2008 Neste Oil Rally Finland - official thread

Jussi Kynsilehto and his Polski Fiat 125p for RX in 1977 at Maasmechelen/Belgium. © rx-guru

Same 1977 meeting: Jussi (left), Norwegian Per Engseth and Austrian Herbert Grünsteidl (right). © rx-guru

So lads and lassies, if there will ever be discussions about "the true Flying Finn" – it is the one to the left of this pic. ;)

Nice pics, rx-g. You knew Jussi personally at the time?

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Originally Posted by jonkka

Nice pics, rx-g. You knew Jussi personally at the time?

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Yep jonkka, I met Jussi quite often in RX events during the second half of the 1970s. He and the late Martti Kangas (who later used the alias "Jorma Kovanen" when driving a MG Metro 6R4 BiTurbo for RX and was shot by his drunken brother-in-law in 1994) were the first two Finns to show up regularely in pan-European RX events.

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Originally Posted by rx-guru

"Jorma Kovanen"

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LOL, funny

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Originally Posted by Torsen

i wish there was more hi res images from finland 2008 that don't have an ugly photography logo (copyright) on it... i'm all for giving credit where credit is due... but i can't believe so many people take such awesome hi res images then taint them :-(

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Problem is if you don't "taint" them then others will steal them and pretend that it's their work. It's happened to me.....

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Originally Posted by Tomi

LOL, funny

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As one who understands just about 100 Finnish words: Does Jorma Kovanen mean something funny?

Jorma= a usual Finnish nickname for your.. dick. kova= 'hard'

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Originally Posted by rx-guru

As one who understands just about 100 Finnish words: Does Jorma Kovanen mean something funny?

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It can mean. "Jorma" is often used nick-name for male organ and "Kovanen" means hard (or literally little hard but anyway). Note that Jorma Kovanen is perfectly legal name anyway, there are seven with that name in Finnish phone directory at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Juha

Not everyone has the space to put so much hi res stuff online. ;)

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People could do a big zip file and put on rapidshare.com or megaupload.com ... you have to download them all without a preview though, with a 56k it can be a pain (I have 7MB ADSL so no problem :p !).

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Originally Posted by tmx

i hate to admit but after he won finland, i feel loeb is so strong now, i think he might win all events left, maybe beside great britain. unless ford employ tactics or he gets some bad luck. the remaining rally you don't gain much advantage by sweaping, especially during these months the road could be damp or wet. it got to be some kind of miracle for mikko to take driver champion this year.

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Is that a surprise ? The surprise was having Mikko ahead 3 points in championship before Finland...