2010 Jordan Rally

March 28, 2010

Round 3 of the 2010 World Rally Championship (WRC) is the Jordan Rally, coming up March 31 – 3, 2010. The Jordan Rally will include the FIA World Rally Championship and the FIA Middle East Rally Championship.

The 2010 Jordan Rally circles the Dead Sea and features 21 different stages of 339.48 kilometers in total competitive distance. Among those is the Jordan River stage, running right alongside the Palestinian border, the longest rally at 41.45-kilometres, with the 2nd pass happening in the heat of the midday, which many on the inside and outside to suspect to believe could majorly impact the rally’s outcome.

The track will be a harder and smoother surface than one may expect for a WRC event, like many, held on a gravel surface, because much of the route is made of man-made blasted stages built into the desert rock.

Here’s what the prognosticators are saying about the likely outcome. One popular favorite is Mikko Hirvonen, the winner of the first World Rally Championship ever to be held in Jordan, in 2008, but if you were to ask him who he’s most nervous about, he’d no doubt say Frenchman Sebastien Loeb, who was a close call for Hirvonen’s 2008 title had a collision with Conrad Rautenbach not taken him out prematurely. This will no doubt only fuel Loeb’s attempt to, this year, claim his seventh world title. Hirvonen, meanwhile, already has a 2010 WRC win under his belt, from the season’s first race in February in Sweden. The second race, in Mexico, saw him flounder a bit, though he still managed fourth.

Meanwhile, some eyes are on last year’s second place WRC finisher Dani Sordo who is just bouncing back from a crash that took him out of the running in Mexico.

Other not-so-longshots for the WRC Jordan Rally April 1 – 3 are Petter Solberg of Norway and F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen of Finland.

Written by Rob · Filed Under Sports Betting News