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Ostberg remains leader in Rally Sweden

Mads Ostberg (Stobart Ford) continues as leader of the Sweden Rally, but Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) shortened differences to place 14.8 seconds.

Stobart driver ended up losing some time at the end of day when he found in the sections with poor visibility in Lovhaugen.

"It has been a nightmare without lights and the thing supposed he would light is blocking the view." "I tried to push but I couldn't see absolutely nothing, so I would be happy to be here," explained the Swedish.

"I not have believed it would lead, so I have to say that it's been a good day, but I must say I am a little disappointed by this".

"I knew I had to take a big advantage because tomorrow will be the first on the road."

Juha tomorrow leaving similar with Ostberg, although not be projecting that are as complicated as this Friday. Petter Solberg is nearly a minute behind his Citroen Ostberg having struggled a little with the clouded windscreen he finished in third position.

While his older brother Henning Solberg won until the fourth position within a run strong in the second car of fifth. Again back been the Citroen with Sebastien Ogier who despite having improved apace with Citroen DS3 is sixth, a position remote pilot factory.

His teammate Mikko Hirvonen had worse when he suffered a puncture in the last stage today and lost a minute leaving at 2'48 leader.

Kimi Raikkonen (Ice1 Citroen) seemed destined to end the day in the top 10 but a prick left you in eleventh position in general.

Pos driver car time 1 Mads Ostberg Ford 1h17m21.2s 2. Mikko Hirvonen Ford + 14.8s 3. Petter Solberg Citroen + 57.4s 4. Jari-Matti Latvala Ford + 1m10.0s 5. Henning Solberg Ford + 1m20.3s 6. Sebastien Ogier Citroen + 1m21.6s 7. Patrik Sandell Skoda + 2m35.1s 8. Eyvind Brynildsen Skoda + 2m43.5s 9. Sebastien Loeb Citroen + 2m48.4s10. Khalid to biting Ford + 4m12.4sescrito by Miguel Fernandez © leagues engine. Prohibited the total or partial reproduction of this content. Sources: (GMM), (CIAM), photos: Getty and F1 teams.

Sweden: Ostberg is leader with Hirvonen in second position

Mads Ostberg Stobart team driver has been as interim leader of Sweden Rally have 24.8 seconds on Mikko Hirvonen Ford driver.

Despite leaving in tenth position under the same conditions of snow, Ostberg was the fastest in the ES2 and roxalia and second in the ES3.

"I am very confident with the car and what I'm doing pretty easy," said the pilot Stobart. "I hope the pace notes, trust the co-pilot and hope the fantastic car I'm driving." "I feel very comfortable with the speed we have at the moment, so I feel good."

Behind the pilot factory Hirvonen mantinene 21 seconds ahead of the third Petter Solberg classified, the first pilot of Citroen.

Sebastien Loeb has the worst conditions and has lost 1 minute 46 seconds to Ostberg.

"It's almost unmanageable," said Loeb. "We are wasting an incredible time."

Jari-Matti Latvala lost third place for Solberg in the ES3.

Sebastien Ogier is eighth. French has been leading conservative way given his lack of experience in the snow. Kimi Raikkonen (ICE1 Citroen) was eleventh.

Pos pilot mark time 1 Mads Ostberg Ford 40m10.8s 2. Mikko Hirvonen Ford + 24.8s 3. Petter Solberg Citroen + 45.6s 4. Jari-Matti Latvala Ford + 1m19.8s 5. Patrik Sandell Skoda + 1m20.0s 6. Henning Solberg Ford + 1m21.4s 7. Eyvind Brynildsen Skoda + 1m27.1s 8. Sebastien Ogier Citroen + 1m35.0s 9. Sebastien Loeb Citroen + 1m46.7s10. Martin Prokop Ford + 2m06.3sescrito by Miguel Fernandez © leagues engine. Prohibited the total or partial reproduction of this content. Sources: (GMM), (CIAM), photos: Getty and F1 teams.

Ostberg remains leader in Rally Sweden

Mads Ostberg (Stobart Ford) continues as leader of the Sweden Rally, but Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) shortened differences to place 14.8 seconds.

"I knew I had to take a big advantage because tomorrow will be the first on the road."

His teammate Mikko Hirvonen had worse when he suffered a puncture in the last stage today and lost a minute leaving at 2'48 leader.

