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Slieverue man Craig Breen takes 2nd overall at WRC Sweden

Kevin Regan by Kevin Regan
Monday 19 February, 2018
in Motorsport
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Slieverue man Craig Breen takes 2nd overall at WRC Sweden

Craig Breen on the right - Photo: Repro Free Image

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Ireland’s Craig Breen showed his class all weekend by scoring his best result in a World Championship Rally, bringing his Citroen Total Abu Dhabi WRT Citroen C3 to a superb second place overall in Rally Sweden.

This was also the best performance ever by a driver from the Republic in the WRC, with the Waterford ace and his British co-driver Scott Martin less than 20 seconds behind the Hyundai of Belgian World Championship leader Thierry Neuville at the end of three days of snow-covered stages.

Craig Breen said:”I’m absolutely on top of the world! It has been an incredible weekend. I have always really enjoyed this rally in the past, but I have to say that I surprised myself this weekend in that I was able to fight at the front throughout the race, without making any mistakes. I used to think that quick rallies weren’t suited to me, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. In any event, my C3 WRC was perfect here and it’s great to secure this result for the team – the guys have worked really hard for this.”

Breen started his rally sensibly, holding eighth place on Thursday’s short shakedown stage, behind his teammates Mats Ostberg of Norway and Tyrone’s Kris Meeke. However, when the rally proper got under way on Friday, the Irishman took full advantage of conditions which improved as each car went through the stages, ending the day fourth.

On Saturday, he climbed to second spot, 22 seconds behind leader Neuville and ahead of the other two Hyundai drivers, while Ostberg could only manage fifth position, more than half a minute behind Breen, and Meeke slid into a snowbank and couldn’t finish the day’s stages.

Yesterday, Breen closed the gap on Neuville by three seconds, to record an historic podium placing – his first and the first for an Irishman.

.@Craig_Breen secures 2nd overall on Rally Sweden, the best result for a driver from the Republic of Ireland on a WRC rally pic.twitter.com/9m69J9TQcu

— Motorsport Ireland (@MotorsportIRL) February 18, 2018

Afterwards, Breen said “I’m absolutely on top of the world! It has been an incredible weekend. I have always really enjoyed this rally in the past, but I have to say that I surprised myself this weekend in that I was able to fight at the front throughout the race, without making any mistakes”.

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