeb wrapped up a perfect opening day on Rally Bulgaria by setting the fastest time though SS4 and completing a clean sweep of stage wins.

Overall standings after SS4:

Pos.	Driver	Car	Time
01	Sébastien LOEB	Citroën C4 WRC	1h05m26.7s
02	Dani SORDO	Citroën C4 WRC	+28.1s
03	Petter SOLBERG	Citroën C4 WRC	+38.0s
04	Mikko HIRVONEN	Ford Focus WRC	+1m10.9s
05	Jari-Matti LATVALA	Ford Focus WRC	+1m21.2s
06	Sébastien OGIER	Citroën C4 WRC	+1m31.3s
07	Per Gunnar ANDERSSON	Ford Focus WRC	+2m26.3s
08	Frigyes TURAN	Peugeot 307 WRC	+2m49.1s
09	Matthew WILSON	Ford Focus WRC	+3m45.6s
10	Henning SOLBERG	Ford Fiesta S2000	+4m43.4s
11	Mathieu ARZENO	Citroën C2 S1600	+5m17.6s
12	Thierry NEUVILLE	Citroën C2 S1600	+5m19.4s
13	Dimitar ILIEV	Skoda Fabia S2000	+5m25.1s
14	Jasen POPOV	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	+5m34.3s
15	Hans WEIJS	Citroën C2 S1600	+5m46.7s