Kimi Raikkonen (Ice1 Citroen) seemed destined to end the day in the top 10 but a prick left you in eleventh position in general.

Sweden 2011 rally: Mads Ostberg ends stage one leader

After the surprise initial see Mads Ostberg as first and Loeb being constantly overcome by pilots with worst mount we have reached an afternoon loop much more similar to what they knew. In spite of this Norwegian pilot Stobart Ostberg, followed by sending in the overall standings during the second past by Friday sections.

The difference after the special fifth stabilised than the half-minute difference on the runner-up Mikko Hirvonen. Scratch, however, was not for any of the two pilots, but that recorded it a Per Gunnar Andersson arrived with a desire to recover the time lost by mistake during the morning. To be able to vote this post you must login or register here.

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Grip had improved by then that the Organization had become through the snow to remove the mounds which had formed. This also resulted in turn to leave some "bald" land on the surface, and therefore that nails tyres were more than usual.

For its part Petter Solberg saw as fell you a penalty of ten seconds to the out late assists that divided the two loops. Another of the Citroen, in this case Sebastien Ogier achieves special second the afternoon the first scratch for the gala brand in what we have been of rallye.

Certainly surprising East done, if we consider the C4 WRC finished last season with an iron hand to dominate the Championship. Sebastien Loeb also increased the pace and reached less than three seconds behind his teammate.

However the Alsatian was not going to avoid bad luck, by clicking on the last stretch of the day, leaving a handful of seconds with its rivals. While both head Mads Ostberg continued as leader, but this time it was seen as Mikko Hirvonen was approached much after cut almost 20 seconds to experience problems with your Ford Fiesta RS WRC lights.

Other than had problems of visibility was Petter Solberg, who reported problems with marred his windshield that did not let him attack background. In spite of this, the Norwegian has finished the day third general with 12.6 seconds ahead of Jari-Matti Latvala.

1 M. OSTBERG 1: 17: 21 2 0.0
2 M. HIRVONEN 1: 17: 36 0 + 14.8
3 P. SOLBERG 1: 18: 18 6 + 57.4
4 J. LATVALA 1: 18: 31 2 + 1: 10. 0
5 H. SOLBERG 1: 18: 41 5 + 1: 20. 3
6 S. OGIER 1: 18: 42 8 + 1: 21. 6
7 P. SANDELL 1: 19: 56 3 + 2: 35. 1
8 E. BRYNILDSEN 1: 20: 04 7 + 2: 43. 5
9 S. LOEB 1: 20: 09 6 + 2: 48. 4
10 K. TO BITING 1: 21: 33 6 + 4: 12. 4

Sweden: Ostberg is leader with Hirvonen in second position

Mads Ostberg Stobart team driver has been as interim leader of Sweden Rally have 24.8 seconds on Mikko Hirvonen Ford driver.

Behind the pilot factory Hirvonen mantinene 21 seconds ahead of the third Petter Solberg classified, the first pilot of Citroen.

Sebastien Loeb has the worst conditions and has lost 1 minute 46 seconds to Ostberg.

"It's almost unmanageable," said Loeb. "We are wasting an incredible time."

Jari-Matti Latvala lost third place for Solberg in the ES3.

Sebastien Ogier is eighth. French has been leading conservative way given his lack of experience in the snow. Kimi Raikkonen (ICE1 Citroen) was eleventh.

Mads Ostberg and Kimi Raikkonen present their decorations

Less than a week after the start of world Rallye let's hear most of the decorations using each team for Swedish test. It is the case of two Nordic pilots who have shown us today for the first time the decorations that used this season. The first is Mads Ostberg presented to us by the colours of their Ford Fiesta RS WRC.

Norwegian will run for the first time with the brand of the oval world Rallye after spending many years in the orbit of Subaru and Prodrive and make it scoring in paragraph marks for the Stobart team.The second pilot that we must talk is Kimi Raikkonen. After the death of the father of Finnish even a doubt about the continuity of his career, but still here and begins the season giving us the first surprise. To be able to vote this post you must login or register here.

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And it is that as was rumored seems Red Bull has disappeared from the sponsorship of Ferrari and his new Citroen DS3 WRC. Decoration is dominated by the Matt Black dotted with the usual style used Kimi for the painting of their helmets. The variety is certainly taste, albeit in decorations and not cars.