Swedish victory in P-WRC. Patrik Flodin won a close battle in the PWRC event in Spain.
Patrik and his co-driver Göran has done a very strong run in the Spanish event an event that has been extremely challenging. Patrik is not specialized on tarmac so this victory feels great.
-"Finally" Patrik laugh's "We have had a so many mishaps this season. So it feels just fantastic to be able to be here and get a win again!"

The plan was to get as much as possible ahead on friday on the gravel stages.
-" I thought that if we should have a chance here we had to really get ahead on friday. But unfortunately we got some issues with the engine with miss fires and only to cylinders running late on friday" Patrik tells us.

So before the two days with tarmac stages only, they were in the lead with just more than half a minute.
-" I was really not sure that it would be enough" Patrik explains.

But they were able to keep the chasing Michal Kosciuszko behind.
He was able to get really close a bit to close to feel comfortable and before the the second last stage the it was only 3,2 seconds between the two and the n Patrik got a flat tire in the end of the stage.
-" I thought that we were smoked " says Patrik " Luckily we had made a really fast run before the flat tire and only lost 0,9 seconds to Michal Kosciuszko".

Before the last stage they were in the lead with 2,3 seconds. When they passed the finnish line they had to wait for Michal to come in before they knew if they won or not. Michal won the stage but only with 0,3 seconds and that gave Patrik the victory with a margin of two seconds.
-" I am really so happy right now. To win a tarmac event feels huge. I have so much more to learn but know I have a tarmac victory in the baggage" Patrik laughs.

Next P-WRC event will be the last event for the season in England november 11-13th