Posts Tagged ‘citroen c4wrc’

Video: Petter Solberg test in Sweden

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Here are two videos from Petter’s test in Sweden. Looking at them, you can easily understand he had fun :)

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Thanks to Hedlund80 for the videos.

Photo: Petter flat out in Sweden

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Petter Solberg testing outside Torsby in Sweden today. Photo: PSWRT

Petter Solberg testing outside Torsby in Sweden today. Photo: PSWRT

Petter Solberg tested his Citroën C4WRC today outside Torsby – and had really fun according to himself. From the reports I’ve heard, Petter is satisfied with the car, but of course there are things left to tweak. Good then that Petter has hired Francois “Fx” Demaison full time this year as an engineer, so they can sort things out…

Tomorrow Petter will start the local rally Finnskogsvalsen as an extended test – around 90 km’s of competitive stages on old Rally Sweden roads. It will be really interesting to hear Petters impressions after that test!

Petter Solberg to test his Citroen C4WRC in Finnskogsvalsen

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Not only Räikkönen is testing – rumours say that Petter Solberg will test in one of his two newly bought Citroen C4 WRC’s in Finnskogsvalsen on the 23rd of January. Finnskogsvalsen is a local Swedish competition in the county of Värmland, running on the same type of roads as the Rally Sweden.

Here is an extract from the entry list in the rally:

Petter Solberg NAF A-förare Citroën
Phil Mills Grp. A > 2000 C4 WRC

Click here for the full entry list for Finnskogsvalsen

Kimi Räikkönen completes test in the Citroen C4 WRC in Satory, France

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Kimi Räikkönen, Citroen C4WRC, Photo: Citroen

Kimi Räikkönen did his first Citroen C4 WRC tests yesterday in Citroens test track outside their factory in Satory, France. The test covered around 50km’s and was successful. Afterwards, Räikkönen talked to Autosport and told that he enjoyed meeting the team. He also stated he wants to get back in the car soon:

- It was good to try out a few different things; I was very interested to see how the car reacted when you changed some of the settings. Now I’m really keen to get back behind the wheel of the C4 again, Räikkönen said.

The good thing for Räikkönen then is that his competitive debut, as known, will be already in the Arctic Rally in Finland later this month – as a preparation for Rally Sweden. I also guess that more tests are planned before that rally.

Kimi Räikkönen in the Citroen C4 WRC, Photo: Citroen

More testing this weekend

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Besides Patrik Sandell(video), Henning Solberg and Petter Solberg many others have tested for Norway this weekend. Anders Gröndal rolled his Subaru during testing in Norway, but both he and the car escaped without major problems. Mads Östberg – same team and same test – went into the ditch, but also him without further problems. Their second day of testing is reported to have become more successful. Patrik Flodin and Andreas Mikkelsen tested in Lima while PG Andersson did a small warm-up on Sunday before his real test today, Monday. Also Russian youngster Evgeny Novikov has tested, first time in the Citroen C4WRC. The test is reported to have went well and Novikov got around 330 km’s in the car on full snow.