The official Uddeholm Swedish Rally Thread

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.

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Originally Posted by 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!

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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.

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

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Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze

]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).

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

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Originally Posted by 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

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not mentioning galli?

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...

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.

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

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

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 :)