This
morning’s final leg of Rally Sweden featured three timed stages. Fourth overall
at the start of the day, Mads Østberg ran into trouble on Lesjöfors. He lost
control of his DS 3 WRC, got stuck in a snow bank and it took him over five
minutes to get going again.
He dropped down to tenth
overall, whilst his team-mate Kris Meeke moved in the opposite direction. Ninth
overall as he left parc ferme, Northern Ireland’s finest was up to eighth after
SS19 and was seventh by the end of SS20.
On the Power Stage, Kris
continued to push. Involved in a scrap for sixth place with Elfyn Evans, he spun
midway through the stage but managed to hold onto seventh position.
Kris Meeke: “In Sweden, you have to
be very clean through the stages, but I got caught out a few times.
Nevertheless, winning a stage on only my second appearance here on the snow is
a fairly encouraging sign. My pace has improved significantly compared with
last year. I feel comfortable in the DS 3 WRC. I have to keep doing the same
thing and cut out the errors. In Mexico, we have to get to the end of the rally
without any mistakes.”
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