Swedish rallying championship news

[BleAivano]

Tragedy has stricken once again.

A 19 year old woman was killed in an accident at Skänningeknixen rally in Skänninge.
I don't know much about the accident more then that the car somehow lifted onto two wheels and hit a couple of spectators.
Hard to know but I think they might have been standing at an improper place.

http://www.corren.se/ostergotland/mj...2-artikel.aspx


I was at another Rally all day today at the Aprilsprinten rally sprint where there was a serious accident where a car was flipped up onto two wheels
and while being brought back down to four wheels driver struggled to maintain control and eventually spun and slide into a large stone which
it hit with the co-driver side. IIRC roll cage damaged, door and the door frame was ripped off and also large damage to the roof at the co-driver side.

Co-driver was stuck and fire fighters had to work quite long (maybe 20-30 min) to get her free. The official report said that she was fully conscious and
was brought to hospital for observation. However I overheard a discussion between a group of people, who were standing next to me, and
someone they knew who knew the couple that was involved in the accident. According to this discussion the co-driver suffered a puncture lung
but no other serious injuries.


As for the rest of the sprint rally, 140 entrants doing 3x2 laps each starting with 30-40 seconds interval with "floating start"*. Which worked very well.
Sunny weather for the first hour and half then more and more clouds and colder and colder temperature. It was almost freezing cold towards the end so
I left about slightly after halfway through the final round. The weather made it not worth staying for the final 30-40 cars.


Some good driving, one driver who managed to rip off a wheel, one driver who managed to roll his golf, allot of engine/gear box failures.
As usual, huge amount of Volvo 200 and 900-series rally cars. Did allot of filming so it might be available within the next few days.

*manual waving flag signalled start used in relation to position of previous starter.

[janvanvurpa]

Tragedy has stricken once again.

A 19 year old woman was killed in an accident at Skänningeknixen rally in Skänninge.
I don't know much about the accident more then that the car somehow lifted onto two wheels and hit a couple of spectators.
Hard to know but I think they might have been standing at an improper place.

http://www.corren.se/ostergotland/mj...2-artikel.aspx


I was at another Rally all day today at the Aprilsprinten rally sprint where there was a serious accident where a car was flipped up onto two wheels
and while being brought back down to four wheels driver struggled to maintain control and eventually spun and slide into a large stone which
it hit with the co-driver side. IIRC roll cage damaged, door and the door frame was ripped off and also large damage to the roof at the co-driver side.

Co-driver was stuck and fire fighters had to work quite long (maybe 20-30 min) to get her free. The official report said that she was fully conscious and
was brought to hospital for observation. However I overheard a discussion between a group of people, who were standing next to me, and
someone they knew who knew the couple that was involved in the accident. According to this discussion the co-driver suffered a puncture lung
but no other serious injuries.


As for the rest of the sprint rally, 140 entrants doing 3x2 laps each starting with 30-40 seconds interval with "floating start"*. Which worked very well.
Sunny weather for the first hour and half then more and more clouds and colder and colder temperature. It was almost freezing cold towards the end so
I left about slightly after halfway through the final round. The weather made it not worth staying for the final 30-40 cars.


Some good driving, one driver who managed to rip off a wheel, one driver who managed to roll his golf, allot of engine/gear box failures.
As usual, huge amount of Volvo 200 and 900-series rally cars. Did allot of filming so it might be available within the next few days.

*manual waving flag signalled start used in relation to position of previous starter.

Sad news...Poor girl. Poor driver.


You should come over to the No1 Volvo rally site in America with your vids..

(well its No1..Serious......Oh okej, there aren't any others... Still we're it..
www.rallyanarchy.com

[Rallyper]

Coming weekend 4th round of SRC will start in Linköping. 92 crews will start in the East Sweden Rally with Norwegian Frank Tore Larsen and swede Jerker Axelsson as favourites.

http://rallysm.se/tavlingar/2014-09-...t-sweden-rally

[Rallyper]

Mats Jonsson won this weekends round of SRC. Main contender Jerker Axelsson went off road today when only thing he had to do was to finish the round to become champion in 4WD class. Jerker had to bring a Mitsu Evo9 when his S10 Subaru wasn´t able to be driven.

Now the championship will be battled out in the last round in Rally Uppsala 3-4th of October.

[VFTS]

Mats Jonsson won this weekends round of SRC. Main contender Jerker Axelsson went off road today when only thing he had to do was to finish the round to become champion in 4WD class. Jerker had to bring a Mitsu Evo9 when his S10 Subaru wasn´t able to be driven.

Now the championship will be battled out in the last round in Rally Uppsala 3-4th of October.

Jerker started with an Evo10 R4.

[Rallyper]

yepp, my bad.

[Micke_VOC]

Some nice photos from the event:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...8600514&type=1

[janvanvurpa]

Mats Jonsson won this weekends round of SRC. Main contender Jerker Axelsson went off road today when only thing he had to do was to finish the round to become champion in 4WD class. Jerker had to bring a Mitsu Evo9 when his S10 Subaru wasn´t able to be driven.

Now the championship will be battled out in the last round in Rally Uppsala 3-4th of October.

Pelle, is that hemmatrakten for you? Where are you anyway exactly (I'm betting I've been there)

And I am confused..
Klassen SM "trmmat 2wd" seem to be some very strange cars at the top...Toyota, Suzuki, Citra?

First nice car down in 6th??? Johansson i 240 Volvo... Can you tell us about those Toyotas and Susuki and Citroen--What cars? what spec?
You going to Finalen?

Take piccies.

[Rallyper]

Pelle, is that hemmatrakten for you? Where are you anyway exactly (I'm betting I've been there)

And I am confused..
Klassen SM "trmmat 2wd" seem to be some very strange cars at the top...Toyota, Suzuki, Citra?

First nice car down in 6th??? Johansson i 240 Volvo... Can you tell us about those Toyotas and Susuki and Citroen--What cars? what spec?
You going to Finalen?

Take piccies.

How did you know my nickname is Pelle? You´re a swedish language genius aren´t you? Bring you some pics from earlier this summer from SRC.

http://rallybild.se/gallerier/2014/s...rallyt2014.php

And yes- it´s in my neighbourhood Rally Uppsala coming last round of SRC. I´m from a place called Östhammar 70 K east of Uppsala at the swdish coast of Baltic Sea also called Roslagen. Have you been here?

[Micke_VOC]

And I am confused..
Klassen SM "trmmat 2wd" seem to be some very strange cars at the top...Toyota, Suzuki, Citra?

First nice car down in 6th??? Johansson i 240 Volvo... Can you tell us about those Toyotas and Susuki and Citroen--What cars? what spec?
You going to Finalen?

Take piccies.

The Toyota are a swedish-build "kitcar" from Asterhag ( Toyota Team Sweden) build in the late 90´s...
-> http://www.pontustidemand.se//wp-con...76242252_n.jpg

The others are a Suzuki Swift S1600 and the Citroen are a DS3 R3T