I have had an interest in Automotive and Motorsport-related stuff since the late nineties, but I would consider myself a bit of a latecomer to Rallying. It wasn’t until 2006 that I got my first taste of stage rallying and that event was the South of England Tempest rally based in the Aldershot region.
Over the history of the World Rally Championships, whenever The Swedish has followed The Monte, the driver leading the Championships heading into the Winter Rally would be the first car on the road.
The second day of Rally Sweden reconvened for another full day of action out on the snow and ice in sub-zero temperatures. The day featured 6 stages which began with a 10km technical sprint through Brattby.
After more than 50 years of rallying moments, Rally Sweden bidded farewell to Värmland and headed North for the second round of the 2022 FIA World Rally Championships at its new home of Umeå. Since the start of the WRC back in 1973, Rally Sweden has been based in the Värmland region, however, in recent years, more specifically the 2020 event, the climate has changed in the region around February.
When one sits back and considers the build-up to the 2022 Monte Carlo Rally and the first step into the new generation of Hybrid Rally cars, deep down we all kinda knew that the Puma offering from M-Sport Ford was always going to be a good package, didn’t we?
Ahead of the second round of the 2022 FIA World Rally Championship, Rally Sweden (24th-27th Feb), registration for the event closed today (25th) and the organisers previewed the provisional entrants.
At the end of the third day of the competition, Sébastien Ogier was heading into the final day of the event with a 21.1 second lead over Loeb and was on the brink of his 9th Monte Victory.
