The Westhill Rally started with two stages, earlier this week: a super technical prologue stage, set around the famous Westlodge Hotel of Westhill, followed by a much bigger, flowing and fast Stage 1 around the east part of the course.

23 Rally drivers showed up for the challenge, and the Prologue was off to a spectacular start: [MRC] TimDC and SSM X Silva battled till the last second for the stage win.
Tim pressured Silva, who eventually touched a tyre and received a 2 seconds time penalty, demoting him to second at the chequered flag!

It was the first stage win of the season for [MRC] Tim, followed by Silva and TAV-Suforr in 3rd.

Stage 1 was the biggest stage of the season so far, and saw much bigger gaps between drivers: the long, fast but still technical course provided plenty of challenges for the drivers, and lots of mistakes all around the field translated into another exciting battle at the front.

This time, it was Kyr1l? the main rival for SSM x Silva: the two of them had a pretty much evenly matched run through the rally, till the last sector where Silva created a bit of time difference.
At the end, the norwegian ace managed to pull off a 2.4 seconds gap on the russian rival, but another 2 seconds time penalty for Silva meant that he won the stage by just 4 TENTHS!

Insane close gap after a nearly 7 minutes long stage.


RALLY HIGHLIGHTS





SSM x K@nflict had a very fast run, slotting in P3 for his best result of the season with the new SSM Colours: SGR Madjester was another protagonist, with a good run for P4, and ZFRL Thehemuli confirmed his improvement in this rally so far, with a solid P5.

Here it is a detailed look at the stage results!



PROLOGUE RESULTS




STAGE 1 RESULTS




RALLY TIME STANDINGS AFTER 2 STAGES

(only the drivers who completed all the stages are counted for the classification)




The World Rally Cup now takes a week break, before jumping into the longest and most spectacular stage of the all season.

The Westhill Super Stage, a challenge that will split the man from the boys and will determine the Westhill Rally winner.

Who will master the Super Stage and write his name into the World Rally Cup Hall of Fame?

See you on monday, March 10th for the event!