Rally New Zealand, August 30-September 2 2007
Ford Focus RS WRC07
I really wasn't sure which rally to choose for this. Do I do the first win - Sweden in 2000? This was the special one; everybody remembers the first win or the last one.
Ach! The last one, it was the really special one. So close, so close - by three tenths of a second. The rally of my life has to be New Zealand in 2007.
Marcus Gronholm on Rally Sweden This will be the 15th time Marcus Gronholm has started Rally Sweden. He shares the record - with Stig Blomqvist – for the most number of wins (five) on the event. So we thought he was the best person to tell you what makes this year's WRC opener so special WRC
Pace Notes: Gronholm's guest column In his last Pace Notes piece, AUTOSPORT rallies editor David Evans promised you he'd try and get Marcus Gronholm to guest-write a column. Well fresh from his WRC outing in Portugal here is what the double world champion had to say... F1
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