Lloret de Mar, Oct 25: Corsican rally winner Petter Solberg, who set a blistering pace in his Subaru to win the slippery first stage, suffered a double setback before dropping down to 10th place in the standings. The Norwegian picked up a puncture on stage two and was handed a 50-second time penalty before the fourth stage for arriving five minutes late at a time control following a problem with his alternator. Solberg is now one minute 29.5 seconds behind Loeb.

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