Translation:
Rally Sweden - step up to the big boys.
After securing a European championship for juniors in 2015, Emil Bergkvist and Joakim Sjoberg are now taking a big step up on their joint career ladder to the top. In collaboration with belgian J-Motorsport, the duo will participate in half a dozen rallies on the big WRC circus. The rallies will take place in the WRC2 class with a Citroen DS3 R5 and they will premiere in the car at their home Rally Sweden.
During the week, tests have been carried out before the start of the recce, and Emil quickly felt at home in the new car. "We tested for a day and I am very satisfied with the response we have received and the car feels fantastic to drive. We have been looking forward to this enormously and we can not thank everyone who helped make this possible enough."
The race is also the start of a new collaboration that has started to take shape in the tests. "J-Motorsport is a very professional team and our collaboration worked very well from the beginning. It's feels very good to be developing this further during the year" says Joakim Sjöberg.
"We know that we will be fighting with some of the best in the world and although we always strive to perform at maximum, the focus this week to gather experience and knowledge. Although we won't hide the fact that we look forward to compare our times against some of the best in the industry. "Emil's approach to Rally Sweden is clearly colored by the team's long-term goal, but if you believe that the duo only have the ambition to slowly roll through the event, one would think wrong, something that Emil clarifies. "It is neither my or Joakim's personality to do things half-way. We will not hold back but we probably will not be the ones who take the biggest risks, either. "
