Monday, February 18, 2019

WRC 2019: Rally Sweden

The 2019 World Rally Championship continues at Torsby, Sweden, for the Rally Sweden event where the world's best rally drivers are trying to maintain their cool while ravaging through the coldest, harshest stages Scandinavia throws at them.


Beginning with Friday's stages, Teemu Suninen led the WRC round for the first time when he barged through the final 8.93km speed test with his Ford Fiesta’s front light pod flapping across the bonnet and obscuring his vision. With reduced lighting, Suninen swiped several snowbanks but kept cool as Ott Tänak ate into a 13.0sec deficit. At Saturday stages, Toyota driver Ott Tanak regained his lead following Suninen's retirement after crashing into a tree and damaging the car's safety roll cage. And on Sunday stages, Ott Tanak wins the Rally Sweden with the overall time of 2:47.30.0, 53.7 seconds ahead of Esapekka Lappi and 56.7 ahead of third placer Thierry Neuville of Hyundai.

/Highlights:

The 2019 WRC continues at Mexico for the Rally Guanajuato Mexico from the 7th to the 10th of March, 2019.

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