Suzuki World Rally Team score another fantastic result to end their season

Wales Rally Great Britain (GB), Sunday 6 December, day three (SS16-SS19)

Suzuki finishes the 2008 season on a high

The Suzuki World Rally Team has finished its debut World Rally Championship
season with the SX4 WRC on a high note, equalling the team’s best-ever
result. Up-and-coming Swede P-G Andersson was fifth at the end of the Wales
Rally GB, matching the result he obtained on the Rally Japan last month.
Toni Gardemeister was… Continue reading

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Wales Rally GB 2008 Day 2 Results and photos: Latvala in front as Loeb sits just behind, plus Chris Atkinson crash videos

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Jari-Matti Latvala continues to lead Wales Rally GB 2008 after Day 2 by only 7.3s from Sebastien Loeb to set up a thrilling final day.

Latvala, though, had a scare before the final stage when the clutch overheated and he was forced to push the car 400 yards to get to the start of the test. Also, he had a slow puncture on the first stage of the… Continue reading

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Suzuki World Rally Team have successful first day on Wales Rally GB

Wales Rally Great Britain (GB), Friday 5 December, day one (SS1-SS8)

Suzuki on the podium at end of day one

On the final event of this year’s World Rally Championship, both the Suzuki
SX4 WRC entries are in the points, confirming the solid progress made
throughout the season. P-G Andersson finished the day in third - Suzuki’s
best-ever result - while his team mate Toni Gardemeister was 11th after
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Wales Rally GB Shakedown 2008 photographs and video of Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo

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Sebastien Loeb was third fastest on today’s Rally GB Shakedown and made some adjustments to the set-up of the C4 in the morning to cope with the slippy conditions.

His team-mate Sordo was fourth fastest and he too focused on the car’s set-up, trying out various settings to see how the C4 reacted. He reduced his shakedown session as the road began to cut up badly.

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Sebastien Loeb rolls on the Wales Rally GB recce in Myherin photos

Sebastien Loeb rolled this morning in icy conditions during the recce for Wales Rally GB on the Myherin stage.

Conditions were paricularly bad and Loeb slipped off the road and rolled down a bank in his road car. The rally begins on Thursday evening with a ceremonial start, then the stages commence on Friday.

Loeb commented to crash.net about his goals for Rally GB:
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Petter Solberg photos testing the 2008 Subaru Impreza WRC in Wales ahead of Rally GB

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Petter Solberg was testing in Wales last week ahead of Rally GB and declared himself reasonably happy as everything went well.

Petter commented on his blog:
I am so looking forward to be driving in Wales again. We have done a lot of improvements on the car since Japan, and everything feels good.”
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