The official Uddeholm Swedish Rally Thread

[dimviii]

time to see if Prokop will be in Podium! :D

[Bruno Portela]

It seems that Urmo Aava woke up, take a look at his splits.

[Bruno Portela]

Sandell flying

[jonkka]

Real problem for Loeb and Citroën is that they can ONLY use as per FIA rule 5 engines in 2008.
Sordo blew 1 in MC, now Loeb in Sweden.... still 13 events to go

It's five per car, ie. each has four left.

[Madeira]

still remaining another fight in the PWRC. The Portuguese Bernardo Sousa against Campedelli...

[dimviii]

Sandel 5,9 secs faster than Prokop!!

[ProRally]

It's five per car, ie. each has four left.

Correct, but plan is to use engine for 3 events, Sordo lost his on the 1st of 3, Loeb on the 2nd of 3.
It this continues they will have a HUGE problem later in the year.

In Mexico most M teams will have final event for engine nr1 and Citroën will have engine nr2 already in use ... (as an example, you know what I mean)

[consti]

great win for the young fin!

some results that screw my pickems up, but that's more then fine

actual championship standings:
http://www.1asport.de/sport/Rallye/Rallye_Fahrerwertung_q2.html

[dimviii]

9 sec faster than Prokop!!!!!!!!!

[Tom206wrc]

With one split to go, Sandell has already more than 9s advantage over Prokop... ;)

[Woodeye]

Congrats to J-M and Miika, amazing, superb first win! :D :up:

I think it's fair to say that now he really is one of the flying Finns! And I also thing that if he just manages to keep up speed like this he will be also fighting for the championship.

I'm one happy woodeye right now. :D

[Tom206wrc]

SANNNNNDDEELLLLL TAKES 3RD PLACE IN PWRC !!!!! :bounce: :bounce: :up:

[Mirek]

Yep, Sandell was far faster than any other PWRC driver in this stage. Anyway, he deserves podium.

[A.F.F.]

Congrats Latvala & Anttila :up: :up:

It's about time to get another WRC winner to Finland :D

Really good job.

[dimviii]

Congrats to Sandel!!
unbelievable performance for him for all the sweden rally!

[Madeira]

Congratulations also for Malcom Wilson and his patience. He early understood that they had a talent in his hands like JM Latvala and play in the right moment...

[Bruno Portela]

Great result for Portugal: 7th and 8th in PWRC.

Armindo Araujo collecting important point for the championship chase.

Bernardo Sousa in his first PWRC and snow event, with a fantastic performance.

[Tom206wrc]

Also congratulations to Juha Hänninen who made no mistake during the entire rally and gets a driver point with his old GrN ;)

[Madeira]

Great result for Portugal: 7th and 8th in PWRC.

Armindo Araujo collecting important point for the championship chase.

Bernardo Sousa in his first PWRC and snow event, with a fantastic performance.

Yes, amazing result for the young driver Bernardo Sousa, for Portugal and of course for Madeira Island!!

[ProRally]

Also congratulations to Juha Hänninen who made no mistake during the entire rally and gets a driver point with his old GrN ;)

Lets hope his car is legal in post event scruteneering, last year he was cought out several times

I did pick him as winner in other thread...
Disappointed with Arai...

Lets see how Argentina will go

[Viking]

A rally were the youngsters made their mark!
J-M of cource, but also great pace from Mads (20) and Andreas (18) :up:
Andreas still has +3 years to take J-M`s record. :D

[Glee]

Who does score manu-points?


Jari-Matti LATVALA
Mikko HIRVONEN
Gigi GALLI
Petter SOLBERG
Dani SORDO
Toni GARDEMEISTER
Henning SOLBERG
Chris ATKINSON

Is this correct?

[Sulland]

To
Latvala for first win
Galli for good pace on the white stuff
Henning for very good pace and impressive recoveries, too bad with the bridge...
Petter for taking the blue car (with wrong shocks) to the finish
Mikkelsen for a very impressive Swedish debut
Mads for tremendous speed with the Sub
Gardemeister to get to the finish with a still data gathering Suzuki

Sorry for Wilson !!

PWRC
Hanninen for taking 8th total, and winning PWRC
Sandell for a real fight, first with Hanninen for the lead, then Prokop for the Bronze - Super Show, and fun to see that our neighbours are starting to come back !

A bit sorry for Brynildsen that lost some steam after a few early challenges, he will be back !

