Rally Sweden 2007

 Rally Sweden 2007

Racing data
2nd of 16 races in the 2007 World Rally Championship
Surname:	Rally Sweden
Date:	9-11 February 2007
Begin:	Karlstad
Exams:	20 tests over 340.18 km
Distance:	1440.08 km
Covering:	Asphalt, ice and snow
Podium
First:	Marcus Grönholm Ford World Rally Team
Second:	Sébastien Loeb Citroën World Rally Team
Third:	Mikko Hirvonen Ford World Rally Team

The 56th Rally Sweden was the second of 16 FIA - World Cup races 2007 . The rally consisted of 20 special stages and was held between February 9th and 11th.

Race report

Marcus Grönholm (Ford) won the Rally Sweden for the fifth time in his career . The Finn took the lead in the fifth special stage and could not be taken back.

Second placed Sébastien Loeb (Citroën) had an exciting weekend behind him. He totally screwed up the start of the first special stage and stalled the engine. Loeb started a race to catch up from 20th place. On Saturday morning he even had the chance to dispute Grönholm for victory, but in the afternoon he made a mistake in the tire choice.

Third on the podium was Grönholm's team-mate Mikko Hirvonen , who rounded off the success of the Ford works team. Hirvonen fought for third place with Henning Solberg (Ford) and Daniel Carlsson (Citroën) over the whole weekend , but was later able to pull away. Solberg finished in fourth and Carlsson in fifth.

Classifications

Bottom line

Item	driver	Co-driver	automobile	time	Residue	Points
WRC
01	Marcus Grönholm	Timo Rautiainen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 08: 40.7		10
02	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 09: 34.5	00: 53.8	08th
03	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 10: 22.2	01: 41.5	06th
04th	Henning Solberg	Cato Menkerud	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 10: 50.5	02: 09.8	05
05	Daniel Carlsson	Denis Giraudet	Citroën Xsara WRC	3: 14: 55.2	03: 37.8	04th
06th	Toni Gardemeister	Jakke Honkanen	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC	3: 12: 34.9	03: 54.2	03
07th	Manfred Stohl	Ilka Minor	Citroën Xsara WRC	3: 13: 53.2	05: 12.5	02
08th	Chris Atkinson	Glenn MacNeall	Subaru Impreza WRC	3: 14: 55.4	06: 14.7	01
PCWRC
1 (16)	Oscar Svedlund	Bjorn Nilsson	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	3: 25: 29.2	16: 48.5	10
2 (17)	Anton Alén	Timo Alanne	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	3: 26: 07.8	17: 27.1	08th
3 (18)	Kristian Sohlberg	Risto Pietiläinen	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	3: 27: 11.9	18: 31.2	06th
4 (20)	Armindo Araújo	Miguel Ramalho	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	3: 30: 07.7	21: 27.0	05
5 (22)	Fumio Nutahara	Daniel Barritt	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	3: 30: 34.9	24: 54.2	04th
06 (23)	Toshi Arai	Tony Sircombe	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	3: 33: 29.7	21: 46.0	03
7 (27)	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Chris Patterson	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	3: 45: 19.0	36: 38.3	02
8 (29)	Fabio Frisiero	Simone Scattolin	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	3: 50: 02.9	41.22.2	01

Special stages

Day	WP number	Start CET	WP name	length	driver	automobile	time	Ø km / h	leader
Day 1 Feb 9	WP1	08:03	Karlstad Super Speci	1.89 km	Toni Gardemeister	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC	1: 31.9	74.04 km / h	Toni Gardemeister
	WP2	08:43	Likenas 1	21.78 km	Petter Solberg	Subaru Impreza S12 WRC	12: 40.6	103.09 km / h	Petter Solberg
	WP3	10:06	Hara 1	11.31 km	Gigi Galli	Citroën Xsara WRC	6: 22.6	106.42 km / h
	WP4	10:44	Torntorp 1	19.20 km	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	9: 56.8	115.82 km / h
	WP5	13:27	Likenas 2	21.78 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	12: 21.5	105.74 km / h	Marcus Grönholm
	WP6	14:49	Hara 2	11.31 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	6: 10.1	110.01 km / h
	WP7	15:28	Vargasen 1	24.62 km	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	13: 57.7	105.8 km / h
	WP8	16:46	Hagfors Sprint 1st	1.87 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	2: 00.0	56.1 km / h
Day 2 Feb 10	WP9	08:03	Lesjofors	10.48 km	Sébastien Loeb	Citroën C4 WRC	5: 45.1	109.32 km / h
	WP10	08:43	Liljendal	34.54 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	17: 50.3	116.18 km / h
	WP11	11:13	Torntorp 2	19.20 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	9: 35.0	120.21 km / h
	WP12	11:45	Vargasen 2	24.62 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	13: 17.9	111.08 km / h
	WP13	14:28	Fredriksberg	24.75 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	13: 54.4	106.78 km / h
	WP14	15:33	Lejen	26.46 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	14: 41.8	108.02 km / h
	WP15	16:51	Hagfors Sprint 2	1.87 km	Mads Østberg	Subaru Impreza S10 WRC	1: 59.3	56.43 km / h
Day 3 Feb 11	WP16	08:18	Bačka 1	30.95 km	Chris Atkinson	Subaru Impreza S12 WRC	16: 31.6	112.36 km / h
	WP17	09:15	Malta 1	11.25 km	Henning Solberg	Ford Focus RS WRC	5: 42.2	118.35 km / h
	WP18	10:54	Bačka 2	30.95 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	16: 30.0	112.55 km / h
	WP19	11:57	Malta 2	11.25 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	5: 44.1	117.7 km / h
	WP20	14:00	Karlstad Super Speci	1.89 km	Marcus Grönholm	Ford Focus RS WRC	1: 40.7	67.57 km / h

Source:

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsport-total.com: Grönholm puts on the Swedish crown , accessed on December 22, 2015.
2. ↑ ewrc-results.com: 56th Uddeholm Swedish Rally 2007 , accessed on December 22, 2015.

Web links

Commons : World Rally Championship 2007  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website