Markko Martin won the Acropolis rally, taking his first-ever WRC win. Carlos Sainz managed to keep Petter Solberg at bay to take second. Solberg held second place for most of the day, but some transmission problems and a little run-in with Colin McRae kept him from scoring 2 more points. Richard Burns did a fine job climbing into 4th place, after a terrible first two days. Tommi Makinen, despite never feeling quite comfortable with the settings in his Impreza, took fifth.

That leaves Burns on top of the driver’s championship standings, with Sainz sliding ahead of Marcus Gronholm in second. Burns is trying to repeat his championship run in 2000, where he only won a single rally, but still took the championship.

In other news….sorry about the lack of new Seb pictures on the site. We’ve got some on the camera — it’s just a matter of getting them up on the site….

Posted on 9 June 2003