[pettersolberg29]

3 things:

1) Why are people so happy Sandell got third?
2) Latvala looks very good for his age.
3) But I think and hope Mikkelsen will beat his record of youngest ever WRC winner!

[ITC55]

A rally were the youngsters made their mark!
J-M of cource, but also great pace from Mads (20) and Andreas (18) :up:
Andreas still has +3 years to take J-M`s record. :D

A mature drive from Wilson too, i think mexico could be good for him, shame it had to end in retirement

[Wim_Impreza]

3 things:

1) Why are people so happy Sandell got third?
2) Latvala looks very good for his age.
3) But I think and hope Mikkelsen will beat his record of youngest ever WRC winner!

1) I am not happy, Prokop is more talented than Sandell but the Swedish driver had the best car.
2) Yes, he is definately a future world rally champion.
3) Me too, the future for Norway in rallying looks good.

[Tom206wrc]

3 things:

1) Why are people so happy Sandell got third?
...



It's not really for his 3rd place we are happy but rather especially for his entire performance on this rally for the first time in a 4WD car(like Prokop in fact)... :)

[Tom206wrc]

1) I am not happy, Prokop is more talented than Sandell but the Swedish driver had the best car.
...



Response of the typical jealous... :rolleyes:

[Wim_Impreza]

Response of the typical jealous... :rolleyes:

Not jealous, absolutely not. I am a fan from Czech drivers, like you are from Peugeot.

[Mirek]

No, it wasn't first Sandell's run in 4WD. He did at least one rally last year in Serbia with Evo 9. And Prokop drove some rallys with Octavia WRC in the past and with Evo 9 it was his 3rd rally (Acropolis and Walles 2007).

[Roy]

Wonderful event. Offcourse for me as Ford fan :D but more for me as rally fan. we saw a new winning driver... and what for one :eek: :bounce: Latvala is very good. No crashes this times ;) but mature drive. I saw the press conference on wrc.com and I saw a boy what was grow up!
Hirvonen and Sweden is not a gold combination. Great to see Galli on the podium too!

Ford, Latvala and Antilla congratulations!

Other stars in this rally what made this rally wonderful are Mikkelsen; very fast and Ostberg; outpaced Petter some times.

Sordo was not bad. Look at the time without the 5 min. penalty Great, great!
Wilson has either a good drive. Improved a a lot if we see at last year. Could be better, but was ok. Pitty he missed the last stages.

Shame for Henning and Loeb they had an off. I expected more of Henning.

[Josti]

3 things:

1) Why are people so happy Sandell got third?
2) Latvala looks very good for his age.
3) But I think and hope Mikkelsen will beat his record of youngest ever WRC winner!

1) That's mainly Tom :p :
2) He's been good for quite a while and this was a great rally for his first win. World Champion material of course. Old news.
3) Undoubtly, the guy shows great potential with his age.

[GigiGalliNo1]

huh? i have not followed this rally at all, cept hearing loeb retiring and me in joy and a win for latvala!!!!! Congrats!!! :D

[Tom206wrc]

]No, it wasn't first Sandell's run in 4WD. He did at least one rally last year in Serbia with Evo 9. And Prokop drove some rallys with Octavia WRC in the past and with Evo 9 it was his 3rd rally (Acropolis and Walles 2007).




And what was Sandell's result in the Lancer :confused:

[consti]

huh? i have not followed this rally at all, cept hearing loeb retiring and me in joy and a win for latvala!!!!! Congrats!!! :D
not mentioning galli?

[rp]

With that resourses behind, Mikkelsen has to beat Latvala´s record. He has the best possible mentor (Marcus) and the car and Andreas seems to be ok also as a person. Also Østberg showed that he may replace Petter in the future. So good things for the Norwegian rallying...

Great that rallying seems to go now into right direction also in Sweden. Andersson and Sandell are talanted drivers.

Of course Finnish drivers are there allways.. Hirvonen and Latvala can be on the top next 10-15 years and we have also Hänninen, Ketomaa and Alen. And also some other future stars...

[tmx]

i think sordo drove very well. 7min13sec behind, if minus the 5min penalty, he would be fighting with gigi for the podium. i had latvala for 1st place in the pickum so i wasn't surprised that he won. looks like citroen have to look at their engine. i would have think that sweden would cancel the whole rally liek they would have lat year due to environment problem. it look more like an ice/gravel rally more than snow.

