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23/10/11
Still in the lead in the spanish P-WRC event

Patrik Flodin and his co-driver Göran Bergsten is in Spain attending the P-WRC event. The Rally started yesterday and the Swedish crew ended the day in the lead with 35.9 seconds after a day with a mix of gravel and tarmac stages.

The stages of today was tarmac stages only and that is not the favorite surface for the Swedish crew. Despite this they were able to keep the speed up and defend the lead. During the first three stages however they almost had to give away the lead to Michal Kosciuszko on second place.
-" I didn´t really get the pace during the first three stages today" says Patrik " We were able to get some more speed after service and everything felt much better"

They were able to gain some of the lost seconds during the afternoon and are still in the lead with eleven seconds for tomorrow.
-" We will have to go flat out tomorrow. I promise that I will do everything I can to keep the lead over the finnish line" Patrik promise us.

Six stages on tarmac will finnish the rally tomorrow. the rally will start at 07.02 and the finnish is calculated to 15.14.

P-wrc Rally-Spain after day 2
1. Patrik Flodin 3:24:18.0
 
2. Michal Kosciuszko (Pol) 3:24:29.0 +11,0
3. Benito Guerra (Mex) 3:32:10.3 +7:52.3
4. Bader Al Jabari (Are) 3:40:56.5
+16:38.5
5. Valeriy Gorban (Ukr ) 3:44:45.1 +20:27.1
6. Oleksandr Saliuk (Ukr) 3:45:33.1 +21:15.1
7. Nicolás Fuchs (Per) 3:46:25.7 +22:07.7
8. Gianluca Lianari (I) 3:46:31.3 +22:13.3
9. Aleksev Kirkkeshko (Ukr) 3:53:30.6 +29:12.6
10. Carles Llinas (E) 3:55:13.6 +30:55.6