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Norway WRX: Bakkerud leads after Day 1

Multiple World Rallycross event-winner Andreas Bakkerud set a pair of fastest times on the first day of the Norwegian round of the championship at the Hell circuit to top the order.

Andreas Bakkerud, Hoonigan Racing Division

Andreas Bakkerud, Hoonigan Racing Division

FIA World Rallycross

Sébastien Loeb, Team Peugeot Hansen
Mattias Ekström, EKS RX
Petter Solberg, Petter Solberg World RX Team
Timmy Hansen, Team Peugeot Hansen
Timur Timerzyanov, World RX Team Austria
Sébastien Loeb, Team Peugeot Hansen
Davy Jeanney, Team Peugeot Hansen
Tommy Rustad, Albatec - HTB Racing

The Norwegian driver led both his Q1 and Q2 races from lights-to-flag, his Q2 race time just half a second slower than his first four-lap effort in a dominant display.

Russian driver Timur Timerzyanov continued his practice form from Friday evening’s first session into Saturday morning and was again quickest in the second session, driving his World RX Team Austria Ford Fiesta.

Third fastest behind Bakkerud and Timmy Hansen in Q1, Timerzyanov was second fastest to Bakkerud in Q2 to be second overnight, having chased Bakkerud around the undulating Hell venue for the entire race in Q2.

Hansen is third overall, backing up his first podium of the season in the UK, while the Swede’s team mate, Sebastien Loeb, was seventh fastest in Q1 but climbed to fourth overall at the end of day two with third fastest in Q2.

The experienced French driver taking his joker lap early in the penultimate race of the day and winning on track ahead of Janis Baumanis and Johan Kristoffersson.

At his home event, Petter Solberg was fourth and sixth fastest in the opening two qualifying sessions to be fifth overall.

Solberg was alone in taking his joker early in the last race of Q2 but was unable to leap frog any more than one driver, Mattias Ekstrom, with the tactic.

Ekstrom ended up seventh at the end of the first day’s running, behind Timerzyanov’s team mate Janis Baumanis, in eighth.

Swede Robin Larsson is ninth overall, he finished behind an on-track Solberg-Loeb battle in Q1 (which Solberg won) before making a solid move for the lead in his Q2 race, passing Ken Block in the uphill final corner of lap three to win on track.

British driver Liam Doran was 14th fastest in Q1 but retired from Q2 with a spectacular roll in his JRM Racing-run Mini RX.

WTCC driver Rene Munnich retired from Q1, as did Anton Marklund who’s Volkswagen Polo suffered from an engine bay fire. He returned for Q2 and is currently 17th.

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