Six participants of Solberg family to kind out ERC stages in Sweden

Royal Rally of Scandinavia is a contemporary match that utilises about a of the renowned roads that had been section of Rally Sweden when the WRC spherical used to be based mostly in the Varmland space around town of Karlstad, sooner than its switch north to Umea in 2022.

The route will encompass the iconic Colin’s Crest named after the late 1995 world rally champion Colin McRae.

The rally has attracted 47 entries, and the Solberg family will attract deal of attention on home soil.

Oliver Solberg is amongst the entries as the 21-year-extinct tackles his first ERC match of the season driving the Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 he drove in the championship in 2019 and 2020.

The outmoded Hyundai factory driver shall be joined on Friday’s Angebackstorp check and Saturday’s Collins stage by five other participants of his family.

His 2003 world rally champion father Petter and mom Pernilla will additionally be assist in the assist of the wheel, alongside his outmoded uncle Henning Solberg, who competed in the WRC from 1998 to 2019.

Petter Solberg, Chris Patterson, Citroen C4 WRC

Photograph by: Petter Solberg Media Office

Petter Solberg is made up our minds to force a family-owned Citroen C4 WRC, which he drove to Third in the 2010 WRC standings. He shall be joined in the co-drover seat by his mom Tove.

“What can I whine? It be going to be a if truth be told special week for us,” acknowledged Petter Solberg.

“For me, or no longer it is very cool that I in discovering to force my mom in a rally automobile. You know, she’s an very very finest driver herself – she won so many Norwegian Autocross titles. She’s 72 and I’m particular she’s going to be giving me some recommendation when we take the starting point.

“In actuality, when we first heard about the plans for this rally, we had been entirely in the assist of it.

“For Varmland, this is a huge match and a huge deal. It be been a couple of years without Rally Sweden in the location, so that you simply can remark rallying assist at nearly the very finest level is amazingly major.

“And or no longer it is so much for us Solbergs too. We be pleased tons of family, guests and partners coming to the match – or no longer it is an consuming diagram to expose them what we’re doing all of our lives!”

Pernilla Solberg and Ulrika Mattsson

Photograph by: Petter Solberg Media Office

One day of the Nineties, Pernilla Solberg (nae Walfridsson) used to be a typical competitor in the WRC scene. This weekend she shall be reunited with the Community N Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI she drove to success in the 2000 WRC, and can once again force alongside co-driver from the duration Ulrika Mattsson.

“For Ulrika and I this shall be fantastic to birth a stage collectively again after this kind of very prolonged time,” acknowledged Pernilla Solberg.

“We had some very very finest cases collectively and for one weekend or no longer it’d be special to fragment a while and these memories.

“It be additionally going to be quite irregular to force these roads in the summer time. Areas adore the Vargasen stage shall be very varied – coming into Colin’s Crest and not using a snow and everyone wearing t-shirts and shorts shall be odd. Nonetheless or no longer it’d be large fun.”

The Solberg contingent is accomplished by Henning and his wife Maud, who will force Toyota Celica Turbo 4 wheel force owned by Petter.