World rally champion Sebastien Loeb warmed up for Rally Sweden yesterday by testing in northern Värmland. Loeb did a full day test arranged by Citroen and former Citroën driver Thomas Rådström. At the afternoon, even Kimi Räikkönen showed up and did two rounds with Sebastien in the co-driver seat of the car. However, Kimi was there as a private person and didn’t do any tests himself.
Source: VF
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.
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.
Petter Solberg is testing his Citroen C4WRC near Torsby in Värmland today. Photo: PSWRT
Petter Solberg just updated his blog with the following quote:
- Just did the first run, and this car is just unbelieveable! It’s totally different from the car I had last year. I mean, the balance is so good and the grip is amazing. Just one thing to say now; Rally Sweden – here I come!
It’s interesting to see that Petter is so happy immediately, since it means that he maybe really have managed to get the right stuff out of the Citroën factory – something that almost no privateer has previously managed to do. Citroën have always been very keen of protecting their works drivers from concurrence by providing engine mappings and parts that has obviously been not as good as the works stuff. Ask Petter about last year, Manfred Stohl, Daniel Carlsson and many other people…
If Petter has the right stuff – he can finally become a contender again and maybe be one of the guys on top in the championship. That would be an amazing boost to the WRC. However, still that’s just dreams, but let’s hope for more good reports from Petter.
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 |
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