Henning Solberg with Saab 9-3 at Hell World Rallycross

Reinis Nitiss wins round three of the Rallycross World Championship in Norway this weekend. Reinis Nitiss might be a genius mathematician but he’s also super-quick in rallycross based on his starring drive to victory in round three of the world championship in Norway today.

Aged 18, the Latvian maths student took his maiden World RX win at the Hell track near Trondheim in the north of the country, narrowly defeating local hero and former WRC champion Petter Solberg in the process.

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Swede Hansen was nudged wide at the first corner following a hefty swipe from Henning Solberg’s Saab 9-2 and finished a distant sixth. Just behind the Norwegian, Timmy Hansen, Henning Solberg and Ken Block piled into the joker section, Hansen leaving a small gap into which Solberg dived with his Saab 93.

Hansen was forced wide and succumbed to steering damage, while Block cleared the older of the Solberg brothers.

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Goran AničićJune 18, 2014

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For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.