After finishing SS9 (Torsby) Maciej Oleksowicz and Andrzej Obrębowski (Castrol TRW MOTOINTEGRATOR Team) have reached service park in Hagfors.

Maciej Oleksowicz:

– We have finished eight long special stages, which, what is interesting, were placed in Norway. Stages were nicely covered in snow, we found them very beautiful. Now we wait for the short special stage in Karlstadt. We must admit that we are not completely satisfied with our pace. It should be better, so we were constantly trying to improve it. Unfortunately we had some problems. Once I stopped the engine on the hairpin, then we drove into the snowdrift, what caused time loss. Of course we will keep pushing tommorow.

There are lots of spectators on the stages. You can see places crowded with fans, you can see lot of flags, lot of people taking pictures.

We had some problems with gear changes. I had to use clutch, our gearbox didn't work properly, so we decided to replace it. Our team managed to do it during 45 minutes in service park, so I believe our car will work perfectly tommorow.

After 9 SS Poles are on the fifth position in SWRC class and twenty-sixt in overall.