Rally Sweden 2012

 Rally Sweden 2012

Racing data
2nd of 13 races in the 2012 World Rally Championship
Surname:	Rally Sweden
Date:	9-12 February 2012
Begin:	Karlstad
Exams:	24 tests over 349.16 km
Distance:	1469.36 km
Covering:	ice and snow
Podium
First:	Jari-Matti Latvala Ford World Rally Team
Second:	Mikko Hirvonen Citroën Total World Rally Team
Third:	Mads Østberg Adapta World Rally Team

Jari-Matti Latvala 2012

The 60th Rally Sweden was held from February 9th to 12th, 2012. A total of 24 special stages were run on snow and ice.

Reports

Day 1 (Thursday, February 9th)

The 2013 Rally Sweden began in Karlstad with a 1.9 kilometer special stage . Dani Sordo (MINI) was the fastest ahead of Mads Østberg (Ford) and Ott Tänak (Ford). The intervals were in the tenths of a second range.

Day 2 (Friday, February 10th)

Ford works driver Jari-Matti Latvala took the lead after the fourth special stage, ahead of Petter Solberg (Ford). Sébastien Loeb (Citroën) received a ten-second penalty for leaving the service park too late that morning. On the 20.17 kilometer SS 3 Loeb drove the fastest. Mikko Hirvonen (Citroën) set the fastest time on SS 4 and 5 and overtook Latvala. In the seventh special stage, Loeb got off the road and got stuck in a snow bank. In doing so, he lost around two minutes on the leaders. Up to SS 10 Latvala prevailed against Hirvonen (+16.8 seconds) and stayed as the leader. Hirvonen lost some time and came under pressure from Solberg, who was only 1.8 seconds behind him.

3rd day (Saturday, February 11th)

Latvala also ended Saturday as the leader in the overall standings and keeps Hirvonen at a distance. Loeb's race to catch up ended with a spin that continued to cost the world champion time. At the end of the day he was sixth, almost 3 minutes behind, as he had a puncture in the afternoon.

4th day (Sunday, February 12th)

After the first special stages on Sunday, Latvala was able to extend the lead to Hirvonen. Mads Østberg was consistently faster than Solberg and he was getting closer and closer to third place. Loeb could not shorten the gap to Evgeny Novikov in front and stayed in sixth place. Latvala and his team-mate Solberg had a puncture in the 22nd special stage. Latvala was still able to win the rally, while Solberg slipped from the podium to fourth place. Østberg was classified in third place, Loeb remained in sixth place.

Classifications

Bottom line

rank	driver	Co-driver	automobile	time	Residue	World Championship points + power stage
WRC
01	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 18: 28.3		25 + 1
02	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Citroën DS3 WRC	3: 18: 44.9	+16.6	18th
03	Mads Østberg	Jonas Andersson	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 19: 07.1	+38.8	15th
04th	Petter Solberg	Chris Patterson	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 19: 42.6	+1: 14.3	12 + 2
05	Evgeny Novikov	Denis Giraudet	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 21: 09.7	+2: 41.4	10
06th	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën DS3 WRC	3: 21: 23.4	+2: 55.1	8 + 3
07th	Henning Solberg	Ilka Minor	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 22: 17.8	+3: 49.5	6th
08th	Patrik Sandell	Staffan Parmander	Mini John Cooper Works WRC	3: 23: 37.2	+5: 08.9	4th
09	Martin Prokop	Zdeněk Hrůza	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 23: 58.3	+5: 30.0	2
10	Eyvind Brynildsen	Cato Menkerud	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	3: 24: 55.5	+6: 27.2	1
SWRC
1 (14)	Per-Gunnar Andersson	Emil Axelsson	Proton Satria Neo S2000	3:30: 16.8		25th
2 (16)	Craig Breen	Gareth Roberts	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 31: 52.6	+1: 35.8	18th
3 (18)	Pontus Tidemand	Jørgen Nordhagen	Škoda Fabia S2000	3: 33: 06.4	+2: 49.6	15th
4 (23)	Hayden Paddon	John Kennard	Škoda Fabia S2000	3: 39: 26.9	+9: 10.1	12
5 (24)	Yazeed Al-Rajhi	Michael Orr	Ford Fiesta S2000	3: 44: 34.4	+14: 17.6	10
6 (34)	Maciej Oleksowicz	Andrzej Obrebowski	Ford Fiesta S2000	4: 18: 50.4	+48: 33.6	8th
7 (37)	Alister McRae	Bill Hayes	Proton Satria Neo S2000	4: 31: 02.1	+1: 00: 45.3	6th

