Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 10:28pm
Petter Solberg isn’t short of World Rally Championship victories. In fact, he won 13 events across a career that peaked with the 2003 world title. But Rally México will always mark an important moment in his career as it’s the last full rally Solberg ever won.
Rally GB 2005 will ultimately go down as Solberg’s final victory, but it was a rally marred by the tragic loss of Michael Park. Although Solberg won the event, there was no room for celebration. The same couldn’t be said of his victory some months earlier in México.
México was an event that immediately seemed to suit Solberg. After all, he led the rally after the first day on its WRC debut in 2004, only for the battery in his Impreza WRC to fail and force him and co-driver Phil Mills to push it into service and incur a time penalty.
