The first and only winter event in the 13-round 2010 World Rally Championship (WRC), the three-day Rally of Sweden introduces a number of new elements to this year’s competition that starts with a 345 kilometre journey of snow-lined roads.
When the World Rally Championship returns to New Zealand in May this year, SKYCITY Auckland will provide Rally New Zealand’s home-base in central Auckland, something that last happened in 2004.
Today, at the launch event for the 2010 FIA World Rally Championship season, Promoter North One Sport announces a raft of developments to mark the dawning of a new era for the sport and unveils breaking news on growing audience figures and new television deals for the WRC.
The Ford Focus RS World Rally Car that saved Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila from serious injury during a violent crash in Portugal last season will return to competition in the opening round of the 2010 FIA World Rally Championship in Sweden next week. Such is the car's strength that, despite plunging almost 200 metres down a hillside when it rolled 12 times, it has been rebuilt by the BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally team for Rally Sweden – with Latvala and Anttila again behind the wheel.
Defending champion warns that this year's Swedish conditions could favour the Finns more...
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