Special stages

Day	WP number	begin	WP name	length	WP winner	time	Ø km / h	leader
Day 1/2 (February 9th / 10th)	01	8:04 p.m.	Karlstad 1	01.90 km	Dani Sordo	01: 34.2	072.61 km / h	Dani Sordo
	02	08:04	Mitandersfors	27.07 km	Mads Østberg Jari-Matti Latvala	14: 13.0	115.60 km / h	Mads Østberg
	03	09:28	Opaque 1	20.17 km	Sébastien Loeb	10: 45.8	112.44 km / h	Jari-Matti Latvala
	04th	10:03	Kirkener 1	7.10 km	Mikko Hirvonen	05: 41.0	074.96 km / h
	05	10:38	Finnskogen 1	20.97 km	Mikko Hirvonen	11: 57.2	105.25 km / h	Mikko Hirvonen
	06th	12:48	Opaque 2	20.17 km	Sébastien Loeb	10: 30.1	115.24 km / h
	07th	13:23	Kirkener 2	7.10 km	Mikko Hirvonen	05: 34.9	076.32 km / h
	08th	13:58	Finnskogen 2	20.97 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	11: 48.3	106.58 km / h	Jari-Matti Latvala
	09	16:05	Torsby	19.21 km	Petter Solberg	09: 51.5	116.91 km / h
	10	19:20	SSS Karlstad 2	1.90 km	Petter Solberg	01: 32.6	073.87 km / h
Day 3 (February 11th)	11	07:58	Vargåsen 1	24.63 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	12: 08.6	121.70 km / h
	12	09:46	Sågen 1	14.23 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	07: 32.4	113.24 km / h
	13	10:46	Fredriksberg 1	18.15 km	Mikko Hirvonen	10: 26.4	104.31 km / h
	14th	12:03	Hagfors Sprint 1st	01.87 km	Ott Tanak	01: 52.3	059.95 km / h
	15th	13:46	Vargåsen 2	24.63 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	13: 02.6	113.30 km / h
	16	15:34	Sågen 2	14.23 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	07: 22.8	115.69 km / h
	17th	16:34	Fredriksberg 2	18.15 km	Mikko Hirvonen	10: 26.7	104.26 km / h
	18th	17:51	Hagfors Sprint 2	01.87 km	Ott Tänak Sébastien Loeb	1: 58.0	057.05 km / h
Day 4. (February 12)	19th	08:34	Lesjöfors 1	15.00 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	09: 10.3	098.13 km / h
	20th	09:10	Ramming 1	22.76 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	11: 47.1	115.88 km / h
	21st	09:59	Hagfors 1	04.66 km	Mads Østberg	03: 05.2	090.58 km / h
	22nd	12:08	Lesjöfors 2	15.00 km	Mads Østberg	09: 00.8	099.85 km / h
	23	12:44	Ramming 2	22.76 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	11: 40.7	116.93 km / h
	24	14:11	Hagfors 2 (power stage)	04.66 km	Sébastien Loeb	02: 58.7	093.88 km / h

Web links

• Official site of the WRC

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsport-total.com - Internet site: News: motorsport-total.com/rallye/news.html?y=2012&m=2&p=-1&r=sn_13&snb= . Retrieved February 16, 2014 .