Yesterday and today the second last round in the Russian championship has been run. Patrik and his stand in co-driver Håkan Palm had no problems co-operating they tog stage wins after stage wins as long as the tires held up. They were fast but it was not enough for a win, since they did get not less then three flat tires
- ”Really I don´t understand why we got the last two” says Patrik frustrated.-“ the first one on the first stage I buy because we were going out first and it was big rocks on the road. The other two is just a mystery. We got them even thue we changed the suspension and changed the pressure in the tires for todays stages everything to make sure not to have any more flat tires”.

When they came to the last stage they were third but when Andrew Truhkin in second lost almost four minutes it looked really good. Anyhow the last flat tire came on the last stage for Patrik and with that he lost the important second place and finished third.
- ” I needed that second place to still be in the fight about the championship title . Now the chance is gone. Even if I win the next round and Andrew Zhigunov retire, he will still have one more point in total” explains Patrik

It has been a year with a lot of flat tires in this Championship for Patrik and they have all been in the beginning of the stages so he had to stop and change in order not to damage the car.
- “Honestly it feels really bad at the moment. It is a give and take situation I guess. Last year we run the whole Championship without any flat this year we have had I don´t know how many. So you can say last year we took the title this year we gave it away here in Russia. Well we have two more Championships to win this year so now we focuse on them. Says Patrik and sounds a bit more optimistic.