Rally Sweden 2014

Go Kruuda! Go Printsport Racing!
Kruuda's car is ex-Lappi FRC car.

Proud to be Norwegian today, 2, 3 and 7th!
Congratulation to all 3 drivers and Codrivers.

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Originally Posted by wurc

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Originally Posted by mm1

Mads might have lost the 2nd place because of the F1 driver.

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just imagine that this is last SS and there's a special mechanism that shows split times to the other driver, and imagine that mikkelsen could choose mads 'screaming like a baby if someone is blocking me for a moment' ostberg split times to control his own pace to safely reach the end ? :) or is it out of your imagination ? ;)

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Have seen all your other posts on this thread, so don't see a reason to argue with you.

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Originally Posted by MikeD

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Originally Posted by N.O.T

Very nice win by Latvala... new leader in the championship... lets see how VW will handle this and how Latvala will handle rest of the season.

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Yes quite likely. I think Latvalas performance in Mexico will show a lot if he fails once more then he will be Ogiers lap dog... but Ogier is no Loeb when it comes to consistency only when it comes to speed... so it will be far more exciting.

The main thing is that as expected VW has no rival this year so i think they will let them be involved in a dog fight...which is good for us.

And if Latvala delivers a challenge he might bring some finish fans back from their caves and then i can play with them once more....ooooh the nostalgia.

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Originally Posted by Sulland

Proud to be Norwegian today, 2, 3 and 7th!
Congratulation to all 3 drivers and Codrivers.

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Yeah a decent day for you. And add to Sweden Rally a handful of medals grabbed in Sotchi.

What is standing in championship?

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Mikkelsen
Citroen (stronger this year than expected)
Tänak
Solberg
Tidemand
Breen
Kruuda

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Hyundai
Kubica (I´m worrying if he´s really able to cope in WRC)

bad luck:
Evans
Prokop (second retirement in a row)
Grondal

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Originally Posted by mm1

Mads might have lost the 2nd place because of the F1 driver.

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Well, I'm not sure who to blame for that, but anyway Mads did't slow much the second time.
Passing car on the road with spectators around it with such a high speed is plain stupid.
Somehow I see this Norwegian in different way now.

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Originally Posted by Moriarty

What is standing in championship?

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Latvala 40pts
Ogier 35
Ostberg 30
Mikkelsen 24
Bouffier 18
Meeke 17
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Overall has been an interesting event, some new/returning names and an unusual leaderboard!

Positives:
Great result for Jari Matti, he seemed lost in first day but finally fought back won it. Hope this boost his confidence for rest of the season
Andreas is fast, I hope he will mix with the big boys this year
Tanak was a big surprise
Mads also is quite ok, found it easily after the first and was on the pace after first day but too late for 1st/2nd
Ogier does mistakes and he fully accepts the blame!! Really liked his attitude here
Henning's end of stage interviews

Negatives:
Kubica's many errors. I was not expecting much more with pace but why so many errors????
Mikko's pace should have been better
Tidemand, have shown nothing
Hyundais. I believe suspension parts are way too weak
Yazeed throwing away RC2 victory
TV coverage, just not working for me. Prefer listening to radio, gives a better vibe of the event