A bit offtopic ("Ott Tänak") here, but on the larger topic "why rally is so popular in Estonia".
Got free time yesterday and visited cinema - "Legends of the winding road" (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK-U18XmkWM).
Rally was first boomed behing iron curtains during soviet time 80+, how many good drivers there were and how they handle or the USSR things.
How they built rally machines. In soviet russia, it was not possible to just buy a car - you needed to have permission from "high level" etc. And how they tuned rally cars with titanium parts or plane parts. Huge part of getting required materials and parts were "you need to know correct persons" and based on corruption. You may have a lot of "wtf" moments when you don't know the soviet system or background.
It's worth watching for 2 reasons:
* to understand the polical idiotism during that time - especially useful when you don't know how "the russian world" works
* to understand why rally got so popular in Estonia (actually I was wondering it myself) - there were a lot of rallystars 1980-1990, and it got popular on that time. It grew entire generation of enthusiasts and those generated new starts like Märtin and Tänak. This is huge momentum for small country like Estonia.
And to be on the topic here - Tänak was also present in the movie (at the very end) to basically conclude what I just wrote here.
Hats off for the movie team to store the memory of that era.