SWEDISH RALLY PREVIEW
 
The Swedish Rally opens this year's Production Rally Championship. The Nordic round is the only one with fully snow covered roads and it remains very much a place for specialists with Swedish and Finnish drivers as the likely winners due to their better knowledge of the kind of driving required on such extremely fast and slippery surfaces. In fact the very high speeds are another special feature of this event, in 2003 the winning average was 118 kph, second only to the Finnish Rally among the WRC events.
   
     PROGRAMME
 
1st Leg : Friday 6th February 2004
07h40: Service area A (Hagfors)
08h22: SS1 LIDSBRON 1 (19,59 km)
09h34: SS2 TORNTORP (19,21 km)
10h08: Service area B (Hagfors)
11h37: SS3 GRANBERGET 1 (52,57 km)
13h16: Assembly area (Hagfors)
13h36: Service area C (Hagfors)
15h05: SS4 GRANBERGET 2 (52,57 km)
17h04: SS5 HAGFORS SPRINT 1 (1,86 km)
17h30: Service area D (Hagfors)		 2nd Leg: Saturday 7th February 2004
06h40: Service area E (Hagfors)
07h46: SS6 SUNDSJON 1 (20,78 km)
08h22: SS7 MALTA 1 (11,25 km)
08h47: Service area F (Hagfors)
10h18: SS8 FREDRIKSBERG (20,13 km)
11h05: SS9 LEJEN (26,40 km)
12h34: Assembly area (Hagfors)
12h44: Service area G (Hagfors)
13h32: SS10 MALTA 2 (11,25 km)
14:27: SS11 SUNDSJON 2 (20,78 km)
15h00: Service area H (Hagfors)
15h46: SS12 VARGASEN (39,95 km)
17h11: SS13 HAGFORS SPRINT 2 (1,86 km)
17h37: Service area I (Hagfors)
 3rd Leg: Sunday 8th February 2004
06h40 : Service area J (Hagfors)
08h04 : SS14 SAGEN 1 (14,17 km)
08h54 : SS15 RAMMEN 1 (23,35 km)
10h06 : SS16 HARA 1 (10,78 km)
10h44 : Assembly area (Hagfors)
10h54 : Service area K (Hagfors')
12h18 : SS 17 SAGEN 2 (14,17 km)
13h08 : SS 18 RAMMEN 2 (23,35 km)
14h20 : SS 19 HARA 2 (10,78 km)
14h58 : Service area L (Hagfors)
16h38 : Event finish
For more information visit the rallye official website: www.swedishrally.com
   
 
   IN SERGIO'S VIEW
 
"The Swedish Rally is a very special event because it's the only "snow" round of the championship, I've always dreamt of competing there so I'm really looking forward to the start.
Obviously, given that it's our maiden run in the series, and especially given how difficult this rally is, our only target is to finish, gather experience and start to learn about the World Championship and how the rallies in this series are run. We know that it will be impossible to be near to the top drivers and we'll try to adapt our driving to the race conditions and keep improving our pace."
 
 
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