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First VW victory in WRC with Sebastien Ogier
Posted by WRC - 10/02/13 03:41PM - 0 Comments - WRC - 1/52/53/54/55/5

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The French driver Sebastien Ogier wins Rally Sweden 2013. Ogier wins the rally in competition of Sebastien Loeb that is the first VW victory in WRC.
In the last day Loeb win the first stage as cut the distance to 23.6 seconds with Ogier in the overall results.
Henning Solberg lost his eight place as move to tenth overall due too alternator problems.
Jari Ketomaa do not start the day due too health problems.
In SS 18 the stage win is for Sebastien Loeb followed by Ogier. In the stage Dani Sordo move to eight position.
Sordo said:  I have nothing interseting to say, we changed the gearbox and the rear, but it's not much better.
In SS 19 Kirkener 1 7.16 km Loeb cut the overall distance to Ogier to 20.7 seconds.
In the next SS 20 Kirkener 2 Ogier takes the lead with 3.9 seconds to Loeb. The stage bring a bad luck to Evgeny Novikov who rolled in the stage and lost over 10-minutes.
Novikov comment: “It was a tricky corner. It was blind and I came too fast into the bend. It was very narrow and we rolled. It took a long time to get back on the wheels. It was my mistake, I braked too late.”
Dani Sordo crashed in the stage, as hit a rock. He was eight overall.
Mads Ostberg win SS 21 Finnskogen 2 16.82 km followed by Ogier at +1.3 seconds.
Latvala comment:  I really can't go as fast as Ogier. We have the same car, but to be honest, I really don't know why.
In the Power Stage SS 22 Torsby with a distance of 19.26 km Sebastien Ogier is first second is Latvala at +1.0 second, third is Ostberg at +3.2 while Loeb is sixth. Henning Solberg spun in the stage but keeps his eight position overall.
Comments:
Ogier:  I had amazing feeling all the weekend, really amazing. We had to push all the time, Sébastien Loeb was really fast. We tried a lot with our team during the year, but we didn't expect we would win already in here. Great!
Loeb: We lost a lot of time in qualifying and following road position, there were also few mistakes, but then we had good pace. But it was not enough to Ogier.
Ostberg:  It was full of ups and downs, but we had great battle with Jari-Matti and I have very good feeling now.
Latvala: Disappointment for sure, we need to get relaxed and switch to Mexico.

Final Results:
1. S. Ogier (Volkswagen Polo R WRC) 3:11:41.9
2. S. Loeb (Citroen DS3 WRC) +41.8
3. M. Ostberg (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +1:24.5 (Penalty +20.0)
4. J. Latvala (Volkswagen Polo R WRC) +1:30.6
5. T. Neuville (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +5:06.4
6. J. Hanninen (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +5:43.1
7. M. Prokop (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +11:25.4
8. H. Solberg (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +11:52.7 (Penalty +4:30.0)
9. E. Novikov (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +13:04.7
10. Y. Al Rajhi (Ford Fiesta S2000) +16:27.0
 



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