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13/11/11
In secured second place in PWRC Championship with a big win

Patrik Flodin and his stand in co-driver Timo Alenne won the Championship final, Rally Wales GB. They totally outclassed the competition and won with almost six minutes down to Martin Semerad on second place and with more then twelve minutes down to Michal Kosciuszko Patrik tock is second strait silver in P-WRC.

After the finish Martin Semerad was disqualified in the post event control were they found out that he was using shock absorbers that did not conform to the rules in P-WRC. So Patriks time to second extended to just over 12 minutes down to Michal Kosciuszko and third Nicolas Fuchs.

Totay has been all about going true the stages without making any mistakes and hold the lead that they built up since Friday. They slowed down the pace but still won tree out of six of todays stages.
-"It has almost been a bit annoying" Patrik laugh's "To have great day like this with super conditions and just running true the stages without attack, Instead going round for two days just focus on taking it nice and gentle. It is really hard to drive and know that just making one mistake will spoil your chances without having anyone else to blame. It was much more fun on friday when we had a real battle going on with Jarko Nikara".

Patrik and his co-driver Göran Bergsten had a ruff start on the season but with the great ending they still finnish second overall.
-"My goal was clear to win the Championship but with the start of the season that we had I am more than pleased with a second place" Patrik says.

The season started in Sweden everything was going great but they were excluded from the event because their rims did not conform with the P-WRC specifications:
-"We were running the same rims as last year and the team missed that the regulations was changed" Patrik explains.

The next event Rally Portugal was all over a sad story with a rollover, broken driveshaft and a faulty gearbox:
-" That event is going to history as one of my worst events ever" Patrik says.

After that there was a few rallies with decent results considered the issues occurred. A second place in Argentina and a third place in Finland.

The end of the season was much better Patrik and Göran wins in Spain on Tarmac and now today Patrik and his stand in co-driver Timo secured another win in the final round here in Wales.
-"It feels so good and is really good for the self confidence to be able to finish this horrible season in a great way. Now we will go home and really start to work with next season" Patrik ends.

Patrik och Timo won the rally 12;14,7 minutes before Michal Kosciuszko and 12.46.5 minutes before Nicolas Fuchs.

P-WRC Championship results 2011
1. Hayden Paddon (NZ)
2. Patrik Flodin (S)
3. Martin Semerad (CZE)
4. Michal Kosciuszko (Pol)

P-WRC, Wales Rally GB
7. Aleksev Kirkkeshko (Ukr) 4:08:19.4 +21:46.0