[Mirek]

Tom: I think he was second but not sure...

[GigiGalliNo1]

oh congrats to galli too! :D 3rd position and many more to come, including higher spots :p

[Karbonyl]

Mirek: Martin ran his Lancer also at last year's Uddeholm. That was his debut with production car in world rally championship.

Tom206wrc: Patrik finished second in Serbia, but he had some turbo troubles, which cost him the gold podium. His start there and also all the rally was organised by... ...Interspeed! So here you can also find the roots of Patrik engage in JWRC 2008 :)

[Karbonyl]

Anyway... Thanks to all of you, who were interested in watching our result service http://www.vysledky-rally.cz.

I hope we'll meet during Mexico again ;)

[Mirek]

Karbonyl: Well, I forgot that unlucky start in Sweden last year...

[urabus-denoS2000]

And what was Sandell's result in the Lancer :confused:

He was secondhttp://www.automagazin.co.yu/slike/galerije/Patrik%20Sandell%20-%20Interspeed%20rally_20070910022706.jpg

[Helstar]

Congrats all, but from now things will change (except in NORF of course...).
Unless that engine problem will lead to severe problems for Citroen.

Latvala the winner!!
Hope his windows are thick enough.
LOL

A-Qassimi wins the Colins Crest award!!!
He jumped 36 meters,90 cm more than Merkensteijn and 1 meter more than Hirvonen
Merkensteijn ?! Which car ?

[urabus-denoS2000]

Merkensteijn ?! Which car ?


Focus WRC 06



http://www.rally-mania.cz/fotogalerie/330-47af159f9b533.jpg

[urabus-denoS2000]

The Final Ceremony

http://www.rally-mania.cz/fotogalerie/330-47af1662863a8.jpg

[urabus-denoS2000]

http://www.rally-mania.cz/img_novinky/N1s_47aede3d16be6.jpg


Van Merkeisteijn at the Colins Crest

[urabus-denoS2000]

http://www.rally-mania.cz/img_novinky/N2s_47aede3d1ba09.jpg

And Hirvonen

[AndyRAC]

Congratulations to Jari-Matti and Miikka. Well done!!! Also well done to Mikko and Gigi on their good drives. Same to Andreas, hard luck Matthew.
As a Brit have seen a lot of the youngsters here in UK when they first started; J-M, Matthew, Andreas. Two of them were obviously quick straight away, the other a slow burner. Interestingly I've mentioned the 2002 Cambrian before, well all 3 podium positions have had good weekends; Mikko now the WRChampionship leader, Jari-Matti youngest WRC event winner, and Andy Burton wiiner of yesterday's Wyedean in the Peugeot-Cosworth. We may moan sometimes, but what a great sport Rallying is!!

[janneppi]

Great to see Latvala getting a solid race, no squirrels inside the cabin air vent or co-driver Inexplicably bursting into flames. :D
Hirvonen needs to up his game if he want's to challenge Loeb this year.

[urabus-denoS2000]

Congratulations Jari-Matti,Hirvonen,Gigi and FORD!!!

[pentti]

Am I allowed to be big headed now?

[DonJippo]

Anyway... Thanks to all of you, who were interested in watching our result service www.vysledky-rally.cz (http://www.vysledky-rally.cz).

I hope we'll meet during Mexico again ;)

Thank's to you, saved my day on Friday when I was not able to listen rallyradio, keep up the good work :up:

[consti]

Am I allowed to be big headed now?

no it's five to six in the evening and it's sunday!

you are definetly not allowed to drink alcohol ;)

edit: oh and i thought big headed would mean hangover ... grrr

alcohol tomorrow i will meet you after more then 40 days....

[DonJippo]

Am I allowed to be big headed now?

Even bigger :confused:



:p :

1-2 for Pentti, not bad :up:

[A.F.F.]

Am I allowed to be big headed now?

By all means :up:

[ProRally]

Am I allowed to be big headed now?

Did we ever doubt ?

[bt52b]

Am I allowed to be big headed now?
Defintely, great win for JM.
:beer: :champion: :beer:

[pentti]

Actually we Finns should give a great thanks once again to Timo Jouhki. Without his help we would not had Juha Kankkunen,Tommi Makinen,Toni Gardemeister,Mikko or Jari-Matti

[Tomi]

A good day indeed for Finnish rally, 4 guys on points, also J-M's incredible drive was a good show of what we are going to see more of in the future, nice also to see that it was J-M who did brake Henkka's record, it did go to the right person, congrats to you too Pentti.
Galli also showed a good stable drive, the paisa must be happy :)

[A.F.F.]

