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Sébastien Loeb (Citroen) leads after two days of Rallye de France Alsace, thirty seconds ahead of Jari-Matti Latvala's Ford.

The Frenchman, who had a 13-second advantage on Friday evening, pulled an even greater lead when Jari-Matti Latvala lost about ten seconds going off-road in ESS10. The Finn was 29.7 seconds behind the Frenchman, but ahead of the second works Citroën car driven by Mikko Hirvonen.

Behind, Mads Ostberg (Ford) was standing in fourth position ahead of Dani Sordo (Mini) and Thierry Neuville (Citroen). The Belgian driver lost time in the morning's loop because of a penalty for checking in too late.

The ESS10 was cancelled following Nasser Al-Attiyah's accident. The Citroen driver went off road, which injured two spectators (one suffers a broken leg, the other a broken arm). Petter Solberg (Ford) had a very spectacular accident too, when he crossed the wine yards in the middle of the crowd, and hit an electrical pylon, which hit the floor afterward. Miraculously, nobody was hurt in the accident.



Classification after day 2 :
1. Loeb-Elena (Citroen DS3 Wrc) in 2.54'33"4

2. Latvala-Anttila (Ford Fiesta RS Wrc) + 29"7

3. Hirvonen-Lehtinen (Citroen DS3 Wrc) + 54"0
4. Ostberg-Andersson (Ford Fiesta RS Wrc) + 1'46"4
5. Sordo-Del Barrio (Mini Cooper Wrc) + 1'50"5

6. Neuville-Gilsoul (Citroen DS3 Wrc) + 1'54"4

7. Tanak-Sikk (Ford Fiesta RS Wrc) + 2'32"0
8. Novikov-Minor (Ford Fiesta RS Wrc) + 2'46"2
9. Atkinson-Prevot (Mini Cooper Wrc) + 6'14"9

10. Prokop-Hruza (Ford Fiesta RS Wrc) + 7'46"7
Etc.