WRC Sweden Statistics

Originally posted on 2/7/2007
I am moving all my rally stats to this website. This is the first time for this so I hope it works.

Swedish Rally Historical Stats
Sweden has been included in the WRC Drivers' Championship 26 times, beginning in 1979. It was skipped in 1990 and rotated to a Formula 2 event in 1994.
It has been Round 2 of the WRC 24 times, but twice was the opening event: 1989 & 1986.
Sweden has been dominated by Scandanavians; Frenchman Sebastien Loeb is the only non-Scandanavian to win (2004).

It has had 2 names:
International Swedish Rally (1979-2001)
Uddeholm International Swedish Rally (2002 - 2006)

8 Drivers picked up Maiden WRC wins in Sweden:
before WRC Drivers' Championship
Stig Blomqvist (1973) Bjorn Waldegard (1975)Per Eklund (1976)
Anders Kullang (1980)
Ingvar Carlsson (1989)
Mats Jonsson (1992)
Marcus Gronholm (2000)
Harri Rovanpera (2001)

Did You Know? : Colin McRae's WRC debut came on the 1987 Swedish Rally in a Vauxhall Nova, co-driven by Derek Ringer (GBR).
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