{"id":33049,"date":"2020-02-16T18:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T17:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/?p=33049"},"modified":"2020-02-16T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T17:01:56","slug":"ostberg-seals-wrc-2-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/ostberg-seals-wrc-2-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d8stberg seals WRC 2 victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Norwegian, co-driven by Torstein Eriksen, had led the rally since the second stage on Friday. He entered Sunday’s finale with a 15.8sec lead over Ole Christian Veiby. A stage win on the Likenäs speed test ensured that the Citroën C3 pilot finished the rally 23.4sec clear of fellow countryman Veiby<\/p>\n

“It feels really good. It was a challenging weekend and to have 50 points after Monte-Carlo and Sweden we are extremely happy,” said Østberg.<\/p>\n

Pontus Tidemand was third on a one-off outing in a Skoda Fabia. The Swede was unable to match the pace of the leading pair and ended the rally 14.3sec behind Veiby.<\/p>\n

A final-stage push for M-Sport Ford man Adrien Fourmaux paid off as he overtook team-mate Rhys Yates to snatch fourth. Just 7.7sec separated the Fiesta duo as they arrived at the finish.<\/p>\n

Nikolay Gryazin rounded out the standings in sixth. His rally took a turn for the worse on Saturday morning’s Nyckelvattnet stage when he was forced to stop and change a puncture on his Hyundai i20.<\/p>\n

With considerable time loss and not many stages left to run, the Russian youngster was unable to drag himself back up the standings.<\/p>\n

Credit: Courtesy of wrc.com<\/a> – the official website of the FIA World Rally Championship<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Norwegian, co-driven by Torstein Eriksen, had led the rally since the second stage on Friday. He entered Sunday’s finale with a 15.8sec lead over Ole Christian Veiby. A stage win on the Likenäs speed test ensured that the Citroën C3 pilot finished the rally 23.4sec clear of fellow countryman Veiby “It feels really good. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":33050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,90,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en-en","category-news-sv-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallysweden.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}