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Sordo wins Sweden superspecial

Dani Sordo got his Rally Sweden off to an encouraging start by winning the opening superspecial in Karlstad this evening

The Citroen number two took part in the recent Arctic Rally to improve his pace on snow, and set the fastest time on tonight's short stage by two seconds over Citroen Junior driver Sebastien Ogier.

Likely title rivals Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) and Sebastien Loeb (Citroen) took a cautious approach to the superspecial and finished third and fourth.

Returning former world champion Marcus Gronholm (Stobart Ford) holds equal fifth with Ford's second works driver Jari-Matti Latvala, while Kimi Raikkonen ended his first stage as a World Rally Championship driver in joint eighth for Citroen Junior.

The only drama among the frontrunners was a spin by Petter Solberg. The Norwegian shrugged off the incident as excessive oversteer, but will start tomorrow's full-length stages already 18s adrift of the lead.

Pos  Driver              Car      Time/Gap
 1.  Dani Sordo          Citroen  1m31.4s
 2.  Sebastien Ogier     Citroen   + 2.0s
 3.  Mikko Hirvonen      Ford      + 2.1s
 4.  Sebastien Loeb      Citroen   + 2.3s
 5.  Jari-Matti Latvala  Ford      + 2.6s
 =   Marcus Gronholm     Ford      + 2.6s
 7.  Matthew Wilson      Ford      + 3.9s
 8.  Kimi Raikkonen      Citroen   + 5.1s
 =   Mads Ostberg        Subaru    + 5.1s
10.  Khalid Al Qassimi   Ford      + 5.2s
 =   P-G Andersson       Skoda     + 5.2s

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