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The 40-year-old prince, fourth in line to the Swedish throne, replaced co-driver Julien Ingrassia in Ogier’s Toyota Yaris for the 1.90km warm-up at the town’s trotting track. The pair posted second fastest time and Ogier joked: “I’m considering to change co-driver. What are you doing this weekend?” “I’m free!” said the Prince. “It was great, fantastic, […]
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Following a positive meeting between representatives of Rally Sweden, the FIA, WRC Promoter and the WRC teams, and in the interest of continuing to provide top entertainment to rally fans at the Karlstad stage, the stage will be run as a second part of the morning’s Shakedown, rather than as a competitive stage. Each of […]
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Next week’s Rally Sweden (13 – 16 February), the second round of the FIA World Rally Championship, will go ahead following a positive inspection of the event route by the FIA on Tuesday. Following unseasonably warm weather in the Värmland region of Sweden and across the border in Norway, FIA sporting delegate Timo Rautiainen inspected […]
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Despite the recent unseasonably warm weather, the rally organisers are confident that the current forecasts of colder weather ahead, will bring frozen roads and also some snow before the event. Rally Sweden CEO Glenn Olsson spent last week at the WRC season opener Rallye Monte Carlo consulting with key stakeholders, the FIA and WRC Promoter, […]
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Prior to this year’s premiere there have been a lot of changes in the teams. The world champion Ott Tänak is in Hyundai, this year together with the team veteran Thierry Neuvile. The team also includes seven-time Monte Carlo winner, Sébastien Loeb, who will be one of two extra drivers. And it was Hyundai and […]
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A number of total 54 cars are registered to WRC where there are a lot of changes seen in the WRC since last year. Sebastien Ogier is now behind the wheel in Toyota and into the Japanese-Finnish team is now also stepping up the young Finnish talent and winner of the 2019 WRC2 class, Kalle […]
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“Our ambition has been to sign a new three-year agreement and now we are finally there. Everyone who’s been struggling together with us carries an important part in this and I would like to thank our organisation and our marshals, our public and private partners, and above all, our visitors and fans” says Rally Sweden’s […]
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The Estonian showed no signs of any nervs when he cruised all the way to the finsih line, ending with seriously impressive win at the Power Stage. In the end he was 53 seconds ahead of Esa-Pekka Lappi in second and 56 ahead of Neuville in third. Mads Ostberg was also cruising his way to […]
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The couple managed to take the stage win all the way through, having no problem securing the victory. In the end, the margin down to second place was a little over a minute. Mats Jonsson did the same thing, but with second place that is, being the closest to Solberg on every stage. Patrik Dybeck […]
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Suninen went off just before the finish on SS10, costing about a minute and a half before he could get the car back on the road again. Tänak now has a comfortable lead, 33 seconds, ahead of Andreas Mikkelsen in second and Elfvyn Evans in third. In the WRC2 Pro Mads Ostberg hasn’t really been […]
