The Rally of Sweden 2022 officially opened with the shakedown staged in Klabböle, the first stage of the only round on the calendar that includes snowy trails. The latter, who have historically favored the Scandinavian school pilots, confirmed the rule even at the end of the first day, with the best time signed by the Finnish Kalle Rovamperä. The pilot of the Toyotain fact, he stopped the clock on the time of 3: 22.4, established at the end of a 7.59 km long test. Behind the 21-year-old came the Estonian Ott Tanakjoint 2nd in behind the wheel of the Hyundai and with a delay of 3 tenths from the top of the ranking. At the same time, Tanak still detached his teammate Thierry Neuvillewith the Belgian finishing 3rd almost a second behind.
A position, that of Neuville, conditioned by a mistake made by the winner of the 2018 edition, with the latter losing control of his car ending up under a snowdrift, in a dynamic very similar to that involving Craig Breen , also the protagonist of a road exit. In any case, the real battle with the stopwatch will begin on Friday 25 February, with the opening – at 08:40 – of the first stage in Kroksjö, there where Rovamperä will inaugurate the session by starting first when the traffic lights come on. green: “The feeling today was quite positive – said the Toyota driver in a statement reported by wrc.com – the rain helped freeze the road a little more, and the first pass wasn’t that bad. Of course, the conditions in the second pass are always difficult due to the snow, and tomorrow we will need to find some compromise. We still don’t know what the conditions will be, but if the road freezes after the rain, then it could be good for us to open the round. “
POSITION | PILOT | TEAM | BETTER TIME |
1 | ROVANPERÄ / HALTTUNEN | Toyota | 3: 22.4 |
2 | TÄNAK / JARVEOJA | Hyundai | 3: 22.7 |
3 | NEUVILLE / WYDAEGHE | Hyundai | 3: 23.2 |
4 | KATSUTA / JOHNSTON | Toyota | 3: 23.6 |
5 | BREEN / NAGLE | Ford | 3: 24.7 |
6 | GREENSMITH / ANDERSSON | Ford | 3: 35.1 |
7 | EVANS / MARTIN | Toyota | 3: 25.4 |
8 | SOLBERG / EDMONDSON | Hyundai | 3: 25.4 |
9 | LAPPI / FERM | Toyota | 3: 35.7 |
10 | FOURMAUX / CORIA | Ford | 3: 30.7 |
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