Picture: Jochen Walter in his 240 on a swedish special stage in January 2010.

Five drivers took the first chanse to score extra points in Volvo Original Nordic West Euro Cup 2010!
The rally in Vännäs in the north of Sweden was a real winter rally - the first of two rallies the same weekend in the same area. The rallies was the first rallies in the Swedich Volvo Original Cup 2010 and more than 50 Volvos started.
The foreign Volvo Drivers in the rally was:
Jochen Walther, Siggi Mayr och Philip Knoof from Germany, Karl Rumpler from Austria and Robert Nordin from Aland, a small island autonomy between Finland and Sweden.

Fastest of the foreign drivers was Robert Norin while Jochen was unlucky and had to stop and help to move a crashed car on stage 2, so he lost a couple of minutes.

Her is the results from the foreign drivers:
1) Robert Nordin/Johnie Fredriksson, Åland/FI, Volvo 940, 32 min 06 secs, 2) Jochen Walther/Philipp Musholt, Germany, Volvo 240, 34.27, 3) Siegfried Mayr/Hubert Spindler, Germany, Volvo 740, 36.34, 4) Karl Rumpler/Maria Rumpler, Austria, Volvo 740, 37.57, 5) Philip Knoof/ Bianca Lustig, Germany, Volvo 940, 58.15

19 year old Philip Knoof started on snow and ice for the first time but dig a good rally. The problem was that he went off and lost 20 minutes in the snow on special stage 3, but the car was ok - the snow is soft - så he could go on and reach finish line.

All drivers started even in the rally the day after - but that gave no extra points for the Cup.
The Vännäs rally means that 5 drivers now has 15 extra point each in the Euro Cup - before the rally starts.

There was a 3 country rally meetinge in Vännäs before start and now the work start to ger more bonus rallies in the cup.
Already there are 2 more extra rallies in Sweden and two in Norway and next chance to get extra points is Rally Finnskog in Kongsvinger, Norway February 20.
The rules says 15 points if ou ger to finish line and 7 if you start but has to give up.
Every driver can get points from maximum 3 rallies extra.
And of cause - the extra rally points only can be taken in an other country!

We will come back with more info

P/ Karl Rumpler and Philiph Knoofe droved ther rally cars on the the road frome hometowns to Vännäs. Karl drove his car back again - but Philiph had to borrow Siggis 740 and put the 940 on Siggis hanger, because the gearbox broke down the second day.