VW RX Sweden Comes out of Montalegre RX Ranked Second

It was a frustrating, if promising round one of the World Rallycross Championship for Volkswagen’s Johan Kristoffersson. Volkswagen RX Sweden’s top driver lost available points after crashing out of the weekend’s final race at Portugal’s Montalegre RX, but his strong performance over the course of the weekend leaves him in a tie for second place in the driver’s championship.

The weekend started wildly, with pouring rain causing havoc in the qualifying races. Despite racing through deep mud, Kristoffersson was quick in qualifying, topping the qualifying sheet in Heat 1, and earning himself a spot in the first semi-final.

Starting from the front row, he completed his joker lap (a longer lap that all drivers must complete once per race) right off the start. The strategy worked, and Kristoffersson all but cruised into a race win ahead of 9-time WRC champion Sebastien Loeb.

Thanks to that, he was on the first row in the final, as well, where he used the same strategy, jokering on the first lap. All was well until Petter Solberg, who would eventually win the race, bumped into him coming out of a corner. Kristoffersson went off track and broke his wheel off getting back onto the tarmac.

The bad news is that he only earned one point in the final. The good news is the most he could have gotten was 8 points, so the weekend was still a qualified success. Thanks to his quick times all weekend, he ends up tied for second place with 21 points. Better yet, thanks to teammate Anton Marklund, Volkswagen RX Sweden is now in second place among teams.

The teams will be back on track at Hockenheim, in Germany on May 6.

You can watch the whole weekend’s action by following this link, and day 2’s highlights below.

The post VW RX Sweden Comes out of Montalegre RX Ranked Second appeared first on VWVortex.

from VWVortex http://ift.tt/23We8KG
via IFTTT

Comments

Project SportWagen: Going Stage 2 with APR

When we last left you, the humble little SportWagen was fresh from the development process with our friends at AWE Tuning, sporting a new downpipe, exhaust and intake, allowing things to breathe a bit easier. The car sounded great, but there was no getting around the fact that our wagon was still quite, well, slow. While we realize that nothing we do to the Golf SportWagen at this point will make it a race car, we still felt compelled to do something . To put it bluntly, we had a fever, and the only cure was more power. Flash forward a few hours, and we found ourselves at Waterfest, staring down APR’s palatial spread and the numerous tuned vehicles surrounding it. Earlier in the year, APR had hinted to us that their 1.8 TSI files would be quite impressive, and based on what they were able to do with the 2.0 TSI found in the new GTI and our time in their Golf R, we knew it’d be worth the wait. So with this in mind, we lined our G...

Project Golf SportWagen- Intro

I’ve never really been one for SUVs and crossovers. The current offerings aren’t the body-on-frame, go-anywhere specialty tools I remember from my youth, and what they lack in capability, they also lack in on-road performance. The current crop isn’t terribly good at handling or being efficient, which in my opinion are major components of our ideal driving experience. So when it comes to space or utility, I usually look for something of the wagon variety- and it seems that I’m not alone. We hit quite a few shows around the east coast each summer, and we see modified Jetta SportWagens at nearly every event. Even amongst common consumers, these cars are highly sought-after. They don’t depreciate much, making even early Mk 5 2.5 versions expensive in comparison to other Jettas or Golfs of the same vintage. This year, Volkswagen launched their latest SportWagen, which is now billed as a Golf. In many ways, this latest SportWagen is the best yet and it has certai...

Volkswagen Group Records Best Ever First-Half-of-Year Sales

With 5.5 million vehicles in customer hands after the first six months of 2018, the Volkswagen Group is seeing the best performance of its history. Group deliveries increased significantly in all core regions,” said Fred Kappler, head of sales for the Group. “Our core brands recorded strong growth in the first half year.” For the year-to-date, all of Volkswagen’s brands had sales bumps. MAN, SEAT, and Skoda led the sales charge with performances 24%, 17% and 11% better than the previous year. The big sellers, too, had strong sales periods, with Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Audi, and Volkswagen sales rising 3.5%, 4.5% and 6.3% respectively. That last figure is particularly good new for the board, since Volkswagen alone sold more than 3 million vehicles in the first half of 2018. As Kappler stated, the numbers are equally good when you break sales down by region. Brazil and Russia were the most improved markets (22% and 20%, respectively), while strong sales in Europe and China (u...

Vorderman Volkswagen

Search This Blog