Actually we Finns should give a great thanks once again to Timo Jouhki. Without his help we would not had Juha Kankkunen,Tommi Makinen,Toni Gardemeister,Mikko or Jari-Matti


Let's not forget Harri. Rally Sweden winner too. :)

[A.F.F.]

A good day indeed for Finnish rally, 4 guys on points, also J-M's incredible drive was a good show of what we are going to see more of in the future, nice also to see that it was J-M who did brake Henkka's record, it did go to the right person, congrats to you too Pentti.
Galli also showed a good stable drive, the paisa must be happy :)

Exactly. Juho Hänninen did not score only 10 PWRC points but one personal WRC point too :up:

[RS]

So, did Hirvonen really lift when he saw Loeb off, or was it just an excuse for being unable to match JML?

Guess we will find out in rallies to come..

[Tomi]

So, did Hirvonen really lift when he saw Loeb off, or was it just an excuse for being unable to match JML?

Guess we will find out in rallies to come..

He lifted for sure, but also he admit he did not have a chance against JM, even if he would have been trying, JM's time difference after the first day was too big already.

[Viking]

Off all you braggin Finns i like to listen to this one:
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=507489

"Jäkligt bra av Andreas"

okey they may pay him a little to say it but i dont care ;)

I also like the "VG" result list, where they has forgotten gr.N cars :D

[Tomi]

I also like the "VG" result list, where they has forgotten gr.N cars :D

Lol, the results sure seem to be a bit difficult to understand for VG motor journalists.

[ste898]

What a fantastic day for Ford (World Rally Champions 2006-7)

Well done to JML on 1st WRC win and Mikko also Giggi and a great points haul brought back here to Cumbria

FANTASTIC!!!!

[Helstar]

Am I allowed to be big headed now?
Definitively ! Promise us you are going to drive in RAC later this year with your pupils if they will win manu title and/or driver title... xD !

[COD]

Actually we Finns should give a great thanks once again to Timo Jouhki. Without his help we would not had Juha Kankkunen,Tommi Makinen,Toni Gardemeister,Mikko or Jari-Matti

Of course, Jouhki has done a great job. But on that route he has also done everything to block the way of drivers not under his umbrella, including Marcus.

[PLuto]

Another photos from Sweden: http://forum.autosport.cz/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=21&p=1611#p1611

http://www.autosport.cz/img/fotografie/c_493bb9df2369d204956ed524c4d4a58a.jpg

[jacko]

Actually we Finns should give a great thanks once again to Timo Jouhki. Without his help we would not had Juha Kankkunen,Tommi Makinen,Toni Gardemeister,Mikko or Jari-Matti
why is Toni Gardemeister on this list??

[jacko]

Of course, Jouhki has done a great job. But on that route he has also done everything to block the way of drivers not under his umbrella, including Marcus.

interesting, could this saying something about names like Paasonen, Laukanen and the fastest long time in group N Mr.Puhakka ?

[jacko]

To the rally; great stuff bu Latvala, very good and although he had showing fast speed, this is what everybody was hoping at Ford. He's now got extra confidence and i believe he could be a big thread on the comming gravel rounds for both Mikko and Sebastian. Sordo did a good job either and will be up there aswell on the next gravel rounds, Galli, 2 rounds already in the points and more important in Sweden he was showing also a very encouriging speed and will be a joker in the next rounds, this will be a more "open" championship than the previous 3 years! Hopefully Duval will found more money to step in this big fights also, not only on tarmac rounds which i believe he will going for gold. Subaru must bring the new car asap, till that time both drivers must collect as mony points as possible. Suzuki
s performance is not that bad, it's good to have them too.
All in all, very interseting and positive about this season after Sweden :)

[CABAIO E'LONA]

pics ;)

http://wrcrallynews.blogspot.com/

[pentti]

Let's not forget Harri. Rally Sweden winner too. :) Sorry. I was wrong not to name him as well.

[pentti]

Of course, Jouhki has done a great job. But on that route he has also done everything to block the way of drivers not under his umbrella, including Marcus.How can you block some one?

