Posts Tagged ‘finnskogsvalsen’
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Petter Solberg's car during service while testing in Sweden on Sunday. Photo: PSWRT
Petter Solberg, who has previously done both tests and a few test rallys (Svully Rally Dahbi in Norway and Finnskogsvalsen in Sweden) during the recent weeks, tested his Citroën C4WRC in Sweden once again yesterday. In a short post on his blog Petter said that driving the car was good fun and that it’s really fast. Today Petter is probably checking in for the rally and tomorrow starts the recce that will take place during Tuesday and Wednesday.
Tags: 2010, citroen c4wrc, finnskogsvalsen, petter solberg, phil mills, rally sweden, svully rally dahbi, test, testing
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Another video of Petter in Finnskogsvalsen, with a little bit more action shots, have been published. It also features a lot of nice local cars, but if you want just Petter – look at the beginning of the film for SS1 and at 1:44 for SS3.
If more movies of Petter in Finnskogsvalsen appear later, they’ll be added to this post – so check back for latest.
NEW! Video with service and some action shots.
Thanks to bakkis2 for this video.
Thanks to cnygge for the video.
Tags: 2010, finnskogsvalsen, petter solberg, phil mills, rally sweden, sweden, torsby, värmland, Video
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010
As most of you know, Petter Solberg tested his car in Finnskogsvalsen yesterday. Here are two video clips of it, one is an interview (in Swedish/Norweigan) at the start – and one is a clip from SS2. I’ve made a summary of the most important things said in the interview below the clips.
Driving on SS2:
The interview:
Quotes from Petter’s interview:
- “This is most a way to test on many stages and get back to the feeling again”
- “I have one goal this year, and that is to beat Sebastien Loeb. I’m a privateer now and that’s tough, many people probably regard it impossible, but I will try my best and I have a 2009 spec car that should be at least almost the same as the one Loeb will drive. I will do my workouts,eat good and try to get more testing than Sebastien. He will do 15 test days this year, so I have planned 26.”
- Asked on the differences between Petter’s car and the 2010 Citroen works car, Petter says: “Sebastiens gearbox is 4 kg lighter than mine. I could get it, but it would cost me 8M NOK (ca €912.000) more, so I thought I’ll have to lose 4 kg’s myself instead.”
- Talking on when Petter left Subaru, he says: “I had a good time with Subaru and we had many good years, but it came a time without that right philosophy, and then you’ll have to do something. They’ll probably come back some time – but when you don’t fight to win anymore you can’t do anything else [than leaving]. Now it’s Citroen and times have changed, but that’s life. It changes and you can just look forward.”
- “The Citroen and the Ford is very similar cars, but I have a feeling the Citroen is better. Especially since this year’s WRC has many asphalt rallies, where the Citroen is clearly better.”
- “I have one team in Torsby and one in France. The French team is currently preparing my other car for Mexico, and it will be loaded on the containers on Monday. At the same time, Pernilla is working on clothes and other things. Everyone in this team is working all around the day now, very hard.”
- “This is the life of my family and also my wife Pernilla’s family. We all want to win and we’ll try to do it…”
Tags: 2010, citroen c4wrc, finnskogsvalsen, france, gearbox, interview, mexico, petter solberg, privateer, pswrt, rally sweden, sebastien loeb, subaru, summary, testing, torsby
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Petter Solberg's car in service during Finnskogsvalsen. Photo: PSWRT
Petter Solberg were fastest through the stages in Swedish local competition Finnskogsvalsen today, as expected (I dare to say this despite the last stage is still running, since Petter is through with a normal time and his advantage on the previous stage is 3min 56 seconds). The Norweigan drove his Citroën C4WRC through a little bit more than 80 km’s of competitive stages and seemed to be really happy about the car. Since he recced and made his own notes for the rally, which is not allowed, Petter took part out of the competition and couldn’t win the rally. This, however, is probably nothing that will give Petter problems sleeping tonight – since the rally was first and foremost a test of his new car before Rally Sweden.
At the same time, a number of big names competed in the Norweigan Championship round Mountain Rally in Norway. Anders Gröndal took the victory from second placed Henning Solberg, who were haunted by mechanical problems in his competitive debut with new co-driver Ilka Minor. Mads Östberg with his Swedish co-driver Jonas Andersson led the rally until he hit a snow bank, forcing him out of the competition. Third was Sveinung Bieltvedt, in a Subaru Impreza.
Of course even Henning, going with a Ford Focus WRC05, used the rally primarily as a preparation for Rally Sweden. In this, he was joined by Andreas Mikkelsen and Eyvind Brynhildsen, among others. Brynhildsen scored a fourth place in his Skoda Fabia S2000 while Mikkelsen scored fifth going with his Subaru Impreza – after being penalised with 1min 20s after having to change gearbox in service. Looking at Mikkelsens time if he wouldn’t have had the penalty, he was only a few seconds after Brynhildsen in his S2000, something that maybe indicates that Mikkelsen can be really, really fast when going into the Fiesta S2000 in Sweden!?
Photos from Finnskogsvalsen at Backmans Foto
Results from Finnskogsvalsen 2010 at Resultatdata
Results from Mountain Rally 2010
Tags: 2010, andreas mikkelsen, citroen c4wrc, eyvind brynhildsen, finnskogsvalsen, ford fiesta super2000, ford focus wrc05, henning solberg, ilka minor, jonas andersson, mads östberg, mountain rally, norweigan championship, petter solberg, pswrt, rally sweden, recce, s2000, skoda fabia super2000, subaru impreza, sveinung bieltvedt
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Here are two videos from Petter’s test in Sweden. Looking at them, you can easily understand he had fun 
Thanks to Hedlund80 for the videos.
Tags: citroen c4wrc, finnskogsvalsen, petter solberg, rally sweden, sweden, test, torsby, värmland, Video
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
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!
Tags: citroen c4wrc, finnskogsvalsen, petter solberg, photo, sweden, test, torsby
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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
Tags: 2010, citroen c4wrc, finnskogsvalsen, finnskogvalsen, petter solberg, rally sweden, test, testing, värmland
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