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Patrik Sandell (center) could celebrate his first victory in RedBull Global Rallycross. Sebastian Eriksson (right) was third and is second overall in the series.
Patrik Sandell won the second competition in the Global Rallycross in Detroit, which was run on Sunday night. But the championship’s big Swedish sensation Sebastian Eriksson, who after double third places in Detroit is second overall.
Patrik Sandell won the second competition in the Global Rallycross in Detroit, which was run on Sunday night. But the championship’s big Swedish sensation Sebastian Eriksson, who after double third places in Detroit is second overall.
Patrik Sandell won one race in Washington already last season and after standing over the opening race of the championship came the first victory on Sunday.
– What a weekend. The team has worked really hard and feeling when I ran across the finish line was indescribable. I was so overjoyed simply. We have worked hard for this, after having had the pole in a few races where we had the lead, we could now finally wrap up, says Patrik in a press release.
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It could in fact have been a double victory for Patrik.
In the Saturday race, he stood next leader of the championship American Ken Block. But it was Patrick who took the start. He led by 2.5 seconds after the semi final, but with less than two laps to go beat the misfortune to.
Suddenly broke a driveshaft and Patrik’s car stopped.
– We were fastest but gets not the result we deserved, says Patrik on Saturday.
But the team got to the car in as good trim for Sunday race. Patrik was as fast as from the launch pad and the car was all the way in.
It actually became doubly Swedish on the podium. For after Sandell and former Formula 1 driver Scott Speed arrived Sebastian Eriksson.
Sandell is now eighth in the championship after also taking second place in the New River. He was sixth overall in the series both in 2013 and 2014.
Leading do Ken Block after the victory on Saturday in Detroit and seventh place Sunday night.
But the seasoned American is shaded by a young Swedish. Sebastian Eriksson is just 26 points after block after an impressive smoothness debut season in the supercar in the Global Rallycross, which runs in twelve races in the US and Barbados.
Sebastian worst position is the ninth. In the other races he has positioning line: four, three, one, three and finished third. He was also third in the X-Games which run in Austin and is outside the championship.
The victory took his sensational in his only third start in the Global Rallycross June 21 to classical racing ground in Daytona.
22-year-old Sebastian Eriksson, from Nynashamn, has made a meteoric career in rally and a talent beyond the ordinary.
He started driving folkrace age of 15 and 2010, he is no less than 35 wins.
2012 he won JSM in rally, in 2013 he was second in the minor class in the Global Rallycross for 2014 to come back home and win national championships in the big class supercars.
Now, he has already made his international breakthrough, but still somewhat overshadowed when it occurs on the other side of the Atlantic.
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