RALLY SWEDEN 2013

Round two, Rally Sweden will be based at Karlstad will feature stages both in Sweden and neighbouring Norway. The only snow round of the season will start on Thursday 7 February at Karlstad, before heading to classic stages such as Hagofrs and Vargasen, which includes the famous “Colin’s Crest”. The rally will head into Norway on Sunday 10 February, which will feature the 19km “Torsby” stage, which will serve as the Power Stage.

WHAT HAPPENED IN 2013

Sébastien Ogier's win on Rally Sweden was also the first for the Volkswagen Polo R in the WRC, in just its second outing. Ogier led nearly the entire rally, thanks to his best time in qualifying, which saw him start last among the WRC entries and of course the high-performance level of the VW. The Frenchman completed his dominace of the weekend in setting best time on the Pwer Stage to move to the top of the driver championship standings.  Despite pushing all the way to the last of the 22 special stages, Sébastien Loeb and Citroen were just no match for the dominance of Ogier and Volkswgen. Mads Ostberg battled back from an early 20-second time penalty to get the better of Jari-Matti Latvala in the battle for third place.

2013 : Sébastien Ogier
2012 : Jari-Matti Latvala
2011 : Mikko Hirvonen
2010 : Mikko Hirvonen
2008 : Jari-Matti Latvala
2007 : Marcus Gronholm
2006 : Marcus Gronholm

1 - Ogier
2 - Loeb
3 - Ostberg
4 - Latvala
5 - Neuville
6 - Hanninen 7 - Prokop
8 - H.Solberg
9 - Novikov
10 - Al Rajhi

Thursday February 7
Qualifying stage – 10h33
SS1 Super Special stage Karlstad 1
20h04 (1,90km)

Friday February 8
SS2 Lesjofors
8h39 (15km)
SS3 Varmullsasen
9h33 (23,77km)
SS4 Vargasen
10h43 (24,63km)
SS5 Lesjofors
13h21 (15km)
SS6 Varmullsasen
14h15 (23.,77km)
SS7 Vargasen
15h25 (24,63km)
SS8 Super Special Karlstaad
19h (1,90km)

Total km: 600,09 including 128,70 of special stages

Saturday February 9
SS9 Sagen
8h47 (14,23km)
SS10 Fredriksberg
9h52 (18,15km)
SS11 Rammen
10h39 (22,76km)
SS12 Hagfors Sprint 1
11h20 (1.87km)
SS13 Sagen
13h38 (14,23km)
SS14 Fredriksberg
14h43 (18,15km)
SS15 Rammen
15h30 (22,76km)
SS16 Hagfors Sprint
16h11 (1.87km)

Total km: 503,91 including 114,02 of speciaql stages

Sunday February 10
SS17 Mitandersfors
7h54 (27,07km)
SS18 Finnskogen
9h11(16,82km)
SS19 Kirkener
10h06 (7,16km)
SS20 Kirkener
11h19 (7,16km)
SS21 Finnskogen
11h54 (16,82km)
SS22 Torsby
14h12 (19.26km)

Total km: 468.93 dont 94.29 de spéciales

Name: Jari-Matti Latvala
Date of Birth: 1985, 3 April
Pays: Finland
WRC Start: Great-Britain 2002
Codriver: Miikka Anttila
Latvala