Peugeot UK's IRC Champions Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle began Day Two of Rally Argentina in third place and were ready to pounce in case either of the drivers ahead of them faltered.

Fog on the hills, rolling down onto the stages, seemed to be the main threat facing them, but Kris and Paul started the day in good spirits. Kris set a number of good times on the morning’s stages and was holding a good third place as the rally entered the closing stages.

Unfortunately on the penultimate stage a front suspension arm broke, possibly caused by hitting one of the thousands of loose rocks on the stage, putting the Peugeot UK team out of the rally.

Peugeot UK also confirmed that it will compete in next month’s Rally Islas Canarias, which has just been added to the Intercontinental Rally Challenge.  The event, based in Gran Canaria, starts on April 29.

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For more information please contact Ian Sedgwick:
Tel: - 02476 884216
Mob: - 07881 500617
E-mail: - [email protected]

To obtain high resolution downloadable images and more information on the IRC programme please log onto the Peugeot Press website: www.peugeotpress.co.uk (Newspress passwords apply) - Motor Sport section.

Follow the day to day progress of Peugeot UK and Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle in this year's IRC Series via the team's Twitter link www.twitter.com/Peugeotrally video podcasts and web-based Rally Radio hosted on the Peugeot.co.uk web site and all main rally web sites, and the Peugeot co-sponsored iRally App for the iPhone.

If you want to watch the Day Two Vidcast, go to:

http://www.peugeot.co.uk/about-peugeot/sport/rally/peugeot-irc-rally-videocast

To download and embed as an flv file:

http://tbcpods.radica.com/peugeotirc/PeugeotIRC_LATEST/Flash_multiplayer/PeugeotIRCVID_38.flv