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Stobart Group chief investigates ‘Green’ motoring opportunities 

Stobart Group chief investigates ‘Green’ motoring opportunities 
2009-02-19 – Stobart Group Chief Executive Andrew Tinkler used his visit to Rally Norway to further explore the use of ‘green’ motoring technology. Read more...

Post event FIA Press Conference

Post event FIA Press Conference
2009-02-15 – Post event FIA Press Conference transcript Read more...

Ecstatic Loeb wins Rally Norway

Ecstatic Loeb wins Rally Norway
2009-02-15 – Sebastien Loeb won his 49th victory in the WRC with his victory in Rally Norway 2009. An ecstatic Loeb was extremly happy to win this difficult winter-rally. Read more...

Drivers' comments at Service Park H

Drivers' comments at Service Park H
2009-02-15 – The drivers’ comments from Service Park H Read more...

ES20 Budor 1

ES20 Budor 1
2009-02-15 – Commentaires de fin de spéciale : ES20 Budor 1 Read more...

End of stage comment from SS20 Budor 1

End of stage comment from SS20 Budor 1
2009-02-15 – Drivers’ quotes from SS20 Budor 1 Read more...

ES19 Elverum 1

ES19 Elverum 1
2009-02-15 – Commentaires de fin de spéciale : ES19 Elverum 1 Read more...

End of stage comments SS19 Elverum 1

End of stage comments SS19 Elverum 1
2009-02-15 – Drivers’ quotes from SS19 Elverum 1 Read more...

Rally Norway - after stage 20, Budor 1

Rally Norway - after stage 20, Budor 1
2009-02-15 – The fierce battle for supremacy on this second round of the FIA World Rally Championship continued unabated this morning as competitors departed Hamar in darkness for the longest day of the rally. Read more...

Henning Solberg Remain on Course

Henning Solberg Remain on Course
2009-02-15 – Henning Solberg/Cato Menkerud started the final day where they left off on leg two, posting top four stage times and extending their lead over Dani Sordo in fifth place to 21.8 seconds. The Norwegian speedster will now try to maintain that gap over the final three stages and score a superb result on his home round. Read more...

ES18 Våler 1

ES18 Våler 1
2009-02-15 – Météo et conditions de route : il fait froid -24 ce matin. La visibilité est bonne, la route couverte de glace avec une couche de neige en surface. Read more...

End of stage report from SS18 Våler 1

End of stage report from SS18 Våler 1
2009-02-15 – Weather and Road conditions: cold -24°C in the morning. Good visibility, icy surface with a lay of snow on top. Read more...

Henning on Fire on Norway’s Snow and Ice

Henning on Fire on Norway’s Snow and Ice
2009-02-15 – Henning Solberg produced a magnificent performance to finish the second full day at Rally Norway in fourth position. Read more...

End of stage comments: SS 17 Hamar 2

End of stage comments: SS 17 Hamar 2
2009-02-14 – Drivers’ quotes from SS 17 Hamar 2 Read more...

End of stage comments: SS 16 Ringsaker 2

End of stage comments: SS 16 Ringsaker 2
2009-02-14 – End of stage comments from SS 16 Ringsaker 2 Read more...

Start List Day 3

Start List Day 3
2009-02-14 – The Start List for Day 3 is now published. Download Start List Day 3

Drivers’ comments from SS 15 Lillehammer 2

Drivers’ comments from SS 15 Lillehammer 2
2009-02-14 – End of stage comments from SS 15 Lillehammer 2 Read more...

Drivers' comments from SS 14 Mountain 2

Drivers' comments from SS 14 Mountain 2
2009-02-14 – End of stage comments from SS 14 Mountain 2 Read more...

Drivers' comments at Service Park E

Drivers' comments at Service Park E
2009-02-14 – The drivers’ comments at Service Park E Read more...

End of stage comments SS13 Hamar 1

End of stage comments SS13 Hamar 1
2009-02-14 – Drivers’ comments from SS13 Hamar 1 Read more...

End of stage comments from SS12 Ringsaker 1

End of stage comments from SS12 Ringsaker 1
2009-02-14 – Drivers’ comments from SS12 Ringsaker 1 Read more...

End of stage comments SS11 Lillehammer 1

End of stage comments SS11 Lillehammer 1
2009-02-14 – Driver’ quotes from SS11 Lillehammer 1 Read more...

ES10 Mountain 1

ES10 Mountain 1
2009-02-14 – Commentaires de fin de spéciale : ES10 Mountain 1 Read more...

End of stage report from SS10 Mountain 1

End of stage report from SS10 Mountain 1
2009-02-14 – End of stage report with drivers’ quotes Read more...