[Brother John]

At home after the rally of Sweden and in spite of that it was not a real winter rally, I had a great weekend with Pino, PuddleJumper and J4MIE.
Also we met several other forum members, such as Magnus, and.....forgive me I can not remember names! ;)
To all of you guys thanks for this weekend and it was nice to meet more rally freaks.
Meanwhile I have read this thread and it surprises me how much nonsense to read here. :dozey:
How much of you have already ever seen a wrc rally live? :eek:

[DonJippo]

Of course, Jouhki has done a great job. But on that route he has also done everything to block the way of drivers not under his umbrella, including Marcus.

Nonsense he has been doing his work and trying to get a seat for his drivers like any other manager is doing.

[ProRally]

At home after the rally of Sweden and in spite of that it was not a real winter rally, I had a great weekend with Pino, PuddleJumper and J4MIE.
Also we met several other forum members, such as Magnus, and.....forgive me I can not remember names! ;)
To all of you guys thanks for this weekend and it was nice to meet more rally freaks.
Meanwhile I have read this thread and it surprises me how much nonsense to read here. :dozey:
How much of you have already ever seen a wrc rally live? :eek:

Hi BJ, nice to hear you had a good time at Swedish

Me up to now about 70 WRC events...

[Viking]

Meanwhile I have read this thread and it surprises me how much nonsense to read here. :dozey:


Well some nonsense like always, but this time without so mutch of yours :D

[DonJippo]

Well some nonsense like always, but this time without so mutch of yours :D

:rotflmao: touché :p

[Brother John]

Well some nonsense like always, but this time without so mutch of yours :D

In fact there was more nonsense then usually. :p :
Some don´t see or kinder hide the truth instead of opening their eyes! That´s those who calling hard here on the forum, but if there really changes something in wrc and things not go such as they want! oooo boy.
It is easy to attack someone on a forum, you can have it your way, i don't care. I have enjoyed the rally and wait what will happen in the championship.

[Brother John]

Hi BJ, nice to hear you had a good time at Swedish

Me up to now about 70 WRC events...

That is much more than me ProRally, (ik ga nog maar 35 jaar) :D !

[COD]

he has been doing his work and trying to get a seat for his drivers like any other manager is doing.

Exactly, and that has included doing everything he can that drivers not under his management will not take the seats he wanted for his drivers... Management is dirty business and he has been very good at it

[Tomi]

How much of you have already ever seen a wrc rally live? :eek:

Do you seriously mean that WRC rally is real and not someting that happens only in the virtual world? :)

[Viktory]

Do you seriously mean that WRC rally is real and not someting that happens only in the virtual world? :)

All this talk of Virtual spectator has me confused now :p

[Brother John]

Do you seriously mean that WRC rally is real and not someting that happens only in the virtual world? :)

Was it not a real rally this weekend? Where have I been this weekend then? :eek: I have to ask Pino, what have we done this weekend? :D

[DonJippo]

Where have I been this weekend then? :eek: I have to ask Pino, what have we done this weekend? :D

Just watch day2 review, you were on TV on SS13 :D

[DonJippo]

Exactly, and that has included doing everything he can that drivers not under his management will not take the seats he wanted for his drivers... Management is dirty business and he has been very good at it

Sure it is dirty business but he ain't the only one capable of it, like you know for sure.

[jonkka]

Some recognition help, if you please:

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/motorsports/e/08wrc/photo/s/leg1_h01.jpg

Is Araujo in the pic?

Top row:
? in red shirt - ? light gray shirt - ? red fleece - ? white jacket - Al-Attiyah - Arai - ? young guy - Sousa (?) - Nittel - ? blue jacket - ? white shirt

Bottom row (going up and down)
Prokop (?) - ? blue fleece - ? guy with mobile phone - ? not very visible - Markkula - Hanninen - Axelsson - Sandell (with that look in his eyes) - Tomanek - Aigner - McNeall - Aksa or Mboi - Magalhaes (?) - ? in blue shirt - ? with text Sepa on shirt - Aksa or Mboi - ? white jacket - Wicha

[Jaanus]

Top row:
Martin Prpkop in red shirt - Martin Rauam light gray shirt

[jonkka]

Updated - Thanks Jaanus

Some recognition help, if you please:

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/motorsports/e/08wrc/photo/s/leg1_h01.jpg

Is Araujo in the pic?

