Four times champ S'en Loeb increased his lead in the ADAC Rally Deutschland -Germany- and cruises into victory.
The Frenchman was fastest in seven of Saturday's eight stages and will go into Sunday's final leg with a lead of 40.3 seconds over Citroen team mate Daniel Sordo of Spain.
The team is close to the first 1-2 of the year.
Loeb, who trails overall leader Hirvonen by one point, followed up his clean sweep of Friday's stages to register the quickest times in all but the last of Saturday's sections. "It's been a very good day," the Frenchman said. "The important thing is I have a good lead and it's looking very positive. I'm not taking any big risks, just concentrating on keeping a good rhythm and having fun."

Loeb's title rival Mikko Hirvonen was fourth in his Ford, one minute 48.2 seconds adrift, after the Finn suffered a puncture on the last stage.
Hirvonen was overtaken by Belgian Francois Duval of Stobart Ford who climbed into third spot, one minute 44.3 seconds off the pace. The finn told: "I didn't have any rhythm and made many small mistakes. I didn't trust my pace notes first time through the stages so I was too cautious and that's where I lost time. If there was a cut at a corner, I seemed to back off to see how slippery it was. I need to be braver and I didn't have the confidence to drive flat out like yesterday. No matter how hard I drove, I couldn't match Sordo's times.
The only difference from yesterday was that the stages had different characteristics. They were more like race circuit roads. On the final stage I hit a hole and the broken concrete punctured the rear tyre. I drove the final 8km on the wheel rim. I would have been happy to clear that stage and settle for third tomorrow. I dropped 45sec but there was no way I could have stopped to change it in that time so I made the right decision to continue.
Now I need to fight against Duval tomorrow and that won't be easy."

Norway's Subaru nr.1 driver Petter Solberg remained fifth behind HIrvonen, and gave his imopressions on the performance of the brand new Impreza:
"I didn't have any rhythm and made many small mistakes. I didn't trust my pace notes first time through the stages so I was too cautious and that's where I lost time. If there was a cut at a corner, I seemed to back off to see how slippery it was. I need to be braver and I didn't have the confidence to drive flat out like yesterday. No matter how hard I drove, I couldn't match Sordo's times.
The only difference from yesterday was that the stages had different characteristics. They were more like race circuit roads. On the final stage I hit a hole and the broken concrete punctured the rear tyre. I drove the final 8km on the wheel rim. I would have been happy to clear that stage and settle for third tomorrow.
I dropped 45sec but there was no way I could have stopped to change it in that time so I made the right decision to continue. Now I need to fight against Duval tomorrow and that won't be easy."

Galli undergoes surgery

Gigi Galli has undergone successful surgery on Friday night to a fractured left femur he injured during a high-speed accident on day one of Rally Germany.
The Italian is recovering well and is expected be released from hospital on Wednesday.
Doctors' have estimated that he will be unable to walk on the leg for six to eight weeks and will require physiotherapy after this time.
Co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini escaped injury in the accident while Stobart team boss Malcolm Wilson praised the strength of the roll cage for preventing serious injury.

ADAC Rallye Deutschland - day one top 15 overall