Service Flash

Service Flash
2009-02-13 – Driver’ comments at service C Read more...

Drivers’ Comments from SS9 Kirkenær 2

Drivers’ Comments from SS9 Kirkenær 2
2009-02-13 – Drivers’ end of stage comments from SS9 Kirkenær 2 Read more...

Drivers' Comments: SS8 Kongsvinger 2

Drivers' Comments: SS8 Kongsvinger 2
2009-02-13 – Drivers' end of stage comments from SS8 Kongsvinger 2 Read more...

Start List Day 2

Start List Day 2
2009-02-13 – The Start List for Day 2 is now published. Download Start List Day 2

Drivers' Comments from Remote Service B (Kongsvinger)

Drivers' Comments from Remote Service B (Kongsvinger)
2009-02-13 – Drivers' Comments from todays Remote Service B at Kongsvinger Read more...

Norwegian PM Backs Green Rally

Norwegian PM Backs Green Rally
2009-02-13 – Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg joined five time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb yesterday to promote a series of environmental initiatives at this weekend’s carbon-neutral Rally Norway event. Read more...

End of stage comments: SS6 Opaker 2

End of stage comments: SS6 Opaker 2
2009-02-13 – The drivers’ end of stage comments from SS6 Opaker 2 Read more...

End of stage: SS5 Kongsvinger

End of stage: SS5 Kongsvinger
2009-02-13 – Drivers’ comments from SS5 Kongsvinger Read more...

End of stage reports - SS 4 Finnskogen 1

End of stage reports - SS 4 Finnskogen 1
2009-02-13 – End of stage reports and driver’ quotes from SS4 Finnskogen 1 Read more...

Drivers' Comments SS3 Kirkenær 1

Drivers' Comments SS3 Kirkenær 1
2009-02-13 – End of stage comments from the drivers after SS3 Kirkenær 1 Read more...

End of Stage Report - SS2 Opaker 1

End of Stage Report - SS2 Opaker 1
2009-02-13 – Weather and road conditions: full snow. Temperature: -18°C. Road is eventually becoming cleaner as cars pass. Excellent visibility, clear sky. Read more...

Drivers' Quotes - SSS1 Oslo

Drivers' Quotes - SSS1 Oslo
2009-02-13 – Drivers’ quotes from the very first stage of Rally Norway 2009 Read more...

Petter celebrated first stage

Petter celebrated first stage
2009-02-12 – Petter Solberg left everyone else in his snowspray and took victory in the opening of Rally Norway 2009 at Bjerkebanen on 12 February. Mikko Hirvonen and Sebastien Loeb finished a few tenths behind. Read more...

Rally Norway - after stage 1, Oslo

Rally Norway - after stage 1, Oslo
2009-02-12 – Capacity crowds braved the biting cold at Oslo's Bjerkebanen horse trotting track tonight as Rally Norway, second round of the FIA World Rally Championship, blasted into top gear. Read more...

Five Minute Penalty for Arai

Five Minute Penalty for Arai
2009-02-12 – Twice world Production Car rally champion Toshi Arai starts Rally Norway with a five minute penalty. Read more...

Pre-event FIA Press Conference

Pre-event FIA Press Conference
2009-02-12 – Pre-event FIA Press Conference 12. february 2009 transcript. Read more...

The ongoing brother duel

The ongoing brother duel
2009-02-12 – It’s always been serious and neither wants to lose when Henning and Petter Solberg meet on the roads. Read more...

15 years since the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics opening ceremony

15 years since the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
2009-02-12 – The opening of Norway’s second WRC round at Bjerkebanen coincides with the 15 year anniversary of the opening ceremony for the legendary 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics. Now, as then, the landscape is decorated in the finest magical winter conditions you can imagine. Read more...

Rally stars sign up for the environment

Rally stars sign up for the environment
2009-02-12 – After driving Friday’s special stages, Petter Solberg, Henning Solberg and Sébastien Loeb will sign autographs in Rally Norways environmental exhibition, the “Green Room” at the Scandic hotel in Hamar. Read more...

Start Lists Day 1

Start Lists Day 1
2009-02-12 – Start lists for Day 1, section 1 and 2 are available here. Read more...

Fantastic conditions

Fantastic conditions
2009-02-12 – ”Any driver who complains about the conditions here should have stayed put at home,” Ford Manager Malcolm Wilson said categorically ahead of the start of Rally Norway. Read more...

Hirvonen will win again

Hirvonen will win again
2009-02-12 – Finnish Mikko Hirvonen is in no doubt - he will win Rally Norway just like he did in 2007. Read more...

