Rally Sweden 2014

Hello all,

I have made a last-minute decision to go check out the first couple of days of Rally Sweden - I figure with 4 works teams this might be the best it gets at the sharp end for a little while - flights to Olso booked, hire car booked, will drive overnight on Tuesday to get to Rada by Wednesday morning. Figured I'd get the tickets when I got there, but I can find literally no information relating to the shakedown stage entry and ticketing details. Do I just need a stage/day pass as I would have for the other days? Or is it free or included in the Thursday price?

I've tried contacting the organisers to ask, but no reply as yet so I'm not entirely sure how much cash I need to bring.

Thanks for any info.

Is there any onboards for Rämmen on youtube?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dodge33cymru

Hello all,

I have made a last-minute decision to go check out the first couple of days of Rally Sweden - I figure with 4 works teams this might be the best it gets at the sharp end for a little while - flights to Olso booked, hire car booked, will drive overnight on Tuesday to get to Rada by Wednesday morning. Figured I'd get the tickets when I got there, but I can find literally no information relating to the shakedown stage entry and ticketing details. Do I just need a stage/day pass as I would have for the other days? Or is it free or included in the Thursday price?

I've tried contacting the organisers to ask, but no reply as yet so I'm not entirely sure how much cash I need to bring.

Thanks for any info.

---

I phoned the HQ 5 min ago and asked them. The rallypass is valid on all stages including shakedown. Yuo´d better stop and buy the pass and Rally Magazine on OKQ8 petrol stations on your way from Oslo to Råda. Depending on the route you choose, you can buy in Arvika, Årjäng, Sunne, Karlstad, Munkfors.

Enjoy your stay, mate!!

Do you know if the Rallypass can be bought in Norway, in Statoil petrol satations for instance?
Our intention is to drive from Oslo airport straight to Finnskogen.

Tickets in Norway on following spots:

Statoil Flisa
Statoil Elverum
Esso, Kirkenær
Autoservice, Solør
Shell, Vinger Hotell
Statoil, Langeland
Statoil, Arkoveien
KNA Kongsvinger
Esso, Skotterud
Statoil, Skarnes
Esso, Vormsund
Statoil E6, Berger
Statoil, Kjeller
Statoil E6, Furuset

(Copied from website)

Thanks for your fast answer. Had not seen this in the website.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Priorat

Thanks for your fast answer. Had not seen this in the website.

---

No problem. Glad to help. Have a god stay! :)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfiqrEwIYAA0Q0w.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfiqSZGIQAAL1aZ.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfipH0aIcAAV4xD.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfipsdlIQAAI6yn.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfihoLpIgAAeB8Z.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfifoaoIUAAI29K.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bfig3XqIIAAvi1d.jpg

Kirkenaer stage, pic posted by george donaldson.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfjBJ-UIgAAPsRc.jpg

Important message from the organisation staff. Due to the unusual mild winter and the fact that when the
subzero temperatures arrived the snow arrived at the same time meaning that the ice have not managed to
build making it very dangerous :bones: :bones: :bones: to walk/park/drive on the ices.

So stay away from the ices!!

http://translate.google.com/translate?s ... %3D5774346

Any info on live streaming from SVT on Thurs or Fri ?

There was good coverage last year including historics I seem to remember..

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Any info on live streaming from SVT on Thurs or Fri ?

There was good coverage last year including historics I seem to remember..

---

http://www.rallysweden.com/tavlingen/radio-tv/
http://www.svt.se/sport/sa-sander-svt-f ... ska-rallyt

The only liver coverage will be SS1 on Wednesday as well as well as Värmullsåsen 1 and 2 on Saturday.

Also this link ( maybe more uptodate?):

http://www.svt.se/sport/sa-sander-svt-f ... ska-rallyt

EDIT: Sorry didn´t catch your link until this was up.

