WRC..Rally Sweden, With Spoilers.

[CastrolCraig.]

leob fastest in shakedown, kimi tenth, 5.9 seconds slower over the stage, but ahead of wilson and only just behing henning solberg.

Leading shakedown times:

1. Sebastien Loeb Citroen Total WRT C4 WRC 1min 53.4secs
2. Dani Sordo Citroen Total WRT C4 WRC 1min 54.8secs
3. Jari-Matti Latvala BP Ford Abu Dhabi Focus WRC 1min 55.8secs
4. Mikko Hirvonen BP Ford Abu Dhabi Focus WRC 1min 56.0secs
5. Marcus Gronholm Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 1min 56.2secs
6. Petter Solberg PSWRT Citroen C4 WRC 1min 56.3secs
7. Sebastien Ogier Citroen Junior Team C4 WRC 1min 57.4secs
8. Henning Solberg Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 1min 57.6secs
9. Mads Ostberg Adapta AS Subaru Impreza WRC 1min 59.0secs
10. Kimi Raikkonen Citroen Junior Team C4 WRC 1min 59.3secs
11. Matthew Wilson Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 1min 59.4secs
12. Khalid Al Qassimi BP Ford Abu Dhabi Focus RS WRC 2mins 00.8secs



http://www.crash.net/world+rally/news/156736/1/loe...


ruddy impressive if you ask me!

[R1 GTR]

Citroen on top again?

Come on Ford!

Nice to see Petter up there again too.

[Allyc85]

Fair effort by Kimi, cant wait to see how he gets on with the proper stages starting with tonights Super Special

[anonymous-user]

Shakedown times mean nothing, the trick is to make sure you don't bin the car while checking the systems out. Kimi had a crash on the road section.

[CastrolCraig.]

johnfelstead said:

Shakedown times mean nothing, the trick is to make sure you don't bin the car while checking the systems out. Kimi had a crash on the road section.

well, actually, he turned to late for a road junction and another car knocked his evo.

[Curry Burns]

Gronholm?

Didn't know he was back...

[stephen300o]

Curry Burns said:

Gronholm?

Didn't know he was back...

Back for some favourite rallies for fun, but great to have him about, a fun guy.

[hullbilly]

stephen300o said:

Curry Burns said:

Gronholm?

Didn't know he was back...

Back for some favourite rallies for fun, but great to have him about, a fun guy.

going very well for a 'retired' rally driver.

Kimi is going pretty cautious, think he is concentrating on finishing the rally.

[CastrolCraig.]

hullbilly said:

stephen300o said:

Curry Burns said:

Gronholm?

Didn't know he was back...

Back for some favourite rallies for fun, but great to have him about, a fun guy.

going very well for a 'retired' rally driver.

Kimi is going pretty cautious, think he is concentrating on finishing the rally.

kimi was held up behind a damaged car for nearly the entire 1st stage.

[hullbilly]

CastrolCraig. said:

kimi was held up behind a damaged car for nearly the entire 1st stage.

Yes he was held up behind Khalid Al Qassimi, who is always known to be a fair and honest driver......

[TJD2003]

Mikko takes lead on stage 5

Oh and the happy one reaches the top ten.

Pos No Driver Time Diff Next Diff 1st
1. 3 Mikko HIRVONEN M 45:35.0 0.0 0.0
2. 2 Dani SORDO M 45:41.3 +6.3 +6.3
3. 1 Sébastien LOEB M 45:41.7 +0.4 +6.7
4. 4 Jari-Matti LATVALA M 46:03.0 +21.3 +28.0
5. 7 Sébastien OGIER M 46:22.2 +19.2 +47.2
6. 5 Marcus GRÖNHOLM M 46:41.0 +18.8 +1:06.0
7. 6 Henning SOLBERG M 46:52.3 +11.3 +1:17.3
8. 12 Matthew WILSON 47:51.8 +59.5 +2:16.8
9. 15 Mads ÖSTBERG 48:11.7 +19.9 +2:36.7
10. 8 Kimi RÄIKKÖNEN M 48:28.7 +17.0 +2:53.7

[stephen300o]

What happened to P Solberg? and is Kenneth doing this one?

Edited by stephen300o on Friday 12th February 20:17

[Bob Fossil]

Raikkonen stopped in S6...

[stephen300o]

Something happened to Marcus too.

[EDLT]

Is there anywhere to watch this online, I don't fancy waiting for the 20 minutes of "something about some cars, I think?" on Dave.

Edited by EDLT on Friday 12th February 14:56

[stephen300o]

EDLT said:

Is there anywhere to watch this online, I don't fancy waiting for the 20 minutes of "something about some cars, I think?" on Dave.

Edited by EDLT on Friday 12th February 14:56

Motors are doing quite a lot of coverage tomorrow if I remember correctly, only Loeb left by then though.

[TJD2003]

Peter went off then drove into wilson

Gronholm electrical probs.

Happy one crashed and broke I think.

Motors TV doing it and prob eurosport but not sure.

TJ

[MonkeyHanger]

The first MotorsTV WRC highlights show is at 10:20 tonight

[mugs]

Just watching this on Motors now, pretty hectic stuff all around, shame what happened to Kimi though, seemed innocuous enough but lost bags of time over it - I notice there was a film crew there to catch it all but no supporters?!?

[Scooby_snax]

mugs said:

Just watching this on Motors now, pretty hectic stuff all around, shame what happened to Kimi though, seemed innocuous enough but lost bags of time over it - I notice there was a film crew there to catch it all but no supporters?!?

yes their helicopter landed in a field next to where kimi came off