Norway's "Winter Dakar" Rallies Behind the Climate Neutral Call

Norway's
2009-02-12 – Rally Norway, the country’s round of World Rally Championship which kicks off today, is among the major sporting events around the world to join the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), an initiative led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global action and involvement towards low-carbon economies and societies. Read more...

Shakedown Results

Shakedown Results
2009-02-12 – Results from Shakedown 2009. Updated: 13:18 Download Shakedown Results

Norway’s Prime Minister to co-drive with Loeb

Norway’s Prime Minister to co-drive with Loeb
2009-02-10 – Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg will tear round the track with five times World Champion Sébastien Loeb in a Citroën C4 hybrid WRC car when Rally Norway opens at Bjerkebanen in Oslo this Thursday 12 February. Read more...

Marcus Grönholm tests Kongsvinger stage

Marcus Grönholm tests Kongsvinger stage
2009-02-10 – The WRC Champion of 2000 and 2002 was mightily excited after trying out the newly developed Kongsvinger Arena, which hostsSS5 and SS8 in Rally Norway on Friday 13 February. Read more...

Petter launches own team

Petter launches own team
2009-02-06 – In little more than a month Petter Solberg has assembled his very own WRC team and the original Solberg energy was there for all to see and experience today when he proudly introduced his team and new Citroën Xsara WRC in his home town of Spydeberg. Read more...

A challenge for Citroën in Viking territory

A challenge for Citroën in Viking territory
2009-02-06 – In the wake of its one-two finish in Ireland, the Citroën Total World Rally Team heads for Norway. The specific features of the season's only winter fixture makes it a unique challenge for Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena and Dani Sordo/Marc Marti. Read more...

Stobart’s Solberg Seeks Success on Snow Stages

Stobart’s Solberg Seeks Success on Snow Stages
2009-02-06 – Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team driver Henning Solberg is gunning for victory at his home round of the FIA World Rally Championship, Rally Norway. Read more...

Rally Norway 2009 Winter Landscape

Rally Norway 2009 Winter Landscape
2009-02-05 – Here are some pictures of the landscape which in a few days will host Rally Norway 2009. Read more...

Semerad’s PWRC Hopes

Semerad’s PWRC Hopes
2009-02-04 – 18 year old joint European Pirelli Star Driver Martin Semerad begins his Production Car championship challenge in Rally Norway, at the wheel of a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX. Read more...

Sandell’s exciting debut

Sandell’s exciting debut
2009-02-04 – Patrik Sandell and his co-driver Emil Axelsson are set for an exciting debut at Rally Norway. The Junior Champion of 2006 will be driving a Skoda Fabia Super 2000 this year and Norway is his first rally of 2009. Read more...

Active Transmission for Petter in Norway

Active Transmission for Petter in Norway
2009-02-03 – Petter Solberg has received confirmation from the FIA that he is allowed to use active transmission systems on the Citroen Xsara World Rally car which he is to drive on Rally Norway. Read more...

Great season start for Henning Solberg

Great season start for Henning Solberg
2009-02-03 – He could be the winner of Rally Norway judging on Henning Solberg’s form in Rally Ireland last week. A fourth place on asphalt was a great result for the Norwegian and he is eager to continue to the show of form on home ground, which is more familiarly ice and snow. Read more...

Andreas Mikkelsen & Team Uspenskiey Rally Tecnica

Andreas Mikkelsen & Team Uspenskiey Rally Tecnica
2009-02-03 – Andreas Mikkelsen and co-driver Ola Fløene will drive for Russian team, Team Uspenskiey Rally Tecnica, in the forthcoming Rally Norway WRC round. Swedish Patrik Flodin drives for the same team and won the most recent round of the Russian rally championship. Read more...

Unsure about winter conditions in Norway

Unsure about winter conditions in Norway
2009-02-03 – Last year’s Junior World Champion and this year’s winner of Rally Monte Carlo, Sebastien Ogier, took home his first World Championship points in the WRC class with a 6th place in Rally Ireland. The Frenchman is now wondering what driving in Norwegian winter conditions will be like. Read more...

Ready for revenge in Norway

Ready for revenge in Norway
2009-02-03 – Rally Ireland was a disappointment for Finnish Ford team-mates Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila, but they are ready for revenge in Rally Norway. Read more...

Rally Norway 2009 Stage Conditions

Rally Norway 2009 Stage Conditions
2009-02-02 – Rally Norway 2009 is approaching and the conditions at the stages are just perfect. But don’t take our word for it, here are pictures from the stages taken this weekend. Read more...

Rally sport at a turning point

Rally sport at a turning point
2009-02-02 – Morrie Chandler President of the FIA's World Rally Championship Commission (WRCC) talks about rallying now, the turning point in the sport. He will visit Rally Norway 2009. Read more...

ISC to become World Rally Championship Promoter

ISC to become World Rally Championship Promoter
2009-01-30 – North One Television and its subsidiary International Sportsworld Communicators Limited (ISC) have concluded a long term agreement with the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) for the World Rally Championship. Read more...

Spectacular opening show at Bjerkebanen 12 February

Spectacular opening show at Bjerkebanen 12 February
2009-01-28 – Breath taking stunts in Freestyle Motocross and Snowmobilecross will keep spectators on the edge of their seats at Rally Norway’s opening ceremony at Bjerke Racecourse Thursday 12 February. Read more...

WRC level Norwegian Subaru entry

WRC level Norwegian Subaru entry
2009-01-28 – Norwegians Mads Østberg and Ole Kristian Unnerud have already made it known that they will enter Rally Norway in the newest Subaru Impreza WRC but today the Adapta World Rally Team announced they are adding a second car with fellow Norwegian Anders Grøndal and co-driver Maria Andersson from Sweden in the forthcoming Rally Norway WRC round. Read more...

Sandell enters Skoda in the P-WRC

Sandell enters Skoda in the P-WRC
2009-01-26 – Patrik Sandell went to Monte Carlo to check out the performance of the Skoda Fabia Super 2000. Three weeks later he is to become the first independent competitor to use this new car when he starts Rally Norway on 12 February. Read more...

Petter to drive Citroën in Rally Norway

Petter to drive Citroën in Rally Norway
2009-01-26 – Petter Solberg has confirmed on his official website that he will drive a Citroën Xsara in upcoming Rally Norway, ending weeks of speculation following Subaru’s pre-Christmas announcement to withdraw from WRC with immediate effect. Read more...

Rally Norway delivers environmental challenge to challengers

Rally Norway delivers environmental challenge to challengers
2009-01-20 – Rally teams can be carbon neutral in Norway, or even for the entire 2009 Rally Championship. Read more...

Rally Norway publishes entry list: Solberg and Mikkelsen are in!

Rally Norway publishes entry list: Solberg and Mikkelsen are in!
2009-01-13 – Close to 50 competitors have submitted their entries to Rally Norway, taking place 12-15 February. The start list includes drivers from twenty nations as well as ten Norwegians and is a strong field for the WRC’s second event of 2009. Read more...

Rule Changes in 2009

Rule Changes in 2009
2009-01-13 – 2009 will see the final year of the World Rally Car era as we know it, before transitional technical changes are announced for 2010 as part of the change to the new formula, which comes fully into effect in 2011. Read more...

Flodin and Sandell to take in Rally Norway in P-WRC

Flodin and Sandell to take in Rally Norway in P-WRC
2009-01-09 – Sweden will have two drivers in P-WRC 2009 with Rally Norway 2009 as the opening round: Patrik Sandell/Emil Axelsson will be driving for the Red Bull Rally Team and Patrik Flodin/Göran Bergsten for Uspenskiy Rally Tecnica (URT). Read more...

Norwegian winter creates iced roads covered by snow

Norwegian winter creates iced roads covered by snow
2009-01-09 – Temperatures well below zero and a generous covering of snow – winter arrived in the picturesque eastern provinces with the mountain areas that will host Rally Norway 2009. Read more...

Closing date for entries to Rally Norway extended one week

Closing date for entries to Rally Norway extended one week
2009-01-06 – Although all entries being top class cars, the closing date for entries to Rally Norway 2009 has been extended one week. Read more...

Tickets online now

Tickets online now
2009-01-05 – Tickets are now available online! In Rally Norway’s ticket shop you’ll find rally passes, day passes, Oslo passes and the official programme «Fire & Ice» Rally Norway’s ticket shop

FIA Clubs becomes new shareholders in Rally Norway

FIA Clubs becomes new shareholders in Rally Norway
2008-12-23 – The two Norwegian FIA Clubs, Royal Norwegian Automobile Club (KNA) and Norwegian Automobile Federation (NAF) are new shareholders in the Norwegian WRC round, Rally Norway. Read more...

Rally Norway 2009 collection on sale now

Rally Norway 2009 collection on sale now
2008-12-09 – The new collection of Rally Norway 2009 products is on sale now. Find your rally favourite among stylish jackets, hats, gloves, caps and T-shirts in adult and children’s sizes. Read more...

Tickets for Rally Norway 2009

Tickets for Rally Norway 2009
2008-11-24 – Tickets for Rally Norway 2009 are available now! Read more...

Subaru announces second team for 2009

Subaru announces second team for 2009
2008-09-24 – The World Rally Championship will feature a brand new Manufacturer Team in 2009 after Subaru finalised a deal yesterday with the Norwegian based Adapta World Rally Team. Read more...

Rally Guide 1 is available!

Rally Guide 1 is available!
2008-09-12 – Rally Guide 1 (RG1) is now available. This document provides practical information for competitors, teams and media. Read more...

Opening show 2009 will be in Oslo

Opening show 2009 will be in Oslo
2008-07-01 – The Bjerkebanen trotting track in Oslo becomes the arena for the opening show and the first special stage of Rally Norway on 12 February 2009. Read more...

Rally Norway paves the eco-way

Rally Norway paves the eco-way
2008-06-11 – Rally Norway congratulates Wales Rally GB, the final round of this year's FIA World Rally Championship, for achieving CarbonNeutral® event status, confirming that the event's carbon footprint is now 'net zero'. Read more...

1 year until Rally Norway 2009

1 year until Rally Norway 2009
2008-02-13 – Rally enthusiasts in Norway can start counting down the days, as it is now exactly one year until the launch of Rally Norway and the preparations are already underway. Read more...

Next Rally Norway 13-15 February 2009

Next Rally Norway 13-15 February 2009
2007-12-07 – Today FIA World Motor Sport Council appointed Rally Norway to organise Norway's next WRC round 13-15 February 2009. Read more...

The Winter is Here

The Winter is Here
2007-12-04 – The winter has come to Rally Norway. Outside it is –10 C° and the conditions are superb. Read more...

Rally Norway poised to kick off WRC 2009

Rally Norway poised to kick off WRC 2009
2007-10-28 – Rally Norway is keenly anticipating a celebration of its nomination as the year’s first WRC round in 2009. Read more...

Rally Norway worth more than 10 million Euros

Rally Norway worth more than 10 million Euros
2007-09-24 – Norway’s first WRC round 15–18 February 2007 provided more than 10 million Euros in additional income to the region where the world championship took place. Read more...

World Record in successful WRC preparations

World Record in successful WRC preparations
2007-05-08 – With a very successful first WRC event on Norwegian soil, Rally Norway is going all out to ensure that Rally Norway is a regular organiser on the future WRC calendar. Read more...

5 Norwegian teams to Rally Portugal

5 Norwegian teams to Rally Portugal
2007-03-28 – The rally circus has returned to Europe and the number of Norwegian teams taking part continues to grow with a total of five teams entered in Rally Portugal this weekend. Read more...

FIA's Fifteen Crucial Rally Issues

FIA's Fifteen Crucial Rally Issues
2007-03-06 – President of the FIA's World Rally Championship Commission (WRCC) Morrie Chandler was present in Rally Norway, and gave an insight into the status quo on world championship issues. Read more...

Home victory

Home victory
2007-02-21 – Thousands of enthusiastic spectators, happy drivers and teams and also international observers who nodded approvingly: it is not surprising Rally Norway Managing Director Even Wiger was smiling more than usual. Read more...

Ford Focus powers to podium clean sweep on Rally Norway

Ford Focus powers to podium clean sweep on Rally Norway
2007-02-18 – Ford claimed all three podium places on the Rally Norway today with the Focus RS World Rally Car. Read more...

Perfect Norwegian Junior Victory for Andersson

Perfect Norwegian Junior Victory for Andersson
2007-02-18 – Swedish driver P-G Andersson (Suzuki) and co-driver Jonas Andersson drove a faultless rally to take victory on the opening round of the 2007 FIA Junior Rally Championship. Read more...

Post-event FIA Press Conference

Post-event FIA Press Conference
2007-02-18 – Driver comments after Rally Norway. Read more...

Drivers’ verdict: “Beautiful. Difficult. So much fun!”

Drivers’ verdict: “Beautiful. Difficult. So much fun!”
2007-02-18 – The Mountain stage (SS11 and SS15) was popular, and it proved fortuitous that it was run twice. Read more...

Ford clean up and Henning beats Petter to the podium

Ford clean up and Henning beats Petter to the podium
2007-02-18 – Mikko Hirvonen took victory for Ford in the inaugural Rally Norway WRC Read more...

Driver comments: SS 18 Elverum 2

Driver comments: SS 18 Elverum 2
2007-02-18 – End of stage flashes from SS 18 Elverum 2 Read more...

Driver comments: Service G

Driver comments: Service G
2007-02-18 – Comments from the drivers at Service G Read more...

Driver comments: SS 17 Hamar 2

Driver comments: SS 17 Hamar 2
2007-02-18 – End of stage flashes from SS 17 Hamar 2 Read more...

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