(Oilandgaspress) At the Rallye Vosges Grand-Est, Calle Carlberg at last clinched his first victory in the ADAC Opel Electric Rally Cup “powered by GSe”. In the first special stage, the 22-year-old Swede and his father Torbjörn took the lead in their Corsa Rally Electric and held it until the finish.
By then, Carlberg and the rest of the field had endured a highly demanding and eventful rally. The difficult roads, which were partly littered with stones and dirt from the four-wheel drive cars in front, took their toll on most of the Corsa Rally Electric and led to frequent tyre damage. “The stages are great, but extremely demanding,” confirmed overall leader Max Reiter. “When 50 all-wheel drive cars have gone over it, there ruts and dirt that you don’t have in the pace notes. You really have to be prepared for anything.”
Hardly any driver got through the eight special stages completely unscathed. In the third-to-last stage, it was a broken control arm that reduced Carlberg’s lead over Reiter to just 6.8 seconds. In the penultimate stage “Corcieux”, the Scandinavian did well again and went into the final “Power Stage” with a lead of 17.7 seconds over his main rival.
There Carlberg safely drove home his debut victory in the world’s first electric one-make rally cup: “At last! The key to success here was that everyone else had some kind of problem and we didn’t even slide off. I’m really happy that this controlled pace was enough to win. We didn’t really push ourselves to the limit on the Power Stage either, I was almost surprised that we set the best time again. I really enjoyed the fight with Max – but I’m almost glad that he’s still ahead in the table. Then I don’t have to be the first to start in Weiz…”
Reiter paid tribute to his opponent: “Calle clearly deserved the win. After two very consistent rallies, I made a few too many small mistakes here. But I’m very happy with another podium finish and I’m looking forward to the next rounds.”
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