Posted Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 10:25pm
The 2025 World Rally Championship campaign stops off in Scandinavia for the snowy stages of Rally Sweden this week, where every fraction of a second can be crucial.
Twenty years ago, that was never more apparent than in one of the event’s all-time great tussles, where two men were separated by a split-second measurement on ice.
Cast your mind back to 2005. Chelsea were romping away to a then-record points haul for the Premier League title against Arsenal, their first top-flight crown for a half-century.
But across the North Sea, it was another blue team that triumphed over the reds in the WRC, as Subaru’s Petter Solberg overcame Peugeot’s Marcus Gronholm in an epic fight.
