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FIA World Rally Championship Sweden - Day Three

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FIA World Rally Championship Sweden - Day Two

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Mikka Anttila, Daniel Elena, Sebastien Loeb, Staffan Parmander, Petter

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FIA World Rally Championship Sweden - Day One

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Mikka Anttila, Petter, Chris Patterson, Armindo Araujo, Miguel Ramalho

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FIA World Rally Championship Monte-Carlo - Day One

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Daniel Elena, Sebastien Loeb, Nicolas Gilsoul, Thierry Neuville, Petter

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Ford Fiesta WRC Wins Rally Sweden

By LLoschiavoMakofski on | From blog.roadandtrack.com

Even with studded tires it’s tough driving in the only all-snow rally in the WRC unless you’re Scandinavian. Just ask eight-times WRC champ Sebastien Loeb who went off in the snow on the first day, but eventually finished in sixth place overall. Ironically Loeb is the only non-Scandinavian to have ever won the Swedish Rally back in 2004. Ford’s Finnish factory driver Jari-Matti Latvala took the victory in the Ford WRT Fiesta RS WRC with a margin of 16.6 seconds over Mikko Hirvonen in the...Read Full Story

WRC Round Two: Rally Sweden Results and Videos

By wheels4 on | From carscoop.blogspot.com

The second round of the 2012 World Rally Championship after the opening race at Monte Carlo is the only event held on snow, which means that making predictions about the outcome of Rally Sweden is almost impossible. In tests carried out before the race, some teams experienced freezing temperatures and most expected heavy snowfall during the event. However, during the race, there was much less snow than initially anticipated – and that was a game changer for most teams. Citroen ’s new signing...Read Full Story

HIRVONEN’S FIRST PODIUM FINISH WITH CITROËN

By touco57 on | From motoringdreams.blogspot.com

Hirvonen and Lehtinen achieve their first podium finish for Citroën Total World Rally Team Loeb and Elena take maximum points on the Power Stage Citroën Total World Rally Team maintains the lead in the manufacturers’ standings Loeb and Hirvonen top the drivers standings With clear gaps already established between the frontrunners, the third and final day of Rally Sweden saw no changes at the top of the overall standings. Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen ended their second rally...Read Full Story

Latvala takes clear lead in Rally Sweden

By Cartman on | From yourtrackpass.com

After eight more challenging stages Jari-Matti Latvala seems headed for his second Rally Sweden victory in the FIA World Rally Championship . The Finn tussled with fellow countryman Mikko Hirvonen for much of Friday before Latvala’s Ford Fiesta was able to secure a solid gap over his Citroen rival. The second leg ran today saw these two trade fastest times but in the end Latvala managed to pull out a solid 23 second lead with four of the eight stage wins. Hirvonen took two stages for himself...Read Full Story

That`s Just Greedy: Citroen Total World Rally Team

By wonderm on | From covercars.com

Not only has the Citroen Total World Rally Team got eight times world champion Sebastien Loeb and Co-driver Daniel Elena driving for them but they have also just poached Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen from Ford`s World Rally team for 2012. It`s been a great start to the year for the French team with Loeb and Elena winning the opening Monte Carlo Rally and now the newbies winning the warm-up Finnskog Rally in Norway. The second points-worthy WRC race is in Sweden this weekend and with...Read Full Story

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Latvala hangs on for victory in Sweden

Jari-Matti Latvala belatedly got his World Rally Championship challenge under way as he held on to win Rally Sweden. The 26-year-old Finn had an advantage of more than 30 seconds over compatriot Mikko Hirvonen's Citroen at one point in Sunday's final stage ...

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