Overcoming late-rally disappointments on recent ERC events, Russian driver Alexei Lukyanuk dominated the all-asphalt Canarias Rally, winning by nearly a minute.
Alexei Lukyanuk took a convincing win in the Canarias Rally.He led home fellow Fiesta R5 driver, the reigning champion Kajetan Kajetanowicz. Â
Leading Under 28 Junior was Jose Maria Lopez (Peugeot Rally Academy 208T16) and best Under 27 Junior driver was Chris Ingram (Opel Adam R2). Â
Still leading the championship is Bruno Magalhaes (Fabia R5) who had been challenging hard for second place. Â
Although the weather was mainly fine, there were an inordinate number of dramatic accidents. Before the rally started, Lucasz Habaj spun his car head-on into a road face, then Tomasz Kasperczyk had an extraordinary escape when he left the road, being stopped from falling a long way down by a guardrail holding the car back, even though wheels were already suspended over the edge.
Jan Cerny rolled down a hill over the top of a guardrail, and Sergio Vallejo impacted a tree.
Kajetan Kajetanowicz took second place.PROVISIONAL TOP 10 POSITIONS (after 12 stages, 207.29 kilometres)
1 Alexey Lukyanuk (RUS)/Alexey Arnautov (RUS) Ford Fiesta R5 2h05m51.8s
2 Kajetan Kajetanowicz (POL)/Jarek Baran (POL) Ford Fiesta R5 +57.2s
3 Bruno Magalhães (PRT)/Hugo Magalhães (PRT) ŠKODA Fabia R5 +1m03.6s
4 Iván Ares (ESP)/José Pintor (ESP) Hyundai i20 R5 +1m15.4s
5 Luis Monzón (ESP)/José Carlos Deniz (ESP) Ford Fiesta R5 +1m28.7s
6 José MarÃa López (ESP)/Borja Rozada (ESP) Peugeot 208 T16 +1m33.8s
7 Cristian GarcÃa (ESP)/Eduardo Gonzalez (ESP) Ford Fiesta R5 +1m41.4s
8 Sylvain Michel (FRA)/Jérôme Degout (FRA) ŠKODA Fabia R5 +1m43.7s
9 Bryan Bouffier (FRA)/Denis Giraudet (FRA) Ford Fiesta R5 +2m23.2s
10 Marijan Griebel (DEU)/Stefan Kopczyk (DEU) Å KODA Fabia R5 +1m34.4s +2m37.1s
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