Today I’m going to tell you something about a different auto competition just as exciting as F1. 而且——还不要门票。
慧慧：哦，不要门票？那是什么运动？
Nathan：I’m talking about another event organized by FIA, the World Rally Championship.
慧慧：你说的是WRC, 世界汽车拉力锦标赛？
Nathan：Right, in todays Sport’s Review I will introduce you to the second course of the 2004 WRC, Sweden. Citeon’s team driver, Sebastien Loeb took the win .
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Sebastien Loeb recorded his second victory of the season as he became the first non-Scandinavian driver to win the Rally of Sweden.
The Frenchman held off two-time world champion Marcus Gronholm by 46 seconds to follow up his triumph in Monte Carlo with another 10-point haul for Citroen.
World champion Petter Solberg was third for Subaru.
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慧慧：哎，Nathan，这个瑞典站的Rally 比赛举办多少年了啊？
Nathan：恩，大概50多年了。怎么了，慧慧？
慧慧：你看上面报道说，赛巴斯蒂安. 罗布是获得瑞典站冠军的第一个非北欧人。
那么说来，50多年，这站比赛都是北欧人，瑞典，芬兰选手的天下？
Nathan：What’s strange about that? It’s just like the Spanish domination of clay-court tennis or China’s absolute dominance in ping pong.
慧慧：哼，虽然是这样，北欧人在瑞典站的不败金身还是让法国人罗布给破了啊。
我看这就叫“法国火枪手占了北欧海盗的巢”。
Nathan：So this is a surprising turn in WRC history.
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比赛结束后，在WRC的官方网站 www.wrc.com上就发表了这样一篇文章。
“Loeb makes history in Sweden.”
罗布在瑞典站缔造了历史。
Make history，创造历史。虽然只是一场普通的分站赛，但是由于Loeb breaks Nordic domination. 打破了北欧车手对瑞典站的垄断，可以说意义非凡。
Sebastien Loeb’s Swedish Rally win was the first by a driver from outside Scandinavia in the history of the rally.