Fredrik Gustavsson ?@F_Gustavsson 11 ?????
Like last year, Henning Solberg will drive @RallySweden in the car M-Sport have been using during the tests last weeks.

Hello.

Flying out from the UK tomorrow for what will be my tenth visit to Sweden, can't wait! Highlights I'm looking forward to this year are seeing the Hyundais for the first time, Latvala and Tanak's driving styles, Meeke and Kubica's debuts on snow (I like what I've seen of Kubica's test on youtube) and the Historics have some notable crews out too (Hakan Lindh - sideways!, Petter, Backlund, Svedlund and Blomqvist plus plenty of 240s). We'll be hopefully having a look at the Torsby stage on Wednesday, the road leading up to the quarry looks reasonable on google earth.

"Is that Blomqvist Quattro in the back?"

Going by the 'Lecab' stickers on the Quattro's trailer in the pic on page 10 I'd say that's Oscar Svedlund's car.

See you in the forests.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BleAivano

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Any info on live streaming from SVT on Thurs or Fri ?

There was good coverage last year including historics I seem to remember..

---

http://www.rallysweden.com/tavlingen/radio-tv/
http://www.svt.se/sport/sa-sander-svt-f ... ska-rallyt

The only liver coverage will be SS1 on Wednesday as well as well as Värmullsåsen 1 and 2 on Saturday.

---

Thanks.. just have to hope the service park stream is worth watching..

Looking at the pictures and reports from the recce, this edition will be a tyre-eater. Very little ice sole on the roads, so snow on top, and then directly down on the gravel!

Almost no snowbank to lean on, and very little ground-frost, it will be a strange winter rally in 2014, but then again there has been a strange winter, with more snow in places there should be none, and little snow in places we are used to meters!

thanks rallyper, I'm also informed by the organisers that you can buy entry to Shakedown for 200sek, which is handy.

Looking forward to it, but wish that I'd thought ahead a bit more and wasn't going back on Friday morning - I didn't realise that the historics only run Friday and Saturday!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dodge33cymru

thanks rallyper, I'm also informed by the organisers that you can buy entry to Shakedown for 200sek, which is handy.

Looking forward to it, but wish that I'd thought ahead a bit more and wasn't going back on Friday morning - I didn't realise that the historics only run Friday and Saturday!

---

Note that each stage costs 200 SEK if you don´t get a Day pass for 300 SEK, that makes 500 SEK, Rallypass is 499 SEK! You get a bargain of 1 SEK!! :D
Going back home on Friday without visiting any stages friday, makes it break even...

Kristian Sohlberg test movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlSl8MuCEnk

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by giù tutto!

Strange, I thought that Sohlberg and Flythstrom were helping Nikara to build up career, but now they are participating to the rally and Nikara is sitting at home. I rather would like to see Nikara behind the wheel of that R5.

---

+1

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dimviii

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfiqrEwIYAA0Q0w.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfiqSZGIQAAL1aZ.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfipH0aIcAAV4xD.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfipsdlIQAAI6yn.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfihoLpIgAAeB8Z.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfifoaoIUAAI29K.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bfig3XqIIAAvi1d.jpg

---

Going by those pictures Meeke, Latvala and Mikklesen have a great advantage...:)

I think the tyre budget is so high they didn´t afford having full sets for all cars... :D :D

Khalid testing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohZvbDCppso

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bfjlyj4IcAA5rBC.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bfjmdm8IAAENR3X.jpg

Kubica during recce. Already some gravel coming through. From @OfficialWRC
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfkFn8ICAAA1_tm.jpg

Does anyone know where in the field Petter will start in the historics? As one of the last ones like last year i guess...
Official start list will be posted after the SSS on wednesday.

Someone asked for inboard of Rämmen. They take a right at the junction at 13:10 this year before the last 1.5km with a small jump.
http://rallyvidea.blog.cz/0803/j-semera ... 20-onboard

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dimviii

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bfjlyj4IcAA5rBC.jpg

---

Nice looking livery. Got any more pics?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfjldZ0IgAAAmzM.jpg

Thanks. I like it :) I did not know Arabs were so much into burgers though :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by giù tutto!