Top row:
Prokop - Rauam - ? red fleece - ? white jacket - Al-Attiyah - Arai - ? young guy - Sousa (?) - Nittel - ? blue jacket - ? white shirt

Bottom row (going up and down)
? red fleece - ? blue fleece - ? guy with mobile phone - ? not very visible - Markkula - Hanninen - Axelsson - Sandell (with that look in his eyes) - Tomanek - Aigner - McNeall - Aksa or Mboi - Magalhaes (?) - ? in blue shirt - ? with text Sepa on shirt - Aksa or Mboi - ? white jacket - Wicha

[dimviii]

Araujo is 4th from the top row with the white jacket :)

[mdesign]

Updated - Thanks Jaanus

Some recognition help, if you please:

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/motorsports/e/08wrc/photo/s/leg1_h01.jpg

Is Araujo in the pic?

Top row:
Prokop - Rauam - ? red fleece - ? white jacket - Al-Attiyah - Arai - ? young guy - Sousa (?) - Nittel - ? blue jacket - ? white shirt

Bottom row (going up and down)
? red fleece - ? blue fleece - ? guy with mobile phone - ? not very visible - Markkula - Hanninen - Axelsson - Sandell (with that look in his eyes) - Tomanek - Aigner - McNeall - Aksa or Mboi - Magalhaes (?) - ? in blue shirt - ? with text Sepa on shirt - Aksa or Mboi - ? white jacket - Wicha
Yep, the portuguese guys are there!

[jonkka]

Araujo is 4th from the top row with the white jacket :)

Great, thanks! I assume his co-driver is the one with white jacket on bottom right corner?

[JCarlosPP]

Updated - Thanks Jaanus

Some recognition help, if you please:

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/motorsports/e/08wrc/photo/s/leg1_h01.jpg

Is Araujo in the pic?

Top row:
Prokop - Rauam - ? red fleece - [Araujo] - Al-Attiyah - Arai - ? young guy[Eyvind Brynildsen] - [Sousa] - Nittel - ? blue jacket - ? white shirt

Bottom row (going up and down)
? red fleece - ? blue fleece - ? guy with mobile phone - ? not very visible - Markkula - Hanninen - Axelsson - Sandell (with that look in his eyes) - Tomanek - Aigner - McNeall - Aksa or Mboi - [Magalhaes] - ? in blue shirt[Jussi Tiippana] - ? with text Sepa on shirt - Aksa or Mboi - [M. Ramalho] - Wicha

....

[COD]

Updated - Thanks Jaanus

Some recognition help, if you please:

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/motorsports/e/08wrc/photo/s/leg1_h01.jpg

Is Araujo in the pic?

Top row:
Prokop - Rauam - ? red fleece - ? white jacket - Al-Attiyah - Arai - ? young guy - Sousa (?) - Nittel - ? blue jacket - ? white shirt

Bottom row (going up and down)
? red fleece - ? blue fleece - ? guy with mobile phone - ? not very visible - Markkula - Hanninen - Axelsson - Sandell (with that look in his eyes) - Tomanek - Aigner - McNeall - Aksa or Mboi - Magalhaes (?) - ? in blue shirt - ? with text Sepa on shirt - Aksa or Mboi - ? white jacket - Wicha

Jari Ketomaa is with withe shirt on top row and Miika Teiskonen white shirt with Sepa text on bottom

[A.F.F.]

Jari Ketomaa is vetomies to the end :up:

He was fixing the notes as they crossed the finishline on last stage and wasn't happy that had to say on second run that stage :D

[pino]

Was it not a real rally this weekend? Where have I been this weekend then? :eek: I have to ask Pino, what have we done this weekend? :D

We've been somewhere in Sweden, in a cottage, playing great blues-music, drinking nice swedish beer...and eating the best pasta in the world ;) It was great, and I look forward to next year in Norway :D

[padWRC]

Please where can i find fotos from NATIONAL Swedish rally?

[Brother John]

Please where can i find fotos from NATIONAL Swedish rally?

National Swedish was annulated! :(

[Viking]

[quote="jonkka"]Some recognition help, if you please:

http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/motorsports/e/08wrc/photo/s/leg1_h01.jpg

Top row:
? in red shirt - ? light gray shirt - ? red fleece - ? white jacket - Al-Attiyah - Arai - ? young guy - Sousa (?) - Nittel - ? blue jacket - ? white shirt ]


"Young guy" behind Arai is Eivind Brynhildsen.

[J4MIE]

Got home last night and just about recovered!

