The FIA World Rally Championship heads back across the Atlantic Ocean for round four of the 2008 series, Rally Argentina, which starts on 27 March.One of the Championship's most spectacular and demanding events, Rally Argentina is the second WRC fixture in the Americas this month and is based in the town of Villa Carlos Paz, 35km south of Cordoba and right in the heart of the stunning Cordobese Sierras.Citroen certainly has the best recent form in Argentina - having won the rally every year since 2004 - and 34-year-old Loeb is intent on continuing this winning streakThis will be Hirvonen's fifth Argentine start with third last year the best result for the 27-year-old Finn. As championship leader he will again be first in the start order on the opening day. If conditions are dry he is likely to encounter slippery loose gravel on the road surface in the morning, which he will sweep clean for the benefit of those behindFourth place in 2007 matched Latvala's career best result at the time on only his second start in Argentina. Since then the 22-year-old Finn's progress has been meteoric, stage victories on every loose surface rally dating back to Japan last season a clear indication of the progress that took him to victory in Sweden last monthThe leading trio can expect tough competition from 11 other WRC crews. Manufacturer entries from the Citroen, Ford, Subaru and Suzuki teams are the same as the first three rounds of the series, but there are changes to the Stobart and Munchi's squads. Stobart will field Ford Focus RS WRCs for Gigi Galli, Henning Solberg and Matthew Wilson, with Galli and Solberg nominated to score manufacturer points. The Munchi's team will run Ford Focus RS WRCs for its Argentine driver line-up of Federico Villagra and Luis Perez Companc. Conrad Rautenbach, the only other WRC entry, will drive a privately entered Citroen C4 WRC.
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