Rally Sweden 2024 – Friday

We've got plenty more content coming up but Friday's Live Center comes to a close here.

Look out for a special story on the website about Solberg's unusual achievement shortly.

And come back tomorrow at 7:30am local (6:30am GMT, 1:30am ET, 10:30pm Fri PT) for tomorrow's live coverage. See you then!

The red, white and blue full face looks odd on the inside of a factory Subaru Impreza 555, doesn’t it? 

It didn’t happen often. Just the once, in fact. 

Toyota refugee Didier Auriol drove Prodrive’s third car on the 1996 Swedish Rally. 

It’s fair to say the former world champion didn’t exactly gel. He finished 10th, six minutes off winner Tommi Mäkinen and five behind Subaru team-mate Colin McRae (who was third). 

Roope Korhonen is in, so we have a clear picture at the top of WRC2.

Solberg leads by almost half a minute from Linnamäe, while Pajari is now 45.1s adrift of the lead in third.

Mikko Heikkilä and Roope Korhonen make it four Toyotas in the top five.

Georg Linnamäe's time is solid in WRC2, four seconds off Solberg.

But that's allowed Elfyn Evans to take fifth place by 0.1s. It doesn't really matter – Rally1s start before Rally2s in the road order regardless and no points are on offer today. But the leaderboard looks a tad less wonky now.

He's safely through. But he's 11.1s off the pace – that's unlikely to trouble Roope Korhonen for fourth in WRC2 when it's finally his turn to run.

Looks like his issue from the last stage isn't totally resolved – just improved?

"It was some misfire on the first straight but aside from that it was probably fine."

That's a bit better after power problems on the last one – Emil Lindholm only 4s off Solberg's benchmark. Will be a while yet before we know where that puts him in WRC2 though, given the size of the field to come.

Pajari's Yaris is looking fairly war-torn at this point.

"Throughout the loop we were losing pieces [of the car]. But this was a really tricky one."

That was very messy. Playing pinball with the snowbanks. He's 11.3s slower than Solberg – that's not great considering how short this stage is.

He runs wide out of a right hander, swipes a snow bank with the rear of his GR Yaris Rally2 and it veeeeery nearly pitches him nose-first into the same snowbank. Lucky to get away with that one!