After pushing hard every inch of the way, Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen held on to second position in Rally Sweden. The Citroën Total World Rally Team crew now trail Jari-Matti Latvala by 23s ahead of the final day of racing. Day two was disputed on roads around Hagfors, with two runs on four classic...
A complete damper change at the mid-day service helped P-G Andersson move further ahead of the rest of the Super 2000 World Rally Championship field on Rally Sweden this afternoon. Andersson was forced to watch as his two-minute lead was beginning to be eroded by an increasingly confident Craig Breen (Ford), with the two-time Junior...
Volkswagen’s lineup for Rally Sweden looked very strong even before the start of the event and after two days of rallying in Norway and Sweden we can be happy with show provided by two very talented crews. Leading Volkswagen’s driver Sebastien Ogier was joined by Norwegian youngster Andreas Mikkelsen to compete in sweden and it...
Day two of Rally Sweden has seen Patrik Sandell settle into a rhythm in his MINI John Cooper Works WRC, retaining his eighth position throughout the day. Still in only his first event in a World Rally Car, Sandell has been coming to grips with the extra performance of the car.
Short final stage of the day did not bring much changes into the overall classification in Sweden with Jari-Matti Latvala holding on to top spot of the provisional podium with 23 seconds advantage over another Finn, Mikko Hirvonen.
It would be great if we could just cheer for our favourite team and/or driver or even cheer for them all (because this is rally and we’re like one huge family), but as of late we need to be careful about the influences of so called “high politics” as it’s making its way into World...
Seventeenth special stage went to Citroën’s Mikko Hirvonen as he tries hard to reduce the gap to Ford’s ace Jari-Matti Latvala. However, Hirvonen’s charge did not make a more significant dent in Latvala’s lead which is now 21.1 seconds coming into the last stage of the day.
Ford’s Jari-Matti Latvala finally managed to put some more distance between himself and Mikko Hirvonen. Topping the timesheets on SS 16 Latvala was able to increase his lead to 23.6 seconds, helped by the fact that Hirvonen was only fourth fastest through the stage.
