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| Sébastien Loeb is the No. 1 of the IRDA World Rally Ranking
Sébastien LOEB is without question the number one of international rallying, as confirmed by the 2010 world ranking WRR (World Rally Ranking) promoted by the IRDA (International Rally Drivers Association), the first place is always occupied by the French driver, in second place the Norwegian Petter SOLBERG (Citroen), the podium is completed by Finnish Jari-Matti LATVALA (Ford), who climbs up one place ahead of the other French driver of the Citroen Team, Sébastien OGIER. Juho HANNINEN is placed fifth place, but the Skoda Team driver is the number one amongst the drivers behind the wheel of a Super 2000 car. In the first 10 drivers in the world, there are three Finns, two French and two Norwegians, a Spanish, an English and a Czech. The world number one of snow rallyes is the Finnish Team Ford driver Mikko HIRVONEN, the number one on tarmac is surprisingly Juho HANNINEN, and the number one on gravel is still Sébastien LOEB. 1630 drivers from the 5 continents and 72 countries in the world, after the running of the 143 international rallies in the FIA calendar, have scored the necessary results to enter the World Rally Ranking. This is the final standing of the new IRDA ranking for the first 20 positions: 1) Sébastien Loeb - 2) Petter Solberg - 3) Jari-Matti Latvala - 4) Sebastien Ogier 5) Juho Hanninen - 6) Mikko Hirvonen - 7) Dani Sordo - 8) Matthew Wilson 9) Jan Kopechy - 10) Henning Solberg - 11) Luca Rossetti - 12) Bruno Magalhaes 13) Federico Villagra - 14) Kris Meeke - 15) Martin Prokop - 16) Antonin Tlustak 17) Andreas Mikkelsen - 18) Khalid Al Quassimi - 19) Patrick Sandell - 20) James Whyte Number 1 in Europe is: Sebastien Loeb, Petter Solberg is second, al terzo Jari-Matti Latvala Number 1 in Asia is: Katsu Taguchi, Gaurav Gill is second, al terzo Rifat Sungkar Number 1 in the Middle East is: Khalid Al Quassimi, Nasser Al Attiyah is second, Misfer Al Marri is third Number 1 in Africa is: James Whyte, Giancarlo Davite is second, Christakis Fitidis is third Number 1 in South America is: Federico Villagra, Nicolas Fuchs is second, Diego Dominguez is third Number 1 in North America is: Ricardo Trivino, Ken Block is second, Francisco Name is third Number 1 in Oceania is: Hayden Paddon, Chris Atkinnson is second, Emma Gilmour is third |