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Jari-Matti Latvala is the winner of the Swedish Rally, and with the victory, the Finn also took the lead in scoring the World Championship. The Volkswagen racer achieved the second victory for this team with an advantage of 53.6 seconds, and on the podium he was joined in second place by Andreas Mikkelsen, while the third place was won by Norwegian Mads Ostberg with Citroen. For Mikkelsen, these are the first podiums in the World Rally Championship, and for a while he even smiled at a possible win until he slipped into a snow wall this morning and lost twenty seconds. Current world champion Sebastien Ogier picked himself up after Friday’s crash and finished in sixth place. "This is my third victory in this rally, and I have never won the same rally three times in my career," Latvala said after the victory. "

Jari-Matti Latvala said his chances of winning depend entirely on the weather. The Volkswagen racer will be the first to take part in the first macadam stage around Salou, after the FIA did not comply with the wishes of the teams that the order of starts would take place in the reverse order as the racers were ranked. Namely, the rules dictate that in macadam rallies the order is determined by the rankings of the racers, with the worst ranked racers on the track being the first. But the FIA called the Spanish rally asphalt, where the fastest racers on the track are first. Latvala will start today with a 1.6 second lead over Dani Sord. "I'm going to need some help from the weather. Because I'm driving first, I can win, but if there's no dust on the track that would reduce the visibility of the racers behind me and if the track isn't wet

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Latvala took the lead in the championship with a Swedish victory

Time is the only hope for Latvalo