Rallye de France- Alsace Kicked off on Thursday night with a 3.63km Super Special stage. Thierry Neuville, a man who is part of Citroens Junior team and is one of the drivers rumoured to join the works team for 2013, took the stage win and Leads the Rally in France over 2nd place Jari Matti Latvala. Neuville said at stage end.”Good feeling with the car, we slide a bit, hope it will be a perfect weekend”.

SS1 3.63kms. SS1 Neuville JML+0.8 Hirvo+1.3 PSolb+1.3 Sordo+1.3 Chardonnet+1.4 Loeb+1.6 Tanak+2.5 Novi+3.6 Atko+4.2 Ogier+4.5 Ostb+4.5 Prok+5.1 Dumas+5.4