Posts Tagged ‘mitsubishi lancer’

Confirmed: Even Patrik Flodin drives a Mitsubishi Lancer group N in Rally Sweden

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

I revealed a few weeks ago that Patrik Flodin were trying to get a group N entry for Rally Sweden together, and now it’s done! He is now set to start the rally in a group N Mitsubishi with Göran Bergsten as co-driver. The Swedish ace was set aside after last season as the Uspenskiy team got financial troubles – but will now drive Aki Teiskonen’s Mitsubishi Lancer in his home rally. This means we’ll hopefully get a decent fight between home aces PG Andersson and Patrik Flodin in the production class – which will be a boost to all locals during the event.

Patrik Flodin himself, that is now the first ever non-Russian Russian Champion (nice scentence, huh?), says:

- It will be incredibly fun to drive on home soil again. I’m really looking forward to the rally!

Read my interview with Patrik from the 4th of January here

PG Andersson to choose between S2000 and Grp N based on the result in the Norweigan Sigdalsrally this weekend

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Not much have been heard about PG Andersson lately, but in today’s NWT PG says that his drive in the Norweigan Championship round Sigdalsrallyt this weekend (PG made a late entry) will be used to decide if he’s gonna do Rally Sweden in a Super2000 rental car or in his own Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX. PG will drive the Mitsubishi in Norway along with co-driver Anders Fredriksson, since his regular co-driver Jonas Andersson is busy at the side of Mads Östberg.

The whole competition will be a test where PG tries wether he can keep the speed up with Eyvind Brynhildsen in his Skoda Fabia Super2000. PG says that renting a Super2000 car costs twice as much as doing the home rally in his own Mitsubishi – and if he can, he will save the money for later:

- I’ve got the money it takes, but if I can do two rallies instead of one for them I would prefer that, says PG.

Besides the start in Rally Sweden, which now seems to be totally confirmed, PG is looking at entering the IRC round Rally Italia Sardinia in June. For that rally he would rent a Super2000 car. However, the first thing after Sigdalsrallyt for PG is to do ice notes for Guy Wilks in Rally Monte Carlo later this month. As I revealed yesterday, Wilks is expected to confirm his agreement with Skoda UK today announcing a drive in the 2010 IRC.