2008 Neste Oil Rally Finland - official thread

[rx-guru]

@ Tomi, Miika, jonkka: Kiitos! Blimey, it took me nearly 20 years to find out the joke behind Martti Jalmari Kangas’ pseudonym… I was told that their family business, a shoemaker company called 'Finn Lord Shoes', went down the drain and Martti later used an alias to continue racing because of the tax men.

[Tomi]

A lousy 50m jump? Rallycrosser Jussi Kynsilehto (guided by rally guru Martin Holmes by then) from Oulo did about 70m in 1975 at SS Raikuu with a, by nowadays standards, tame Ford Escort RS1600 BDA. But afterwards it was all but a RS1600 BDA… LOL

I remember heard or reading from somewhere that the notes they used was borrowed from Timo Mäkinen, and Timo did not make notes of all small crests, thats why Holmes dropped of the note.

[OldF]

At the one bend and one junction I had a change to compare the driving styles off Seb and Mikko they where completely different. The first place was here:

SS16 & 19, Kakaristo about 700 m from start. High speeds bend to right (nice place):

http://maps.google.fi/maps?f=q&hl=fi&geocode=&q=j%C3%A4ms%C3%A4&mrt=all&sll=62.593341,27.575684&sspn=9.14586,28.300781&ie=UTF8&ll=61.787916,25.155301&spn=0.00915,0.043945&z=15

They where coming from north and I was watching on Takalantie. I couldn’t see the end of the bend but Mikko throw the car sideways before the bend and Seb drove with a “straight” line from the left side of the road to the inside of the bend. Mikko was the only one who throws the car sideways before the bend.

The second place was here:

SS24, Ruuhimäki about 3,7 km from start:

http://maps.google.fi/maps?f=q&hl=fi&geocode=&q=ruuhim%C3%A4ki&mrt=all&sll=61.786963,25.151696&sspn=0.008562,0.043945&ie=UTF8&ll=62.221426,26.155379&spn=0.00422,0.021973&z=16

They where coming from Kotamäentie and turned to Ruuhimäentie. Here I couldn’t see how that approached the junction but Seb came out of the junction with a four-wheel slide to outside of the road. Mikko had already turned the car when he came out of the junction and was quite close to the right side of the road after the junction. Here Petter Solberg used the same line as Seb and Henning Solberg used the same line as Mikko. Maybe the other driving style is faster on broader roads and the other one on more narrow roads.

Sami, You have made some analysis of different driving styles in another thread, what do you think?

[rallyemotions]

rallyemotions.net is presenting the first gallery from Neste Oil Rally Finland 2008 (http://www.rallyemotions.net/NORF_08/). Second gallery (in a weeks time) will feature a full story of Villagra's roll at SS20. Enjoy! :)

[feresc13]

Nice pics rallyemotions!!

This are the ones that I like the most

http://www.rallyemotions.net/NORF_08/image68097.jpg

http://www.rallyemotions.net/NORF_08/image68100.jpg

[jbmarcus21]

Nice pics rallyemotions!!

This are the ones that I like the most

http://www.rallyemotions.net/NORF_08/image68097.jpg

http://www.rallyemotions.net/NORF_08/image68100.jpg


wowww great jump // Where is this jump please ?

[Viktory]

Looks to me like the jump on Palsankylä, a bit more than 2/3 of the way through roughly. Was there in 2007. Pretty crazy when driving, the road literally falls away from underneath you!

[jbmarcus21]

thanks !

[rallyemotions]

Viktory is right, that's the place! :) Most of the Ford's were fearless on this jump.

[PuddleJumper]

Just finished loading my photos from Finland.
Action from 6 stages plus the shakedown.
http://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/sd/179t.jpghttp://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/ss2/005t.jpghttp://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/ss6/041t.jpghttp://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/ss14/029t.jpghttp://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/ss17/038t.jpg (http://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/index.html)

[CABAIO E'LONA]

Just finished loading my photos from Finland.
Action from 6 stages plus the shakedown.
http://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/sd/179t.jpghttp://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/ss2/005t.jpghttp://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/ss6/041t.jpghttp://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/ss14/029t.jpghttp://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/ss17/038t.jpg (http://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/index.html)

great photos!

[jbmarcus21]

pics throught Finland..

http://planetemarcus.free.fr/finlandrally08.htm

[Tomi]

pics throught Finland..

http://planetemarcus.free.fr/finlandrally08.htm

Lol, your pics made me want to eat fish, nice pics.

[DonJippo]

Just finished loading my photos from Finland.
Action from 6 stages plus the shakedown.
http://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/sd/179t.jpghttp://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/ss6/041t.jpghttp://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/ss14/029t.jpg (http://www.powerphoto.co.uk/rally/wrc2008/rd9/index.html)

Great pics :up: When we get to see "the other" pictures :p

[bluuford]

Found very good conclusive video about rally Finland:
http://rallyvideos.net/videod/videogalerii_est.html
I like the good quality of that video :-)

[michpetter]

Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch the Killeri SSS on Eurosport 2 :(
And I cannot find it in the internet.
I would be very grateful if someone can help me.

[OldF]

Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch the Killeri SSS on Eurosport 2 :(
And I cannot find it in the internet.
I would be very grateful if someone can help me.

At least you can watch it here (only in Finnish): http://nettitv.mtv3.fi/maksuttomat/index.shtml/maksuttomat/ralli/suomi

Browse down at the left until you see “Killeri Ek1 (koko lähetys).

Torstai = Thursday
Perjantai = Friday
Lauantai = Saturday
Sunnuntai = guess

[J4MIE]

I noticed today that Easyjet are shortly going to start flying from Gatwick to Helsinki, might be a good option for next year :up:

[pino]

Great pics :up: When we get to see "the other" pictures :p

By Xmas if we are lucky :p :

[PuddleJumper]

By Xmas if we are lucky
You'd be able to look at them now if my webhost was working.

[michpetter]

At least you can watch it here (only in Finnish): http://nettitv.mtv3.fi/maksuttomat/index.shtml/maksuttomat/ralli/suomi

Many thanks :)

So bad I don't know Finnish at all :/

Could someone translate me this: Jos ei mitään yritä ei mitään myöskään saa

[OldF]

Jos ei mitään yritä ei mitään myöskään saa = If you don't try you don't get anything.