Neste Rally Finland 2017

[Lawrence Clift]

Slightly off topic...... We drove from the UK to Finland (my son wanted a road trip ) and left on the Monday before the rally via France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to get to our hotel near to the Laukka stage. Shakedown was just stunning! I'm not ashamed to say that I had tears in my eyes as we were finally able to see and hear the cars rather than watch them on videos. Friday we saw 4 stages (Halinen and Laukka) and, on Saturday, left our hotel at 3AM to go to the yellow house jump on Ouninpohja where we arrived at 04.30! We weren't the first spectators there although we had a great position. After the jump we went to what was probably my favourite stage, the Kakaristo hairpin on Ouninpohja. The atmosphere was fantastic within the 2k+ spectators especially when the two remaining Toyota's came into view. In the 8 days of travelling, we totaled 6,540 Km's...... Here's a video showing our memories from the rally. Thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJwz-tFOkcA&t=0s