I enjoyed the rally very much, but don't think we selected the best spots to watch apart from one stage on Saturday morning which was brilliant :up:

As usual the company was great, and was good to meet a few new forumers even if we did our best to avoid Magnus! Thanks to Pino for the excellent food, Brother John for driving us around without incident and fantastic music, and Jonathan for co-driving duties :up:

Norway next year has to be a definite :D :up:

[J4MIE]

Will post some photos later today after I have organised them all :)

[Brother John]

Will post some photos later today after I have organised them all :)

I can´t wait to see the photos. :cool: Put the fire on J4MIE, I´m hungry. :D Norway here I come!

[Roy]

I can´t wait to see the photos. :cool: Put the fire on J4MIE, I´m hungry. :D Norway here I come!

@ J4mie Yes pics!

@ Brother John I see you in Norway ;)

[J4MIE]

I can´t wait to see the photos. :cool: Put the fire on J4MIE, I´m hungry. :D Norway here I come!

Nah, I think fires are over-rated :rolleyes:

[Timole]

Just some thoughts which came to my mind. I enjoyed the rally very much, allthough there were a little snow. Gigi, Jarri and Henning were the stars for me in wrc, in group N Sandell and Juho were great.
I was some 100 m away from the spot where Loeb crashed out and the bad sight which i saw when i arrived to the seen was that there were lot of people who ran there but few helped out. It´s just sad. I understand that lot of people might not like Seb, but giving a hand to help him out would have been polite. Also i have to say that swedish people are very polite and nice. Can´t wait till the new rally sweden comes in 2010!

[PLuto]

Some photos from Sweden: HERE (http://forum.autosport.cz/viewtopic.php?f=24&p=1700#p1700): http://forum.autosport.cz/viewtopic.php?f=24&p=1700#p1700

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[Sami]

Greetings from Sweden again, it was my 12th time in a row..

The weather stole the show almost, and we decided to choose the northernmost stages to avoid cancellations.

We started from shakedown, which had a tricky S-corner right at the finnish. Some wide line was there to be wittnessed and afterwards the road conditions came worse so the fast part before that seemed really tricky. No one went off but some were close. I really liked the rally village + shakedown + SSS concept, but the weather was something the organizer couldn´t do anything to. On SSS1 we managed to witness a roll already as Semerad rolled his Mitsu on tightening right from inside.

We found really nice and tricky place from Bjälverud stage SS3, about 3kms from the start there was a blind left-right which seemed really promising and we had high expectations. It would be nice to see how the best drivers in the world could control their car in that "sumppu"-place which seemed really open entering it high speed but which turned behind the bank really tightly first to left and then to right slightly uphill and again to left over crest..

Show started well, Loeb went perfectly and really fast, but the Hirvonen as the second car hit the bank in the righthander ploughing the snowbank really bad. The car lifted its right front tyre high up the air bet Mikko controlled it amazingly and continued without timeloss. Third car was Atkinsson and he hit the same bank that threw the car around, hit a tree and got stuck in the snowbank in the last corner. It took a long time to lift him up as there was only about 10 people there to help and that place required really thorough warning as it was long sequence of corners where there was little room for braking. Chris wanted to throw in the towel as the car was really deep but I managed to speak some sense to him and he continued to try. After several minutes of work we could get him back on the road.

After atkinsson and Hirvonen took the snowbank (there was actually quite a lot of snow up there!) several drivers ended up in difficulties in that place, for example Merksteijn, Nittel, Ketomäki and Sauván haged spectacularly on the edge of the ditch lifting their tyres up almost rolling.

On the second run through Mikkelsen and again Merksteijn had difficult time there and Svedlund and Munster both ended up out where Atkinsson went and then to the other side ditch snowploughing 30metres in ditch. Both managed to come up quickly.

Really nice and action packed place there!

Then on saturday we went to our traditional place 2 kms before Colin´s lift, where there's always been some action. This year it was less, as there were some warning tapes there to guide the drivers to that blind tightening right. Svedlund and Sauv´n hit the bank quite deep but that's all. I would have liked to seen the national drivers drive that place in the dark, I'm sure there would have been some action.

On Sunday we went to see the classical Sordo - Stohl - Solberg - Prokop - Schie - Griazine - Brynildsen place on Ullen stage. On that corner the grip was good as it was completely gravel, but still my favourite driver Sauván rolled his Mitsu which ended up pretty bad shape after rolling over big rocks there.. Sauv´n was spectacular everywhere and had his own lines on all our places. Surprising that he managed to get so far!

