Finnish rallying championship news

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It doesn't work...

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It has been online for a moment. But god, such a poor quality...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPBq...e_gdata_player

When historic cars crash heavily, it's always nasty outcome. This here was a Talbot.

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Please remember that second to last round of Finnish championship is going in. It started already yesterday with two stages being run in the darkness. A lot of happenings too, Åhlin crashed, Vihavainen crashed but continues, ... Juha Salo had the shortest rally ever as his car's electrics died when lights went green on start line of SS1. Joni Nikko out with technical issue, same for Jaro Kinnunen. Matias Kauppinen and SM2 leader Jussi Vainionpää retired as well.

Respective overnight leaders are Teemu Asunmaa (by 0,1s), Marko Mänty and Joonas Lindroos.

Results: Tulossivu
GPS tracking: gpsseuranta.net - SM-ralli Turku, lauantai

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Are all the Finns sleeping it off or something? Propably most dramatic rally of the season. On the 4wd side Salo retired on Friday, Vihavainen went off the road and Nikko had problems. On Saturday Nikko had a big high speed crash only 1km from the start. After check up the crew luckily relatively OK. Turku winner being Mäenpää before Asunmaa and Tiippana. Who would have guessed. We would have been fourth, but because of co-driver(that's me) mistake with a time card we recieved 1minute time penalty and ended up sixth only 12 seconds from the fourth place. Not 100% sure how I managed to do the time card mistake.... No words to describe how sorry I am for the driver. On the positive side our speed was the best during the whole season. Looking forward to final round in Tampere.
In SM2 class Ruotsalainen won before, Veikkanen and Vainionpää. Vainionpää had a lucky escape when his brake pedal went to the floor on Friday evening.
In SM3 also technical problems, off roading etc. After the final stage Lindroos won, before Haapamäki and Pinomäki.

All the drama in Turku promises that many crews will enter final FRC round in Tampere with maximum attack mode

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Any videos? Please!

What about Åhlin´s crash. How is car and crew? Was it Fiesta R2?

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Any videos? Please!

What about Åhlin´s crash. How is car and crew? Was it Fiesta R2?

From youtube some videos can be found with "turku ralli 2013" or something similar searches. Here is Nikko's crash SM Turku Ralli Ek 3 Joni Nikko - YouTube

Åhlin was driving with a Fiesta R2. Enough damage not to continue, but I guess nothing very bad with the car. The crew unhurt as far as I know so that's the main thing.

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My friend's pictures from the event: Turku SM-ralli 2013

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Joni Nikko's huge crash from onboard video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpB0UJVlHbU

Picture from outside:



And the morning after... being rebuilt: