The perfect rally of most World Rally Championship drivers’ profession is often one of many ones they received, however is that the case for Mads Østberg?
The Norwegian is an uncommon case as the one WRC occasion he received was handed to him after a disqualification for rival Mikko Hirvonen. However there’s a really actual argument to be made that Portugal 2012 wasn’t his finest efficiency anyway – relatively one other battle he had with Hirvonen that he misplaced by only a slender 6.5 seconds.
Again in 2011, the WRC was going by means of a change in rules with the vehicles downsized from two-liter, C-segment vehicles (like a Ford Focus) to 1.6-liter, B-segment vehicles (like a Ford Fiesta).
The season would show to be a scrap between the works Citroëns and Fords, nevertheless it was one in every of Ford’s second-string Stobart drivers who made an actual impression on the opening spherical in Sweden.
Østberg joins Luke Barry on this week’s episode of SPIN, The Rally Pod to look again at his breakthrough WRC efficiency on Rally Sweden 2011, why it shocked him and whether or not he would have approached it any in another way with the advantage of hindsight.
He additionally contemplates whether or not this was his finest WRC efficiency, and supplies an replace on the place we are able to anticipate to see him compete in 2025.
Tell us what you consider this type of podcast, as SPIN, The Rally Pod is present process some renovations in March – which may imply extra episodes like this…
