Picture: Siegfried "Sigi" Mayer, got championship points in Austria. Only 3 of 14 starting Volvo Original drivers in austrian Triestingtal-Rallye got championship poits in the Nordic West Euro Cup. It was the winner - german 240 Jochen Walther - it was the third car of them all - Siegfrid Sigi Mayr, also frċn Germany. And it was the austrian 740-driver Thomas Büchinger, who in his first rally ended at 9.th place among the Volvos, only 0,6 seconds behind the Volvo before him. Just more than 80 teams - included the 14 Volvo cars - started in this gravel rally with 11 special stages. Two of the cars came from Germany, one from Serbia and one from Tjech Rebublic and the others from Austria. - The roads where even better, Jochen Walther said. He was the winner with his 240 - but it costed him his engine: - Yes, we used a lot of oil and when we got to the finish line we had no compression in one cylinder. - But I was not the fastest car - I won because austrian Thomas Steinmayer in a 740 made one mistake on the public stage in town and drove one lap to mutch. That costed him 2 minutes and put him down to 2.nd place overall among the Volvos.. - I dit know he was fast - but I am very impressed that he was so fast. And he was driving the whole rally on ordinary winter tyres, not on special rally tyres. The problem in the rally where that 9 of the cars was not accepted in the Cup, because of a conflict with the Volvo Cup organisator in Austria, Karl Rumpler. - Of cause we support Karl Rumpler. He hads done a great job to take the Cup to Austria and we work hard together i all countries to make a rally class with this cars, where you can start in all countries - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands and Austria. And if some drivers will not accept that - well, its pity, the Volvo Original General Carleric Johansson in Sweden says. The drivers not accepted in the Volvo Cup started in a classe in the rally, called The Elch Cup. Result, Volvo Original Nordic West Euro Cup, Leg 3,Triestingtal Rallye, Austria: 1) Jochen Walther, Germany, 240, 1.06.57,0, 2) Siegfried Mayr, Germany, 740, 1,09.04,6, 3) Thomas Büchinger, Austria, 740, 1.1425,2. Top 10, after 3 of 7 rallies (5 will be counted for final result): 1) Emil Tigerberg, Sweden, 940, 57 p, 2) Jochen Walther, 55, 3) Marius Haugerud, Norway, 940, 30, 4) Cor Yantema, The Netherlands, 240 and Sigi Mayr, 27 each, 6) Ruurd Ochsa, The Netherlands, 240 and Thomas Büchinger, 25 each, 8) John Rosscha, The Netherlands, 240 and Greger Engh, Norway, 740, 23 each, 10) Roy Achterbosch, The Netherlands, 740 and Stċle Hovda, 940, Norway, 22 each. Next Rally: 21. ADAC Mobil Pegasus Rallye Sulinger Land, Sulingen, Germany. Asphalt, May 2-3. More info: wwww.rallye-sulingen.de