"It would have been so easy to get caught out," remarked Sordo before the podium ceremony. "It really has been a difficult event: a single bend could have compromised all the good work put in by everyone in the team and the chance for Citroën to close the gap in the championship. I am please to have finished third and my times were on a par with what I was hoping for."

With two cars on the podium, Sébastien Loeb now on top of the Drivers' championship and Citroën closer to the lead in the Manufacturers' standings, Olivier Quesnel was also understandably delighted with the way the weekend turned out.

"It's an excellent result for us. When you see how the event unfolded, it clearly wasn't an easy rally, yet both our crews figured amongst the few who didn't put a foot wrong. Apart from the steering rack problem which slowed Dani on Friday, we didn't have any mechanical trouble either. The combination of two such sure-footed drivers and the reliability of the C4 has enabled us to go top in the Drivers' standings and also make up much of our deficit in the Manufacturers' points table. It's now up to us to keep up the hard work."

Rally Argentina : Final Result

1  Loeb-Elena             Citroën C4 WRC      5h05'48"6
2  Atkinson-Prevot        Subaru Impreza WRC  +  2'33"2
3  Sordo-Martí            Citroën C4 WRC      +  4'04"7
4  Rautenbach-Senior      Citroën C4 WRC      + 20'03"5
5  Hirvonen-Lehtinen      Ford Focus WRC      + 25'15"3
6  Villagra-Pérez Companc Ford Focus WRC      + 27'42"0
7  Galli-Bernacchini      Ford Focus WRC      + 27'51"8
8  Aigner-Wicha           Mitsubishi Lancer   + 28'59"3
9  Beltrán-Rojas          Mitsubishi Lancer   + 30'04"9
10 Ketomaa-Teiskonen      Subaru Impreza      + 31'52"6

Manufacturers' championship

1 Ford      44 points
2 Citroën   41 points 
3 Subaru    33 points
4 Stobart   22 points
5 Munchi's  10 points
6 Suzuki     6 points

Drivers championship

1  Sébastien Loeb      30 points
2  Mikko Hirvonen      25 points
3  Chris Atkinson      22 points
4  Jari-Matti Latvala  16 points
5  Gigi Galli          11 points
6  Dani Sordo           9 points 
-  Petter Solberg       9 points
8  Conrad Rautenbach    5 points
-  Federico Villagra    5 points 
-  François Duval       5 points
11 Andreas Mikkelsen    4 points
-  Henning Solberg      4 points
13 Matthew Wilson       3 points
14 Jean Marie Cuoq      2 points
-  Toni  Gardemeister   2 points
16 Andreas Aigner       1 point
-  Per-Gunnar Andersson 1 point
-  Juho Hänninen        1 point
-  Sébastien Ogier      1 point

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Source: Citroen