This is a brand new stage for 2007. It has lots of long, sweeping corners and a surface that's like an ice-rink. The organisers have been spraying it with water for weeks, and the ice base is now about six inches deep. I'm sure this one will be a hit with the spectators, especially the jump - it's the biggest one I've ever seen.

This is one we've tackled before. It's the most northerly stage and finishes on a rallycross track. Notably, this was used as the first stage of the rally in 2005, and Loeb went off at the first junction, 3.5km from the start. It's an easy mistake to make - there is a left-hand junction before a quick right-hander 700 metres further on, in a downhill section. The last 2.5km are very tight and twisty and it becomes a lot narrower.

This stage was run as SS7 and SS10 last year. It's a narrow and technical run through the forests. There is a spectator point 3km from the start line where the road kinks left then right, but it's not a very open road at all. I estimate we'll be doing well over 100kph on average through this one.

Last year this stage used a slightly different route, but this version is identical to the one used in 2005. The start is exceptionally fast, with lots of 200 and 300-metre straights and very big crests. Then it turns left into a narrow, technical section. There are lots of rocks there and it's easy to puncture a tyre. Then it stays technical until the end. We stay in the middle of road for last two thirds of the stage, because it is so easy to pick up a puncture.

Exactly the same as 2005. Most of this stage was used last year too, apart from the last couple of kilometres. It starts fast then, after about 4km, it turns left at a junction and gets very technical with dips, crests and 90-degree bends. About 10km from the start we go over one of the biggest jumps of the rally, it's pretty famous and there'll be lots of spectators there. There are actually three jumps, but the famous one, named Colin's crest after a particularly wild landing by the Scot, is far bigger than the others. Sometimes the cars can be launched 2.5 metres off ground. The stage then turns right after jump and becomes very fast. It's a big wide, open main road for the last 4km to the finish.

Run under floodlights at night. This one is a relatively slow spectator stage where the cars run one at a time. It's normally very icy and we'll be lucky to hit an average speed of over 50kph. It's extremely narrow and twisty and organisers use hay bales to mark out the route.

This stage was used last year as well. It is a lot narrower than the others, especially the first part. After 6km we go over a bridge, turn left, and from then on it's very fast and technical to the finish.

This stage is a mixture of old and new. It uses two sections of the classic Rammen test, which we drove last year, but the start, middle and end of Liljendal are different. The first 22km are brand new, it's quite fast and flowing, then it joins the old stage and gets a bit more twisty. There is a sequence of uphill hairpins which are pretty famous - it's where Marcus Gronholm rolled last year. That's a good place to spectate from too. From that point it gets very fast towards the end, with some huge crests right up to the line.

Tweaked a little bit for 2007, the first 6km and last 10km are the same as last year, but there's a different section in the middle. The stage skirts round the edge of a lake and the last 4km are particularly tricky; it's predominantly downhill, very technical with lots of blind corners after crests and some very slippery corners. The potential to get it wrong here is huge. The stage ends with a fantastic flying finish on a right-hand hairpin.

Identical to the version used in 2006. Most of this stage is fast and quite narrow, so you have to be careful. There are long straights with crests and sometimes corners hidden right behind them. We finish in a timberyard after a sequence of several tight junctions. Despite the twists, it's one of the quickest stages in the event with an average approaching 120kph.

A brand new challenge for this year. The opening 13km is completely new but the second half uses part of the Sundsjon test from last year, but run in the reverse direction. Open and flowing at the start, the road later opens out to a tricky downhill section, crosses a dam and skirts the lake edge - it's flat-out all the way here. The road takes us back into the forest for the last 9km, where it's very narrow and tricky with lots of rocks to watch out for.

This stage has remained unchanged for years and is the shortest of the event if you don't count the Superspecials in Hagfors and Karlstad. The first section is quite narrow through woodland, then at 5km we turn leave the forest and head down to a lakeside road. The rest of the stage is downhill, fast, flowing and quite wide. It's It may be a short stage, but over the years it's been the setting for quite a lot of drama on this rally.