The offical Sweden Rally Thread 2015***

[Pwig]

3 live stages this weekend

[Allyc85]

Photographer injured in a crash on shakedown earlier, condition described as stable.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117661

Edit: Just read there are no serious injuries, just taken to hospital for checks

Edited by Allyc85 on Thursday 12th February 15:58

[Pwig]

Perhaps it was his ultra protective 'force field' Photographers bib that saved him?

[Allyc85]

Or some invincibility tape? Not that many stand behind that!

WRC - Shakedown Rally Sweden 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNWvSrsUFw

[Allyc85]

Pontus Tidemand fastest on the superspecial in his RRC Fiesta! Expect him not to be there by the end off SS2 though!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117671

[iva cosworth]

Sorry,who ?

Did all the seeded WRC drivers phone in sick ?......

[Skylinecrazy]

He's a brilliant young driver. WRC for the future I'm sure.

[GravelBen]

Helped a bit by road conditions by the sound of it, but full credit all the same!

[Pwig]

Interesting things been happening this morning,

Latvala dropped off then came back again.

And Kubica hasn't crashed yet

Pos Car No Driver Eligibility Time Diff Prev Diff 1st

1. 1 FRAS. OGIER M 36:40.6
2. 2 FINJ. LATVALA M 36:49.7 +9.1 +9.1
3. 9 NORA. MIKKELSEN T 37:00.2 +10.5 +19.6
4. 4 NORM. OSTBERG M 37:02.6 +2.4 +22.0
5. 7 BELT. NEUVILLE M 37:17.4 +14.8 +36.8
6. 3 GBRK. MEEKE M 37:34.6 +17.2 +54.0
7. 5 GBRE. EVANS M 37:42.1 +7.5 +1:01.5
8. 6 ESTO. TANAK M 37:45.1 +3.0 +1:04.5
9. 16 POLR. KUBICA 37:50.3 +5.2 +1:09.7
10. 21 CZEM. PROKOP T 38:06.1 +15.8 +1:25.5
11. 8 NZLH. PADDON T 38:12.0 +5.9 +1:31.4
12. 14 NORH. SOLBERG 38:14.0 +2.0 +1:33.4
13. 17 UKRY. PROTASOV 38:30.9 +16.9 +1:50.3
14. 37 ITAL. BERTELLI T 43:16.4 +4:45.5 +6:35.8

[Pwig]

That's after SS4, and it looks like it's the Ogier and Latvala show again.

[Pwig]

Ogier has had wiper failure, lead down to 3.3 seconds overall!

[Pwig]

SS6 Kirkenær 2 (7.07 km)


Overall


Pos Car No Driver Eligibility Time Diff Prev Diff 1st

1. 1 FRAS. OGIER M 42:23.0
2. 2 FINJ. LATVALA M 42:26.3 +3.3 +3.3
3. 9 NORA. MIKKELSEN T 42:38.7 +12.4 +15.7
4. 4 NORM. OSTBERG M 42:43.3 +4.6 +20.3
5. 7 BELT. NEUVILLE M 42:55.1 +11.8 +32.1
6. 3 GBRK. MEEKE M 43:14.5 +19.4 +51.5
7. 5 GBRE. EVANS M 43:26.1 +11.6 +1:03.1
8. 21 CZEM. PROKOP T 43:50.0 +23.9 +1:27.0
9. 14 NORH. SOLBERG 44:03.3 +13.3 +1:40.3
10. 17 UKRY. PROTASOV 44:05.3 +2.0 +1:42.3

[BaronVonVaderham]

Is there any kind of live radio commentary or similar for this?

[Pwig]

Link to wrc radio at the bottom of the page

http://www.wrc.com/en/

[BaronVonVaderham]

http://www.autosport.com/rallying/wrc-radio-live/

[BaronVonVaderham]

Taa!

[Skylinecrazy]

Kris Meeke's gone off again...

[Allyc85]

Spun and continued, looks like plenty of other drivers have been making mistakes too.

VW just look too fast, even when sweeping the road for the others behind!

edit: Just looked at stage 8 and indeed Meeke has lost tonnes of time..

[Skylinecrazy]

He's down to about 13th I think. Long way to go though.

[Allyc85]

Mikkelsen leads! Latvala has gone off, Ogier hit a snow bank!