2009 Rally Norway

2009 Rally Norway 3rd Rally Norway
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Vikingskipet Olympic Arena in Hamar, which served as depot.
Host country	Norway
Rally base	Hamar, Norway
Dates run	February 12 – February 15, 2009
Stages	23 (361.12 km; 224.39 mi)
Stage surface	Ice/Snow covered Gravel
Results
Overall winner	Sébastien Loeb Citroën Total World Rally Team
Crews	42 at start, 35 at finish

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.^[1][2]

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.^[3]

Results

Pos.	Driver	Co-driver	Car	Time	Difference	Points
WRC
1.	Sébastien Loeb	Daniel Elena	Citroën C4 WRC	3:28:15.9		10
2.	Mikko Hirvonen	Jarmo Lehtinen	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	3:28:25.7	+9.8	8
3.	Jari-Matti Latvala	Miikka Anttila	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	3:29:37.7	+1:21.8	6
4.	Henning Solberg	Cato Menkerud	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	3:31:49.4	+3:33.5	5
5.	Dani Sordo	Marc Marti	Citroën C4 WRC	3:32:07.9	+3:52.0	4
6.	Petter Solberg	Phil Mills	Citroën Xsara WRC	3:34:41.3	+6:25.4	3
7.	Matthew Wilson	Scott Martin	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	3:34:51.5	+6:35.6	2
8.	Urmo Aava	Kuldar Sikk	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	3:35:05.0	+6:49.1	1
PWRC
1. (13.)	Patrik Sandell	Emil Axelsson	Škoda Fabia Super 2000	3:49:43.6		10
2. (14.)	Eyvind Brynildsen	Denis Giraudet	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	3:50:27.7	+44.1	8
3. (16.)	Martin Prokop	Jan Tománek	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	3:52:40.3	+2:56.7	6
4. (17.)	Armindo Araujo	Miguel Ramalho	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	3:53:40.6	+3:57.0	5
5. (18.)	Andis Neiksans	Peteris Dzirkals	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	4:00:23.5	+10:39.9	4
6. (20.)	Jaromir Tarabus	Daniel Trunkat	Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000	4:02:33.1	+12:49.5	3
7. (26.)	Patrik Flodin	Göran Bergsten	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	4:10:01.1	+20:17.5	2
8. (30.)	Frederic Sauvan	Thibault Gorczyca	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	4:24:48.0	+35:04.4	1

Special stages

Day	Stage	Time (CET)	Name	Length	Winner	Time	Avg. spd.	Rally leader
1 (12 FEB)	SS1	20:04	Oslo	1.92 km	Petter Solberg	1:32.8	74.5 km/h	Petter Solberg
2 (13 FEB)	SS2	09:03	Opaker 1	14.62 km	Mikko Hirvonen	8:06.0	108.3 km/h	Mikko Hirvonen
	SS3	09:39	Kirkenær 1	8.0 km	Sébastien Loeb	6:36.8	72.6 km/h	Sébastien Loeb
	SS4	10:19	Finnskogen 1	20.87 km	Mikko Hirvonen	11:55.4	105.0 km/h	Mikko Hirvonen
	SS5	11:13	Kongsvinger 1	13.45 km	Mikko Hirvonen	8:56.9	90.2 km/h
	SS6	12:45	Opaker 2	14.62 km	Per-Gunnar Andersson	8:11.2	107.1 km/h
	SS7	13:51	Finnskogen 2	20.87 km	Per-Gunnar Andersson	11:58.9	104.5 km/h
	SS8	14:45	Kongsvinger 2	13.45 km	Mikko Hirvonen	9:10.3	88.0 km/h
	SS9	15:46	Kirkenær 2	8.0 km	Sébastien Loeb	6:55.0	69.46 km/h	Sébastien Loeb
3 (14 FEB)	SS10	07:53	Mountain 1	24.36 km	Sébastien Loeb	12:43.3	114.9 km/h
	SS11	08:58	Lillehammer 1	6.78 km	Sébastien Loeb	5:04.8	80.1 km/h
	SS12	09:58	Ringsaker 1	27.29 km	Sébastien Loeb	14:30.8	112.8 km/h
	SS13	11:04	Hamar 1	1.15 km	Sébastien Loeb	1:11.8	57.7 km/h
	SS14	13:15	Mountain 2	24.36 km	Henning Solberg	13:13.4	110.5 km/h
	SS15	14:20	Lillehammer 2	6.78 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	5:15.3	77.4 km/h
	SS16	15:20	Ringsaker 2	27.29 km	Jari-Matti Latvala	15:06.7	108.4 km/h
	SS17	16:26	Hamar 2	1.15 km	Sébastien Loeb	1:14.1	55.9 km/h
4 (15 FEB)	SS18	07:34	Våler 1	30.03 km	Mikko Hirvonen	16:07.5	111.7 km/h
	SS19	08:35	Elverum 1	13.31 km	Sébastien Loeb	6:18.9	126.5 km/h
	SS20	09:23	Budor 1	19.74 km	Mikko Hirvonen	10:12.3	116.1 km/h
	SS21	11:59	Våler 2	30.03 km	Mikko Hirvonen	16:23.4	109.9 km/h
	SS22	13:00	Elverum 2	13.31 km	Mikko Hirvonen	6:24.6	124.6 km/h
	SS23	13:48	Budor 2	19.74 km	Sébastien Loeb	10:24.7	113.8 km/h

Championship standings after the event

Drivers' championship

Pos Driver IRL NOR CYP POR ARG ITA GRC POL FIN AUS ESP GBR  Pts  1 Sébastien Loeb 1 1 20 2 Mikko Hirvonen 3 2 14 3 Dani Sordo 2 5 12 4 Henning Solberg 4 4 10 5 Jari-Matti Latvala 14 3 6 6 Chris Atkinson 5 4 7 Matthew Wilson 7 7 4 8 Sébastien Ogier 6 10 3 9 Petter Solberg 6 3 10 Urmo Aava 10 8 1 11 Khalid al-Qassimi 8 1 Pos Driver IRL NOR CYP POR ARG ITA GRC POL FIN AUS ESP GBR Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Blank Withdrew entry before the event (WD)

Manufacturers' championship

Rank	Driver	Event												Total points
		IRL	NOR	CYP	POR	ARG	ITA	GRC	POL	FIN	AUS	ESP	GBR
1	Citroën Total World Rally Team	18	14											32
2	BP Ford World Rally Team	8	14											22
	Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team	8	8											16
4	Citroën Junior Team	5	3											8

References

1. "Sebastien Loeb wins Rally Norway for Citroen!". WRC.com. 2009-02-16. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
2. "Ecstatic Loeb wins Rally Norway". www.rallynorway.com. 2009-02-16. Archived from the original on 19 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
3. "Sandell takes historic P-WRC win". 2009-02-16. Archived from the original on 19 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-16.

External links

• Results on the official site: WRC.com
• Results on RallyNorway.com