2009 Rally Norway

2009 Rally Norway 3rd Rally Norway 2 2009 World Rally Championship 2009 Rally Ireland 2009 Cyprus Rally Norway Norway Vikingskipet-Hamar.jpg Vikingskipet Olympic Arena in Hamar, which served as depot. Hamar, Norway February 12 February 15, 2009 23 361.12 Ice/Snow covered Gravel FRA Sébastien Loeb FRA Citroën Total World Rally Team 42 35 The 2009 Rally Norway, officially 3rd Rally Norway, is the second round of the 2009 World Rally Championship season and the first round of the Production World Rally Championship and is held between February 12 and February 15, 2009. The rally was held on ice- and snow-covered gravel roads between Oslo and Hamar. Rally Norway returned to the calendar in 2009 Season after a years absence. This is the Snow Rally of the season. Historically, the Swedish Rally has usually been the rally held on snow in every WRC Season except 1974 and 1990 due to cancellation, 1994 when it was only part of the FIA 2-Litre World Cup for Manufacturers. Petter Solberg, driving a Citroën Xsara WRC car, won the first stage of the rally. But Sébastien Loeb of France won in a Citroën C4 WRC, his second win on snow since the 2004 Swedish Rally, remaining only non-Scandinavian rally driver ever to win a Snow Rally. Loeb finished ahead of Mikko Hirvonen by +9.8 seconds. Jari Matti Latvala finished third, despite having spun on the last stage on the second running of the Budor. The highest placed Norwegian driver was Henning Solberg in fourth, who was in a tight battle for the position with Dani Sordo. Sordo had held the position for most of the stages until SS14 Mountain 2, where Solberg passed Sordo for fourth place. Both were under pressure from Swede P-G Andersson, on board a privately entered Škoda Fabia WRC, who passed Solberg at SS7 Finnskogen 2. Andersson had to retire at SS12 Ringsaker 1 when he broke his clutch after hitting a snow bank. Solberg finished in sixth in one peace, although he doubted his clutch would last until the end. He was in a tight battle with Matthew Wilson of Great Britain, who finished in seventh place, ahead of Urmo Aava in eighth who collected his first point of the season.http://www.wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=101&id=4017&desc=Sebastien%20Loeb%20wins%20Rally%20Norway%20for%20Citroen! Sebastien Loeb wins Rally Norway for Citroen! 2009-02-16 2009-02-16 WRC.com https://web.archive.org/web/20100116143415/http://wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=101&id=4017&desc=Sebastien%20Loeb%20wins%20Rally%20Norway%20for%20Citroen! 2010-01-16 dead http://www.rallynorway.com/en/news/loeb-wins-rally-norway-2009.html Ecstatic Loeb wins Rally Norway 2009-02-16 2009-02-16 www.rallynorway.com https://web.archive.org/web/20090219071057/http://www.rallynorway.com/en/news/loeb-wins-rally-norway-2009.html 19 February 2009 dead dmy-all This rally marks the opening Round of the PWRC Season and as the WRC supporting event. Previously, the JWRC was the supporting event in 2007. Swede Patrik Sandell won the class. Eyvind Brynildsen and his co-driver Denis Giraudet, Didier Auriol's former co-driver finished second. Czech Martin Prokop finished in third place ahead of Armindo Araujo. Andis Neiksans of Latvia finished fifth ahead of Jaromir Tarabus in sixth.http://www.wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=101&id=4022&desc=Sandell%20takes%20historic%20P-WRC%20win Sandell takes historic P-WRC win 2009-02-16 2009-02-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20090219033235/http://wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=101&id=4022&desc=Sandell%20takes%20historic%20P-WRC%20win 19 February 2009 dead Results Pos. Driver Co-driver Car Time Difference Points WRC 1. FRA Sébastien Loeb MCO Daniel Elena Citroën C4 WRC 3:28:15.9 10 2. FIN Mikko Hirvonen FIN Jarmo Lehtinen Ford Focus RS WRC 08 3:28:25.7 +9.8 8 3. FIN Jari-Matti Latvala FIN Miikka Anttila Ford Focus RS WRC 08 3:29:37.7 +1:21.8 6 4. NOR Henning Solberg NOR Cato Menkerud Ford Focus RS WRC 08 3:31:49.4 +3:33.5 5 5. ESP Dani Sordo ESP Marc Marti Citroën C4 WRC 3:32:07.9 +3:52.0 4 6. NOR Petter Solberg GBR Phil Mills Citroën Xsara WRC 3:34:41.3 +6:25.4 3 7. GBR Matthew Wilson GBR Scott Martin Ford Focus RS WRC 08 3:34:51.5 +6:35.6 2 8. EST Urmo Aava EST Kuldar Sikk Ford Focus RS WRC 08 3:35:05.0 +6:49.1 1 PWRC 1. (13.) SWE Patrik Sandell SWE Emil AxelssonŠkoda