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Patrik Sandell’s new livery and test report

Monday, February 8th, 2010
Some of Sandell's new livery exposed at the successful test in Norway. Photo: James Holms

Some of Sandell's new livery exposed at the successful test in Norway. Photo: James Holms

Patrik Sandell with co-driver Emil Axelsson have spent the day testing on snow in Norway with their car for the 2010 season, the Red Bull Skoda Fabia Super2000.

Sandell himself said at the test:

- We’re doing just fine. It was good to do a rally in Norway last weekend, so we didn’t have to start at zero now. We are doing some small adjustments to the dampers to find the right setup for Rally Sweden, but the feeling is really good. Since it has snowed so much this winter the roads will be narrower than in 2008, which will make the speed go down. However, it will still be a fast rally so we chose a fast test road to see have the Skoda behaves in full speed bends.

Patrik, who will drive in the new S-WRC / WRC Cup class, continues:

- The competition in the rally will be the best we have ever met. PG is driving exactly the same car on a wild card and will be incredibly fast, so he will probably be our biggest challenge. But even Prokop and Tuohino will be there fighting for the points, he concludes.

Marcus Grönholm’s car livery for Portugal

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Marcus Grönholm and Mads Östberg have been doing tests for the upcoming Rally of Portugal. The tests were based in the Sweet Lamb complex in Wales and is reported to have went well. More tests are scheduled during the upcoming week in Spain, before the rally gets going.

Besides the test, Marcus car livery for Rally of Portugal has now been revealed – and discussions are already running high on the Internet about it being ugly. In my opinion, it’s not a really beutiful one – but still not ugly. Just a little bit boring, but probably doing it’s job to show off the sponsor logotypes quite well. Regarding the sponsors, it seems like the previously tipped sponsor Vodafone is not involved – instead the national tourist authority, Tourismo de Portugal, is main sponsor along with ACP, the Portugese motorsport organisation.

Here’s the livery:

Marcus Grönholm's Subaru Impreza WRC for Rally of Portugal

Marcus Grönholm's Subaru Impreza WRC for Rally of Portugal