Here are the highlights of day three and four of the Monte Carlo Rallye.

The event has now concluded with Loeb taking a well deserved victory. The Mini team must also be well pleased with their second place result, not to mention Petter Solberg and Mikko Hirvonen's excellent debuts for Ford and Citroen respectively.

 

Final Top 5 Positions:

 1.  Sebastien Loeb - Citroen      

 2.  Dani Sordo - Mini           

 3.  Petter Solberg - Ford           

 4.  Mikko Hirvonen - Citroen        

 5.  Evgeny Novikov  - M-Sport Ford 

 

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Since the start of Speedhunters in 2008, I've made a point of reading literally every single comment posted on our stories. I'm always interested to see what you think of our work, both the good and the bad. There are always changes going on in automotive trends and tastes, and reading your comments helps to provide snapshots of the Speedhunters audience's mood at any given moment. So when the results of the Great Speedhunters Audience survey came up last month, there weren't too...

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Paddy McGrath

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Paddy McGrath

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