Fabia Super 2000 3:49:43.6 10 2. (14.) NOR Eyvind Brynildsen FRA Denis Giraudet Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 3:50:27.7 +44.1 8 3. (16.) CZE Martin Prokop CZE Jan Tománek Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 3:52:40.3 +2:56.7 6 4. (17.) POR Armindo Araujo POR Miguel Ramalho Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 3:53:40.6 +3:57.0 5 5. (18.) LAT Andis Neiksans LAT Peteris Dzirkals Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4:00:23.5 +10:39.9 4 6. (20.) CZE Jaromir Tarabus CZE Daniel Trunkat Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000 4:02:33.1 +12:49.5 3 7. (26.) SWE Patrik Flodin SWE Göran Bergsten Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4:10:01.1 +20:17.5 2 8. (30.) FRA Frederic Sauvan FRA Thibault Gorczyca Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4:24:48.0 +35:04.4 1 Special stages DayStageTime (CET)NameLengthWinnerTimeAvg. spd.Rally leader 1(12 FEB) SS1 20:04 Oslo 1.92 km NOR Petter Solberg 1:32.8 74.5 km/h NOR Petter Solberg 2(13 FEB) SS2 09:03 Opaker 1 14.62 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 8:06.0 108.3 km/h FIN Mikko Hirvonen SS3 09:39 Kirkenær 1 8.0 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 6:36.8 72.6 km/h FRA Sébastien Loeb SS4 10:19 Finnskogen 1 20.87 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 11:55.4 105.0 km/h FIN Mikko Hirvonen SS5 11:13 Kongsvinger 1 13.45 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 8:56.9 90.2 km/h SS6 12:45 Opaker 2 14.62 km SWE Per-Gunnar Andersson 8:11.2 107.1 km/h SS7 13:51 Finnskogen 2 20.87 km SWE Per-Gunnar Andersson 11:58.9 104.5 km/h SS8 14:45 Kongsvinger 2 13.45 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 9:10.3 88.0 km/h SS9 15:46 Kirkenær 2 8.0 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 6:55.0 69.46 km/h FRA Sébastien Loeb 3(14 FEB) SS10 07:53 Mountain 1 24.36 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 12:43.3 114.9 km/h SS11 08:58 Lillehammer 1 6.78 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 5:04.8 80.1 km/h SS12 09:58 Ringsaker 1 27.29 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 14:30.8 112.8 km/h SS13 11:04 Hamar 1 1.15 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 1:11.8 57.7 km/h SS14 13:15 Mountain 2 24.36 km NOR Henning Solberg 13:13.4 110.5 km/h SS15 14:20 Lillehammer 2 6.78 km FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 5:15.3 77.4 km/h SS16 15:20 Ringsaker 2 27.29 km FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 15:06.7 108.4 km/h SS17 16:26 Hamar 2 1.15 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 1:14.1 55.9 km/h 4(15 FEB) SS18 07:34 Våler 1 30.03 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 16:07.5 111.7 km/h SS19 08:35 Elverum 1 13.31 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 6:18.9 126.5 km/h SS20 09:23 Budor 1 19.74 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 10:12.3 116.1 km/h SS21 11:59 Våler 2 30.03 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 16:23.4 109.9 km/h SS22 13:00 Elverum 2 13.31 km FIN Mikko Hirvonen 6:24.6 124.6 km/h SS23 13:48 Budor 2 19.74 km FRA Sébastien Loeb 10:24.7 113.8 km/h Championship standings after the event Drivers' championship Pos Driver IRLIreland NORNorway CYPCyprus PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece POLPoland FINFinland AUSAustralia ESPSpain GBRUnited Kingdom  Pts  1 France Sébastien Loeb 1 120 2 Finland Mikko Hirvonen 3 214 3 Spain Dani Sordo 2 512 4 Norway Henning Solberg 4 4 10 5 FIN Jari-Matti Latvala 14 36 6 Australia Chris Atkinson 54 7 GBR Matthew Wilson 7 7 4 8 France Sébastien Ogier 6 103 9 NOR Petter Solberg 6 3 10 EST Urmo Aava 10 8 1 11 UAE Khalid al-Qassimi 8 1 Pos Driver IRLIreland NORNorway CYPCyprus PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece POLPoland FINFinland AUSAustralia ESPSpain GBRUnited Kingdom Pts Manufacturers' championship Rank Driver Event Totalpoints IRLIreland NORNorway CYPCyprus PORPortugal ARGArgentina ITAItaly GRCGreece POLPoland FINFinland AUSAustralia ESPSpain GBRUnited Kingdom 1 France Citroën Total World Rally Team 18 14 32 2 USA BP Ford World Rally Team 8 14 22 United Kingdom Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team 8 8 16 4 France Citroën Junior Team 5 3 8 References External links Results on the official site: WRC.com Results on RallyNorway.com Norway 2009 Rally