Picture: Swedish 740 driver Nikals Lundberg was number 4 among the 20 Volvos in norwegian Aurskog Høland Rally and now is 3.rd overall in the Nordic West Euro Rally Cup 2007. Young swedish driver Eric Vrena Johansson now is back on top in the Volvo Original Euro Cup 2007. Eric crashed his car one week before the start, but the team worked hard and the 940 was ready in time before the weekend in Norway. In Norway everything went the right way for the young driver - except that he hit a falling tree during one of the 8 special stages! The tree smasched the front window but Eric lost no time because of the incident. He ended at 2.nd place among the Volvos and now is the new leader in the Cup overall. Former leader - german driver Holger Knöbel - did not start in Norway and now is number 4 overall. But - the winner in the norwegian gravel rally was note one of the fast swedish drivers at the starting list - it was young norwegian newcomber Stig Rune Skjærmoen. 21 years old Stig Rune is driving an old 240 and now started in his 6.th rally since he got his rally licens. Stig Rune started his rally carrier as a 14 old codriver to fast norwegian Volvo Original driver Hans Petter Carlsen and when he got his drivers licens he rented a Volvo - the car he now owns - and started in his first rally. And he was at once one of the fastest Volvo Original drivers in Norway... At the 3.rd place overall we found the 3.rd young driver in the rally - Swedish driver Lill-Anders Svensson. Lill-Anders was the winner of the Cup last year and now has started his way back - now he is nr 3 overall. His stage times was as good as Eric Vrenas times - but on the long ss 3 Anders had problems with the dust from the car behind him and lost a lot of time. 4.th in Norway was 740 driver Niclas Lundberg. Even Niclas went off in the same rally as Eric Vrena but now he was on the road all the day - even if he not had the same speed on stages as he normally has. Very fast swedish 940-driver Magnus Johansson was the 5.th swedish driver in Norway. He started fast in this rally too, but went of and crached his car. The same happend for young norwegian newcomber Arne Martin Lundhaug - normaly a driver who is one of the fastest in Norway. But he was not sad at all: - The car was old and not so good anymore. So my plan was to build a new one after this rally. And now I have to follow the plan... Drivers from 3 nordic contries - Norway, Sweden and Denmark - started in Norway. The danish driver was young Tim Fraas. Tim is the son of danish Volvo Gr H-driver Johannes Fraas, e very well known and fast 240-driver - one of the fastet danish drivers on gravel. Young Tim is very fast at tarmac and now starting to be fast even on gravel. Ha had a lot of good ss-times - but problems with the gearbox costed him a lot of minutes. So he ended among the last in this rally. But he will come back. Results (prel), Volvo Original Nordic West Euro Cup, Aurskog Høland Rally, Norge: 1) Stig Rune Skjæmoen, Norway, 240, 49.51,9, 2) Eric Vrena Johansson, Sweden, 940, 50.19,6, 3) Anders Svensson, Sweden, 940, 50.45,4, 4) Niklas Lundberg, Sweden, 740, 51.09,7, 5) Emil Tigerberg, 940, Sweden, 51.40,8, 6) Helge G. Lundeby, Norway, 240, 51.49,5, 7) Knut A Grefsrud, Norway, 240, 53.04,6, 8) Erik Helgerud, Norway, 740, 57.07,1, 9) Anders Brynildsen, Norway, 740, 58.13,2, 10) Terje Kristoffersen, Norway, 240, 60.00,6, 11) Tim Fraas, Denmark, 240, 61.31,9, 12) Lars G Kokkim, Norway, 240, 63.11.2 Overall after 4 of 7 legs, Top 12: 1) Erik Vrena Johansson, 96 p, 2) Niklas Lundberg, 85, 3) Anders Svensson, 77, 4) Holger Knöbel, Germany, 740, 74 p, 5) Emil Tigerberg, 60, 6) Mikael Råshult Andersson, Sweden, 940, 39, 7) Ramon Sanders, The Netherlands, 740, 33, 8) Magnus Johansson, Sweden, 940, 32, 9) Stig R Skjærmoen, 240, Norway, 30, 10) John Bosscha, The Netherlands, 240, 27, 11) Dick Bleumink, The Netherlands, 940, 25, 12) Volker Clasen, Germany, 240, Thomas Steinmayer, Austria, 740 och Jacco Waalewijn, The Netherlands, 940, all 23 p. Next rally: Sept 29, Tarmac rally in Denmark.