The official Uddeholm Swedish Rally Thread

[Koppomsbo]

Havnt seen any Official tread yet so here we go

Not long for the rally to start now, and today we have had snow and cold so lets hope for another good event in the snowy forests of Sweden.

Some links that may be useful

Official site of the rally
http://www.swedishrally.com/en,index.html

Entry list
http://www.swedishrally.com/resource...ved_by_fia.pdf

Entry list om the Swedish Championship part of the rally
http://www.resultatdata.com/rally/an...E4lningslistor

Rally Radio
http://www.wrc.com/jsp/wrr_pop.jsp

Split Times
http://zone.ee/wrcmasters/index.php

[MJW]

Takk for starting this, there are 2 events in WRC that really get me excited - Sweden and Finland.

[ln-ops]

I'm really looking forward to see Mads Østberg with his brand new Subaru S12b in Sweden. The car Atkinson and Solberg used to achive 3rd and 5th in Monte. Since they are not a works team, they are alowed to use parts as Rieger dampers (Ford only as a works team). Mads have said himself that car is really easy to drive, the engine is powerfull...

Maybe he will give Solberg a figth??

[SubaruNorway]

Mads Østberg's new beast can also be seen in this video from last weekends Rally Hadeland.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/1...30002605a3.htm

[Koppomsbo]

Originally Posted by ln-ops Maybe he will give Solberg a figth??

Hope so, that would be great

What other wrc rallies this year will mads do?

[MJW]

Originally Posted by Koppomsbo Hope so, that would be great What other wrc rallies this year will mads do?

No chance - Petter will get a podium, - I am very interested in Group N, and think that Eyvind Brynildsen will do well. Of the 2 Norwegian young guys in WRC's I do think Mads will beat Mikkelsen.

[Micke_VOC]

Some winters pictures from today from Tommy Lindholm

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs124&d=08056&f=dsc00224204.jpg
Start of Ullen-Stage (Hagfors)

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs124&d=08056&f=dsc00235639.jpg
Finish of Rämmen stage

[Viktory]

wow, looks VERY good!!!

[Roy]

Originally Posted by ln-ops I'm really looking forward to see Mads Østberg with his brand new Subaru S12b in Sweden. The car Atkinson and Solberg used to achive 3rd and 5th in Monte. Since they are not a works team, they are alowed to use parts as Rieger dampers (Ford only as a works team). Mads have said himself that car is really easy to drive, the engine is powerfull... Maybe he will give Solberg a figth??

Reiger, Dutch rally glory has also involved wit Suzuki for long term (JWRC). This season Reiger supplied also their suspension to Suzuki WRC team. Ford is a long term partner.

[RicKT]

Originally Posted by Micke_VOC Some winters pictures from today from Tommy Lindholm http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs124&d=08056&f=dsc00224204.jpg Start of Ullen-Stage (Hagfors) http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs124&d=08056&f=dsc00235639.jpg Finish of Rämmen stage

Them photos look the same as last year... so hopefully it will be perfect!

Rick

[J.Lindstroem]

Great threadstart with all those links and stuff! Think the ts should do that every time. I am really looking forward to the rally, Sebastien Loeb will be hard to beat i think, but off course Mikko and Jari-Matti will do everything so Loeb don't will repeat his 2004 result!

[Tom206wrc]

I hope a top 5 in PWRC for Patrik Sandell

[Koppomsbo]

during the night we have had another 10 cm of snow and its still snowing

[leno]

Originally Posted by Koppomsbo during the night we have had another 10 cm of snow and its still snowing

very good news

[SubaruNorway]

Nasser Al-Attyah testing in Norway http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/sport

[MHjerpe]

Report from Karlstad Rally village... Citroen and Pirelli lorries is there...
Weather.... + and rain we had lots of snow yesterday.. but now raining away.

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Some truckdrivers.. with frech registered lorries was caught in Göteborg with to much alcohol in the system... they had rallycars and rallyparts in the trucks.. ... hmmm ?

(move form other thread)

[Jaanus]

Urmo Aava tested for 130 kilometers this weekend near Karlstad. He said ground was frozen and it was snowing and it was difficult to drive. He said he used Loeb settings from last year and did not change it too much, just the suspension and centre diff a little bit. He also said it would take time to get used to this car and to drive it really fast.

[Tom206wrc]

Any pics of Patrik Sandell testing(in Norway also) ???

[eppel]

Originally Posted by Tom206wrc Any pics of Patrik Sandell testing(in Norway also) ???

http://www.patriksandell.com/3496.mms_blogg.html

[kleisj]

This rally will show how Hirvo can cope with the no1 status in the Ford team. Is a rally which he must win and I don't know how he can keep his cool with this thought. He is the favorite for this one. We know he has the speed to do it but I don't know how he can cope with the pressure of the favorite. Loeb is ultra cool and ofcourse ultra fast. He is gonna fight and will not let Mikko relax at any point. This will be very interesting and exciting fight to watch.
We wait and see...!