2 Rallys down

[Russ]

Yup, last weekend was rally sweden, following on from Monte Carlo.

In Monte Carlo Sebastien Loeb in his Citeron rained supreme, but as we ALL know, Sweden is where hearts and cars are broken.

Day 1, old snow on the ground, dirt gravel and ice! Horrid? HELL NO this is Sweden, count yourselves lucky. Martin in his Focus RS was top after day 1.

Then, shock horror, it snowed in Sweden. Lots of snow. gravel and traction were hard to come by, and snow and ice rained supreme. But Martin was 40 secs clear of Sebastien Loeb, and surely favourite... he was flying, like a mad man, and not even the snow drifts could stop him... unless, there was a rock hiding in the snow banks, crunch, bye bye rear axel, bye bye focus bye bye 10 points. with martin out Loeb and his citeron powered into first place followed by Marcus Gronholm in his Pug. The Subaru of Solberg took up 3rd place at the close of day 2.

Day 3, more snow, but Loeb was 40 secs clear, and he didnt ease up. Winning the rally by a good 46 secs at the end of the day. Martin could only push 7th after having lost so much time with the broken axel.

So thats 2 outa 2 for Leob who tops the charts with 20
Gronholm in 2nd with 8
and Peter Solberg with 6

Theres a long way to go tho chaps, and next up is Mexico 12-14 march, can any 1 say gravel rash? my money is on Solberg for this 1.

[Zak33]

its just AMAZING innit

[Tumble]

and I've missed both of them, and will probably continue to miss them until it finishes

[TiG]

I managed to get a look at a bit of the rally of sweden the in car footage of the tight stages where Martin did his car in was awesome, I think Tommi also stuffed it in those sections, sideways for what seems to be hundreds of meters.

TiG

[Russ]

I managed to get a look at a bit of the rally of sweden the in car footage of the tight stages where Martin did his car in was awesome, I think Tommi also stuffed it in those sections, sideways for what seems to be hundreds of meters.

TiG

oh god yea, you see solberg doing it in his Scooby? proper show off, all the way down the straights pointing the car the wrong way

[TomWilko]

I am taking a casual interest in the Rallying Russ...and i will admit its good. However its just a side show for me until the red lights go out on Sunday the 7th March and the F1 begins again

[Russ]

just 24 days 3 hours and 54 mins to go, not as im excited...