Jochen Walther - fastest  Volvo Original foreign driver in 34 South Swedish Rally

Henrik Levin- the fast swedish Volvo Original driver - has a plan.
He wants to win both the Volvo Original Nordic West Euro Cup and the Volvo Gravel Cup this year.
And after hist start in Sweden and 34 South Swedish Rally this year he realy got the chans.
He and his codriver Ida Isaksson ended 2.nd among 43 Volvos  in the rally after 10 stages and 100 km on fast and dusty gravel roads.
In fact the winner Anders Banger in a 940 is the only one that have a chance to beat him.
But if so Anders must start in and win the Volvo Class in famous German Lausitz Rallye in October.
Its only 3 rallies in the Gravel cup.
Henrik von the fist and Anders Banger the second.
- I will try to get Anders to Lausitz. If so it can be a really nice final fight, Henrik said when he reached the finish in Ljungby, 45,9 seconds behind Anders.
There were only 3 foreign drivers in Volvo classe in SSR this year: 
German veteran Jochen Walther, Robert Nordin from Åland (Finland) and young dutch driver Rinse Zwaagstra.
Rinse rolled his car two weeks ago in Sulingen, but the team worked hard and the car was ok so he could make the long trip to Sweden to start on gravel roads for the first time.
- I was a little bit nervous, but I must say it was the most fantastic and best rally I ever started in, he said after 100 kms on dusty roads.
- I really want to come back again!
Jochen was nr 13, 2.43 min behind the Winner, Robert Nordin was nr 15, 2.49 behind and Rinse nr 33, 10.49 behind. 43 cars started in the SSR Volvo Cup - and even 22 more Volvo Original cars in the local part of the rally (5 ss).
In the big Cup - the Nordic West Euro cup - Henrik Levin has won 2 rallies (Tanks rally in the Netherlands and Rallye Triestingtal in Austria) and now he was nr 2 in the South Swedisg rally.
This means he is really hard to beat , specially as its only two rallies more to go: norwegian Rally Grimstad Aug 1 and KDAK Rally Fyn in Denmark one month later.

Result South Swedish Rally, Ljungby Sweden, 43 cars, Top 16:
1) Anders Banger, Sweden, 940, 55.42,0, 2) Henrik Levin, Sweden, 940, +45,9 secs, 3) Carl Naumer, Sweden, 940, +51,2, 4) Samuel Linddahl, Sweden, 940, +52,2, 5) Lars Ohlson, Sweden, 940, +1.21,7, 6) Anders Johansson, Sweden, 940, +1.25,9, 7) Anders Hjälmeby, Sweden, 940, +1.47,7, 8) Ingvar Nilsson, Sweden, 940, +1.58,6, 9) Fredrik Karlander, Sweden, 940, 2.01,9, 10) Kristoffer Karlsson, Sweden, 940, +2.10,8, 11) Ingemar Thelander, Sweden, 940, 2.24,6, 12) Gert Blomquist, Sweden, 740, +2.39,9, 13) Jochen Walther, Germany, 740, +2.43,0, 14) Mikael Andersson, Sweden, 940, +2.44,1, 15) Robert Nordin, Finland, 940, +2.49,1, 16) Oscar Vrena Johansson, Sweden, 940, +2.54,5.
Others: 33) Rinse Zwaagstra, The Netherlands, 740, +10.49,2.

Nordic West Euro Cup, After 4 of 6 rallies, Top 20.
1) Henrik Levin, 97 points, 2) Andreas Leue, Germany, 740, 52, 3) Rinse Zwaagstra, 40, 4) John Bosscha, The Netherlands, 240, 32, 5) Sander Pelle, The Netherlands, 740 and Anders Banger, 30 each, 7) Jacco Waalewijn, The Netherlands, 940, 27, 8) Andreas Schögler, Austria, 740 and Carl Naumer, 25 each, 10) Ruurd Ochse, The Netherlands, 240, Bernhard Engelmann, Austria, 740 and Samuel Linddahl, 23 each, 13) Uwe Gottschalk, Germany, 240, Nenad Jovanovic, Austria, 740 and Lars Ohlson, 22 each, 16) Philipp Musholt, Germany, 940, Jürgen Praschl, Austria and Anders Johansson, 21 each, 19) Anja C Frese, Germany, 240, and Anders Hjälmeby, 20 each, 20) Jochen Walther and Ingvar Nilsson, 19 each.

Next rally in the Cup: August 1, Rally Grimstad, Grimstad Norway (asphalt)

Volvo Gravel Cup after 2 of 3 rallies, Top 19:
1) Henrik Levin, 57 points, 2) Anders Banger, 30, 3) Andreas Leue , 27, 4) Andreas Schögler and Carl Naumer, 25 each, 6) Bernhard Engelmann and Samuel Linddahl, 23 each, 8) Nenad Jovanovic and Lars Ohlson, 22 each, 10) Jürgen Praschl and Anders Johansson, 21 each, 11) Anders Hjälmeby, 20, 12) Ingvar Nilsson and Jochen Walther, 19 each, 13) Fredrik Karlander, 18, 14) Kristoffer Karlsson, 17, 15) Ingemar Thelander, 16) Gert Blomquist, 15, 17) Mikael Andersson, 13, 18) Robert Nordin, 12, 19) Oscar Vrena Johanson, 11.

Next Rally in the Gravel Cup: Lausitz Rallye, Germany Oct 15-17 (2 of 3 counts)

Rinse Zwaagstra - young dutch driver in his 740 really loved the swedish gravel roads in the SSR. It was his first gravel rally ever - but not his last!