Strange, I thought that Sohlberg and Flythstrom were helping Nikara to build up career, but now they are participating to the rally and Nikara is sitting at home. I rather would like to see Nikara behind the wheel of that R5.

---

Unfortunately that´s the name of the game. Flyhström is one of the "managers" behind Finnish Motorsport Academy (Nikara and some other drivers) and of course there should be Nikara driving that Fiesta R5 and not Sohlberg, whose last WRC event was almost seven years ago. If Nikara would be driving also in Sweden it would look ok, but now it´s a weird situation...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by rp

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by giù tutto!

Strange, I thought that Sohlberg and Flythstrom were helping Nikara to build up career, but now they are participating to the rally and Nikara is sitting at home. I rather would like to see Nikara behind the wheel of that R5.

---

Unfortunately that´s the name of the game. Flyhström is one of the "managers" behind Finnish Motorsport Academy (Nikara and some other drivers) and of course there should be Nikara driving that Fiesta R5 and not Sohlberg, whose last WRC event was almost seven years ago. If Nikara would be driving also in Sweden it would look ok, but now it´s a weird situation...

---

Truly +1

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by rp

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by giù tutto!

Strange, I thought that Sohlberg and Flythstrom were helping Nikara to build up career, but now they are participating to the rally and Nikara is sitting at home. I rather would like to see Nikara behind the wheel of that R5.

---

Unfortunately that´s the name of the game. Flyhström is one of the "managers" behind Finnish Motorsport Academy (Nikara and some other drivers) and of course there should be Nikara driving that Fiesta R5 and not Sohlberg, whose last WRC event was almost seven years ago. If Nikara would be driving also in Sweden it would look ok, but now it´s a weird situation...

---

+10 :D

Colin Clark and Co talked about the drivers just running through the obligated SD without pushing in order to save tires... :(

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rallyper

Colin Clark and Co talked about the drivers just running through the obligated SD without pushing in order to save tires... :(

---

:( But is understandable when you look at the conditions: From Fredrik Gustavsson's twitter:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfocxAuIAAAfuyU.jpg

The weather forecast does not look promising either. Hardly any subzero temperatures for the remainder
of the week and there is even risk of rain during the night between Thursday and Friday.

http://www.smhi.se/vadret/vadret-i-sver ... rect=false
http://www.svt.se/vader/sverigeprognos
http://www.yr.no/sted/Sverige/V%C3%A4rm ... arsel.html

So what is the best strategy for tyre choice / road position- First with studs or last with normal gravel softs / hards? I don't recall what has been effective in these circumstances before.

Also has Brynildsen pulled his entry?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

So what is the best strategy for tyre choice / road position- First with studs or last with normal gravel softs / hards? I don't recall what has been effective in these circumstances before.

Also has Brynildsen pulled his entry?

---

You will need your studs, for sure! :smokin:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

So what is the best strategy for tyre choice / road position- First with studs or last with normal gravel softs / hards? I don't recall what has been effective in these circumstances before.

Also has Brynildsen pulled his entry?

---

No gravel tyres allowed in my opinion. You need the studs anyway.

Short interview with Robert ahead of rally Sweden:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuVLYNO7Dnk

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Mintexmemory

So what is the best strategy for tyre choice / road position- First with studs or last with normal gravel softs / hards? I don't recall what has been effective in these circumstances before.

Also has Brynildsen pulled his entry?

---

and you can´t choose your starting position, thursday in championship order (Ogier,Meeke,Latvala...) and friday/saturday P1/P2 in reverse order.

Brynilldsen is not starting (no money = no car)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...27476431_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.n...95752100_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...81215713_n.jpg
https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/...99580312_n.jpg