Petter Solberg Claims Victory at Rally of Italy
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Petter Solberg of Norway won his third straight rally as he drove his Subaru to victory at the Rally of Italy in Sardinia. The win kept alive his fading chances of retaining the world title.
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Petter Solberg turned up the heat on world championship rival Sebastien Loeb with a blistering display on stage six to close in on the Wales Rally GB leader.
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ESTORIL (Portugal): Italy&#39;s Valentino Rossi won the MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix yesterday for the fourth year in a row after snatching the lead on the first lap.
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Solberg got off to an astonishing start, winning three of the opening four stages to charge into a 20-second lead before losing a handful of seconds to Loeb on stages five and six.
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Heikki Kovalainen of Finland beat world rally champion Sebastien Loeb of France to win the Race of Champions on Saturday. Kovalainen downed Loeb 2-0 in a best-of-three legs final at Stade de France after overcoming
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Sebastien Loeb has won his sixth event of the season, claiming victory in Telstra Rally Australia this afternoon. The Frenchman led from the moment Marcus Gronholm crashed his Peugeot yesterday morning, and has taken a 1m55.
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OLBIA, Italy : Norway&#39;s reigning world champion Petter Solberg, driving a Subaru Impreza, took the overnight lead in the Rally of Italy, the 13th round of the 16-race world championship, here in Sardinia.
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Norway&#39;s rally ace Petter Solberg in his Subaru lost seconds on every curve in Rally of Corsica at the weekend, and Citroen driver Sebastien Loeb became the new world rally champion on Sunday after finishing second behind Ford&#39;s Markko Martin.
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ARE, Sweden  - Patrick Staudacher sprung a huge surprise on Tuesday when he became the first Italian male world champion in an Alpine skiing speed event for 55 years with a gold-medal run in the men's super-G.
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PORTO CERVO, Sardinia -- Norway&#39;s Petter Solberg made a storming start to the Rally of Italy as he built up a lead of more than half a minute after three stages.
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nother stage victory for race leader Petter Solberg, his fifth since the start of the rally. The Subaru driver is not pulling away at a fast pace from Gronholm and Loeb but the gap is nonetheless increasing steadily.
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Marcus Gronholm was back in his element on the first day of Rally Australia, holding a 21-second lead over Sebastien Loeb after a day on the gravel roads of Rally Australia, the final round of the 2004 World Rally Championship.
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Austria&#39;s Johann Grugger celebrates after winning the World Cup men&#39;s downhill race in Bormio, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.
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Norway's reigning world champion Petter Solberg stormed to his third straight Rally of Great Britain win to snatch victory from long time race leader Sebastien Loeb.
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Sebastien Loeb crowned his first world championship with a runaway win in the season-ending Rally of Australia on Sunday. The Frenchman finished one minute 55.
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France&#39;s Sebastien Loeb won his first world rallying title by finishing second in the Rally of France. He succeeded Didier Auriol, who was France&#39;s only other world champion a
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World champion Sebastien Loeb wins his third successive Monte Carlo Rally.