The other round was cancelled so we went to Rämmen's last corner where Araujo went off last year. Now they had decided to but all the warning tapes left to that last corner so there was no action. No one could drive through the tapes if he weren´t blind!

The weather got worse and worse, too bad the rally wasn't held a week before. But still it was a good competiotion, and the fastest man definitely won.

Latvala drive´s nicely, uses big slides and is really confident. On Bjälverud it was nice to listen and compare him to other on the mountain side where we could hear the cars for several kilometres. Latvala went pretty much flat out that section, only couple of times braking and then immediately again on gas. The others were hesitating, and braking and accelerating braking again and accelerating again several times in one corner. Theoretically you should either accelerate maximum or brake maximum, otherwise you loose time. Latvala drove exactly like that!

Galli was also really promising and calm, controlling the race behind works Fords. Nice job. Also I´d like to mention Mikkelsen extremely mature drive and Östberg´s aggressive and spectacular approach. Both are really promising talents!

[A.F.F.]

Nice report there Sami :up:

I bet Östberg has been spectacular because what I saw from the footage, his driving was insane... and I do mean in a good way :)

[pino]

Greetings from Sweden again, it was my 12th time in a row..

The weather stole the show almost, and we decided to choose the northernmost stages to avoid cancellations.

We started from shakedown, which had a tricky S-corner right at the finnish. Some wide line was there to be wittnessed and afterwards the road conditions came worse so the fast part before that seemed really tricky. No one went off but some were close.



Sami, at the Shakedown, we first went to the hairpin, then walked back to the left turn before the S-corner and finally we moved to the same spot you were. Pity we didn't meet eachother, it would've been great :s mokin: Btw that spot was great but the corner before was also cool ;)

[Viking]

Nice report there Sami :up:

I bet Östberg has been spectacular because what I saw from the footage, his driving was insane... and I do mean in a good way :)


Some spectators gave him the nickname “Mads McRae” I hear after his totally different approach to the corners than the works Subarus.
And I like to think the real McRae, RIP, wouldn’t mind. :)

[WRXedUSA]

Well, that was my 5th Swedish rally. Probably the worst of them all.

We stayed in Brattfors, which was half the problem, as it was a hour drive to ever stage but Hörssjon. They simply need to move all the stages NORTH of Hagfors, or move the rally completely to say, Ljusdal or Ostersund, that knowing they are under pressure to compact the route. Organizers are quite stupid in this way.All the drivers did was complain.

Leg1:
Stensjön 1. Good corner, good access to the start line to see the cars up close and personal. Good ice, PG and Loeb stole the show. Not a long walk from parking area. Lots of stuck FWD cars in the lot though.

We bought a Gold pass to have dinner at the VIP box in Karlstad to see the SSS. What a waste. The food was horrible. View terrible and they cancelled the stage after half the GroupN cars went through. 1300sek 200dollars wasted. I commented to my freinds "geez, for 1300krona, I expect a belly dancer or swedish blonde to sit on my lap" Foggy, long drive back home.

Leg2
Horssjon 1. This stage was the most southerly, and the road was tore up before we got there. In fact, it was plain hot. I stood there in a t shirt for the stage until it was cancelled. Loeb was nuts fast. Mikkelsen looked great. As did Hainanen.

Hagfors 2. This was another good area, but the parking was a bit nasty. The road was tore up. The parking area was over the Ullen stage used the next day. The roads there wern't bad. We did hear the drivers complain about the Hagfors Sprint. Its funny to watch Italians and Catalans try to make fires in the swedish woods.

Leg 3.
Rämmen 1. We ran into Matthew Wilson, Gigi and Petter rotating tires right outside the entrance the the 3a spectator point. Phil was pissin out his morning coffee into the snow, and I had a chance to talk with Petter. He said "I have to take it slow not to take the tire off the wheel, just wait for the new car". I told him to keep his head up, and everyone is supporting him during these bad times.

The stage spectator area was great. Good sweeping corners. Interesting to see the different lines of Gigi, JM and Mikko through the same corners.

I was happy to see the result. JM Mikko and Gigi earned it.

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[Tomi]

good report again Sami, and thanks for the SMS too.

[Alink2]

Magazine has 48 pages on Sweden with results, comments, photos. Out today

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Paul
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