Rally Sweden 2010

 Rally Sweden 2010

Racing data
1st of 13 rounds of the 2010 World Rally Championship
Surname:	Rally Sweden
Date:	11-14 February 2010
Begin:	Karlstad
Exams:	21 tests over 345.15 km
Distance:	1879.23 km
Covering:	ice and snow
Podium
First:	Mikko Hirvonen Ford World Rally Team
Second:	Sébastien Loeb Citroën World Rally Team
Third:	Jari-Matti Latvala Ford World Rally Team

The 58th Rally Sweden kicked off the 2010 World Rally Championship . It was the first and only world championship run of the season on gravel roads covered with snow and ice. The rally took place from February 11th to 14th. The Rally Sweden was the first World Championship round in history to be driven by both the Production Car Rally World Championship and the new Super 2000 World Rally Championship. A new point system has also been introduced for all classes. The system provides 25 points for the winner, 18 for second, 15 for third, 12 for fourth, and then ten, eight, six, four, two and one point for tenth.

Race report

Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) won the rally and celebrated his twelfth victory in the World Rally Championship. The reigning world champion Sébastien Loeb (Citroën) finished second and lost around 42 seconds to the Finn. Hirvonen's team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala came third on the podium. Marcus Grönholm was rated 21st on his comeback. 2007 Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen (Citroën) drove the second WRC rally in his career and the first at the wheel of a top-class rally car. Raikkonen lost over half an hour to the leader when his car got stuck in a soft wall of snow, he had to dig up the car. He couldn't make up for the lost time and finished the rally in 29th place overall.

The SWRC class won Per-Gunnar Andersson before Janne Tuohino and Martin Prokop , the long delivered an exciting fight. In the PWRC class , Patrik Flodin won by more than a minute over Anders Grøndal . The Portuguese Armindo Araújo placed third overall, five minutes behind Flodin.

Classifications

Bottom line

Item	driver	Co-driver	automobile	time	Residue	Points
WRC
01	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 09: 30.4		25th
02	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 10: 12.7	00: 42.3	18th
03	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 10: 45.8	01: 15.4	15th
04th	Dani Sordo	Marc Martí	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 12: 12.0	02: 41.6	12
05	Sébastien Ogier	Julien Ingrassia	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 13: 45.7	04: 15.3	10
06th	Henning Solberg	Ilka Minor	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 14: 53.8	05: 23.4	8th
07th	Matthew Wilson	Scott Martin	Ford Focus RS WRC	3: 17: 24.3	07: 53.9	6th
08th	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson	Subaru Impreza WRC	3: 18: 52.6	09: 22.2	4th
09	Petter Solberg	Phil Mills	Citroën C4 WRC	3: 19: 47.9	10: 17.5	2
10	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Not so Fredriksson	Škoda Fabia S2000	3: 21: 39.3	12: 08.9	1
SWRC
01 (10)	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Not so Fredriksson	Škoda Fabia S2000	3: 21: 39.3		25th
02 (12)	Janne Tuohino	Markku Tuohino	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 22: 36.6	00: 57.3	18th
03 (14)	Martin Prokop	Jan Tománek	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 24: 35.7	02: 56.4	15th
04 (15)	Patrik Sandell	Emil Axelsson	Škoda Fabia S2000	3: 26: 19.4	04: 40.1	12
05 (16)	Eyvind Brynildsen	Cato Menkerud	Škoda Fabia S2000	3: 26: 37.3	04: 58.0	10
06 (19)	Bernardo Sousa	Nuno Rodrigues da Silva	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 28: 54.9	07: 15.6	8th
07 (25)	Per-Arne Sääv	Karl-Olof Lexe	Škoda Fabia S2000	3: 39: 28.7	17: 49.4	6th
PWRC
01 (18)	Patrik Flodin	Göran Bergsten	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	3: 28: 04.7		25th
02 (20)	Not Grøndal	Veronica Engan	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	3: 29: 17.8	01: 13.1	18th
03 (23)	Armindo Araújo	Miguel Ramalho	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	3: 33: 09.6	05: 04.9	15th
04 (27)	Fabio Friseiro	Jordi Barrabes Costa	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	3: 44: 49.8	16: 45.1	12
05 (30)	Martin Semerád	Bohuslav Ceplecha	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX	3: 49: 52.5	21: 47.8	10
06 (31)	Reijo Muhonen	Leave rental lines	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	3: 53: 00.0	24: 55.3	8th
07 (40)	Gianluca Linari	Paolo Gregoriani	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	4: 11: 03.3	42: 58.6	6th
08 (42)	Paulo Nobre	Edu Paula	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X	4: 19: 52.8	51: 48.1	4th

Special stages

Day	WP number	WP name	length	WP winner	time	Ø km / h	leader
Day 1 (Feb 11)	WP1	Karlstad Super Special Stage 1	1.90 km	Dani Sordo	1: 31.4	74.84 km / h	Dani Sordo
Day 2 (Feb 12)	WP2	Likenäs 1	20.78 km	Sébastien Loeb	11: 33.7	107.84 km / h	Sébastien Loeb
	WP3	Viggen 1	21.28 km	Sébastien Loeb	10: 50.7	117.73 km / h
	WP4	Torntorp 1	19.21 km	Mikko Hirvonen	9: 54.7	116.29 km / h
	WP5	Likenäs 2	20.78 km	Mikko Hirvonen	11: 37.7	107.22 km / h	Mikko Hirvonen
	WP6	Viggen 2	21.28 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	10: 49.5	117.95 km / h
	WP7	Torntorp 2	19.21 km	Mikko Hirvonen	9: 57.0	115.84 km / h
	WP8	Karlstad Super Special Stage 2	1.90 km	Sébastien Loeb	1: 34.8	72.15 km / h
Day 3 (Feb 13)	WP9	Vargåsen 1	24.63 km	Mikko Hirvonen	13: 18.4	111.06 km / h
	WP10	Sågen 1	14.23 km	Sébastien Loeb	7: 13.1	118.28 km / h
	WP11	Fredriksberg 1	18.15 km	Sébastien Loeb	10: 27.4	104.14 km / h
	WP12	Hagfors Sprint 1st	1.87 km	Sébastien Loeb	2: 05.1	53.81 km / h
	WP13	Vargåsen 2	24.63 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	13: 06.4	112.75 km / h
	WP14	Sågen 2	14.23 km	Marcus Grönholm	7: 14.5	117.90 km / h
	WP15	Fredriksberg 2	18.15 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	10: 44.2	101.43 km / h
	WP16	Hagfors Sprint 2	1.87 km	Martin Prokop	2: 14.9	49.90 km / h
Day 4 (Feb. 14)	WP17	Ramming 1	21.87 km	Sébastien Loeb	11: 11.3	117.28 km / h
	WP18	Värmullsåsen 1	23.41 km	Mikko Hirvonen	13: 13.2	106.25 km / h
	WP19	Lesjöfors	10.49 km	Mikko Hirvonen	5: 52.9	107.01 km / h
	WP20	Ramming 2	21.87 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	10: 59.6	119.36 km / h
	WP21	Värmullsåsen 2	23.41 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	13: 19.1	105.46 km / h

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ewrc-results.com: 58th Swedish Rally 2010 , accessed December 12, 2014

Web links

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