Finnish rallying championship news

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Where is Mikkelsen?

[Hartusvuori]

Mikkelsen on SS1? Salo, Nikko AND Vihavainen already through.

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I just noticed that it is -21 in Rovaniemi right now :-)
Mikkelsen narrowly fastest, not very good time

[Hartusvuori]

Apparently Mikkelsen not running first on the road then. Good that he's through.

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Non-starters:

5.Jukka Ketomäki(M)/Kai Risberg(K) sm1 Skoda Octavia WRC
10.Kari Hämäläinen(M)/Risto Pietiläinen(K sm1 Ford Fiesta S2000
13.Jari Latvala(M)/Kari Mustalahti(K) sm1 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
20.Oleksii Tamrazov/Pavlo Cherepin sm1 Ford Fiesta S2000
60.Petri Itkonen(M)/Janno Older(K) sm3 Citroen C2 R2
73.Maximilian Koch/Stefan Weigel sm1 Subaru Impreza WRX Sti
83.Juha Linna/Arto Jokela sc4 Ford Sierra RS Cosworth
102.Petri Söyring/Jani Laine sc10 Opel Kadett GTE

[Jeppe]

Apparently Mikkelsen not running first on the road then. Good that he's through.

He is 1st on the road - after the course cars of course It really seems to be very good position to drive, because there will big amount of ´snow dust´ floating in the air after cars and it won´t fade away cause wind speed is 0 m/s at the moment. Dust will cause major problems in the evening stages...

[Hartusvuori]

He is 1st on the road - after the course cards of course But it really seems to be very good position to drive, because there will big amount of ´snow dust´ in the air after cars and it won´t fade away cause wind speed is 0 m/s at the moment. Dust will cause major problems in the evening stages...

OK. So it was just gimmick on timing.

SS2top runners now through. Mikkelsen 6.0s faster than Salo on 24 kms.

[Tom206wrc]

Where's Jonas Lindroos on SS1

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Where's Jonas Lindroos on SS1

44th. After SS2 he's now fastest 2WD. Top three in SM3 is tight though, top 3 within 2 seconds.

[Tom206wrc]

OK after SS2 less than 2" between Lindroos, Pinomäki and Kinnunen :