Picture: Volker Clasen from Germany was the best non-swedish driver in the Volvo Original West Euro Cup 2006. The 240-driver who ended at 3.rd place in Euregio rally also started in famous Pirelli Rally in Finland, where the picture was taken. Anders Svensson, the 20 years old swedish 940-driver, won the Volvo Original Nordic West Euro Cup 2006. Anders was 2.nd in german Lausitz Rallye and as no one of the drivers behind started in last rallye in The Netherlands two weeks later he became the winner, withouth starting in last leg. - Its a nice feeling. I only wanted to test some rallies outside Sweden this year. But it was so nice that I also started in Lausits. My plan was to start in a Gr N car next year, but I will surely wait. - This winter I will build a new Volvo 940 Original Cup Car and try to win the Volvo Original Cup once again next year. - Rallies in Sweden are of cause nice too - but I really love to start abroad! German Lausitz Rally is a long, gravel rally with hard roads and 50.000 spectators round Weisswasser, 200 km southeast of Berlin. Its a wounderful rally and a lot of swedish and german Volvo drivers started this year. In the first stages the Volvo class started as a big fight between two drivers - swedish top driver Magnus Johansson and german top driver Holger Knöbel. Holger - who learned to go fast on gravel in swedish rallies this summer - really was fast and Magnus chased him so hard, that the sweed crashed his rear axle and had to retire. After that Holger had a big lead - almost one minute. But suddenly his engine stopped at one stage. It was an electrical failure and he had to retire too... Now Mikael Andersson took over the lead - and won after a big fight with Anders Svensson over the last stages. The situation before the last leg in the Cup - Euregio Rally, a tarmac rally in The Netherlands - was that a lot of drivers could win - if they won the Euregio! F ex Mikael Andersson and Morgan Olsson. Also Holger Knöbel could reach a 3.rd place overall - if he won in Holland. But - a long trip, a lot to do to the cars after the german rally - and no money in the wallet - made that none of this three drivers dared to challenge the dutch drivers in Holland. So Anders won the Cup without starting... The dutch rally winner was Sander Pelle. Only german driver Volker Clasen had the 3.rd time in classe and climbed to the 7.th place overall. Pricegiving for the Cup will even this year take place at Jochen Walthers place, Schloss Hohen Lückow in Hohen Lückow near Rostock in Germany. The pricegiving will take place Nov 24-26. The guests can arrive to the Castle, built during the 16.th century, friday night and everyone leave the Castle sunday morning. During the saturday everyone discuss the Euro Cup 2007, have the price giving and have a nice dinner together. Probably Jochen find out someting more - he normaly does. The castle and the farm also is nice to see. Last time Jochen had 1.200 cows to milk... You sleep where you can find a place - there are some rooms with beds, but please take your own bed clothing, sleeping bags or something else. If You want a hotel room you have to order it Yourself. Invited to the price giving are the driver in the german Volvo Cup plus the Top 6 drivers in the Euro Cup - plus every foreign driver who once this year started with a Volvo Original Car in a rally in Germany! Because we now are so many we had to decide that we invite only 4 members per team... If you want to come with some more people you have to call Erica Svensson in Sweden and ask if thats possible. Erika take care of all entry forms to the price giving: Questions and entry form: Erica Svensson rallyfindus@hotmail.com +46 70 567 89 69 The price for the weekend is that every team has to bring some beers from a local brewery. 24 bottles per team is enough... Results: Volvo Original Nordic West Euro Rally Cup 2006: Leg 5, Lausitz Rally, Germany: 1) Mikael Andersson, Sweden, Volvo 940, 1.11.37,5, 2) Anders Svensson, Sweden, 940, 1.11.53,4, 3) Morgan Olsson, Sweden, 740, 1.12.11,7, 4) Jochen Walther, Germany, 240, 1.12.43,0, 5) Niklas Lundberg, Sweden, 740, 1.14,26,6, 6) Andreas Leue, Germany, 740, 1.30.05,6, 7) Lazar Kan, Letvinia, 240, 1.32.59,2. Leg 6, Euregio Rally, Holland: 1) Sander Pelle, Holland, Volvo 740, 1.23,55, 2) Pierre Brouwer, Holland, 240, 1.24.19, 3) Volker Clasen, Tyskland, 240, 1.25.28, 4) Roy Achterbosch, Holland, 740, 1.26.28, 5) Ramon Sanders, Holland, 740, 1.26,36, 6) John Bosscha, Holland, 240, 1.37,07, 7) Teun Schermerhorn, Holland, 240, 1.31.09, 8) Jacco Waalewijn, Holland, 940, 1.33,17. Overall: 1) Anders Svensson, 77 p, 2) Mikael Andersson, 76, 3) Magnus Johansson, Sweden, 940, 71, 4) Morgan Olsson, 69, 5) Niklas Carlson, Sweden, 940, 67, 6) Fredrik Menck, Sweden, 940, 57, 7) Volker Clasen, 56, 8) Andreas Leue, 53, 9) Niklas Nilsson, Sweden, 940, 52, 10) Sander Pelle, 51, 11) Hĺkan Süld, Sweden, 740, 51, 12) Holger Knöbel, Germany, 740, Pierre Brouwer and Henrik Persson, Sweden, 940, each 50 p.