The lack of snow in Sweden this year, unlike last year led to shuffle the cards somewhat in the strategy of teams participating in the second round of the World Championship for rally where the stages were not covered completely with snow which had a negative impact on the cohesion of snow tires where these tires have nails to stuck in the road surface during driving. Despite this difficult factor, the driver of international Citroen Total Abu Dhabi team for Rally which is MadsOstberg from Norway with his navigatorwhich is Jonas Andersson from Sweden knew how to steal lights of Sweden rally early where they achieved the fastest time on Citroen DS 3 WRC car during theofficial free practices and these practices in therally’s language are known as “Checkdown”.
Ostbergwhich is a specialist in the snow rallies said at a press conference which was held specially for this event that he is really taken a lot of excitement in difficult circumstances such as the Sweden rally, and his results with the Citroen Total Abu Dhabiteam in Monte Carlo rally has increased his confidence and gave him the motivation to achieve more excellent results. He was very happy with theperformance of the car and he felt great behind itssteering wheel and he will do everything he can to end the Swedenrallyto reach the podium but there is something calling him to compete to win the race where he really wants to win, and the Abu Dhabi team wants to win as well and he think that their fans all over the world want this win too but he and his team must be very caution with the tires of the car.
It is worth mentioning that Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi has demonstrated a greatperformance during the first period of this great race where he was faster than Robert Kubica, Hirvonen and Mikkelsen. However, the Emirati driver preferred not to pressure where he said: “I am very happy with my participation in the Rally of Sweden and also the performance of the car in addition to my outstanding navigatorwhich is Chris Paterson who gives me a lot of experience but we prefer not to pressure and deliberation somewhat . As for Chris Mick, he must follow the caution strategy and finishing the rally with good result because there is no need to risk especially that this ishis first rally on snow. As for MadsOstberg, he is a specialist in this kind of rallies and he can pressure very well and I hope to see him competes for the title of the Swedenrally this year”.
