WRC Women Driver Development Program Winner Selected

Claire Seanborne has claimed a fully funded drive at the Junior World Rally Championship after winning the rally in Sweden after winning the Beyond Rally Women Driver Development Program Shootout.

WRC last year made a global discovery to find out the next women’s rally star, in which the program reached its culmination in Sweden.

A group of 15 finalists were dropped up to three, including Seanbourne (Germany), Licia Bodet (Belgium) and Suvi Jarkeyann (Finland) Central European rally competed last OctoberDriving JWRC-SPEC Ford Fiesta Rally3 cars.

A jury was unable to separate Seanbourne and Bodate, which inspired the pair to firing at the snowflakes of Sweden.

For the first time competing on ice, Hilklimb Racer Shaunborn promoted his rival Bodet to finish seventh in the JWRC category, ending 2M56.3s from Belgium.

Shaunbourne’s success came despite the intercom failure in the early stages, requiring a fix on a road section during Friday’s leg.

“It is incredible and at this time I can’t realize what we have done, so I need to sleep for a day what happened,” what happened. ,

“It was not clear to me to be honest until the final stage because we had a difference, but it only takes a puncture and is differential. We were happy after the last phase but till that moment it was a difficult competition.

“The first phase on Friday morning, the hold level changed a lot and almost every corner was a new grip level. It was really confused in the beginning but we became comfortable with every meter, which we run and now I am happy.

“The rally was a great pleasure to be a part of Sweden and we are very happy that we were finished without any loss, this was the main goal, but now hard work begins, to participate in the rest of the season for Junior WRC. “

Seanbourne and co-operator Zara Han will now start preparing for the first rally on gravel in Portugal (15–18 May) before later visits in Greece, Finland and Central Europe.

“I have never really gone on gravel before, only one kilometer in a phase is a new challenge that I have and I can’t wait,” Shaunborn said.