Olle Arnesson backs Peter Hedström

In the run-up to his show race against former Rallycrosser Tommy Kristoffersson on the first evening of the WRC Rally Sweden at the Karlstad horse trotting track Peter Hedström has now confirmed that four times European Rallycross champion Olle Arnesson is a shareholder of his new two-car Škoda team. RallycrossWorld.com had announced this cooperation already on January 5. And according to Morgan Bäckvall’s report on Hedström’s local website TorsbyCity.se also the former owner of the Škoda Fabia II Supercar, Michael Jernberg shall be involved in the ERC/SRC project as a coach for Hedström.

The demo shoot-out between Tommy Kristoffersson in his 600+bhp VW Scirocco III Supercar and Peter Hedström in the 600+bhp Fabia was won by the latter. “I had no problems to beat Tommy and would have been able to set the fastest time of all competitors at SSS Karlstad, but was hampered by one of my drive-shafts being defective right from the beginning,” claimed Hedström after winning the Rallycross demo of the event.

On September 9 2011 we revealed that KMS team principal Tommy Kristoffersson was looking forward to take part in the 2012 Swedish European round. The former ERC Audi quattro and Coupé S2 campaigner has now once again confirmed his intention to race at Höljes, as the Finnskoga MS event of this year is not going to clash with a round of the Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC).

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