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Rest in Peace, Pentti.
I met him only once at 1987 Rocky Mountain Rally, in Pincher Creek, Alberta. 1st round of Canadian Championship.
A crazy Canadian had arranged to fly Pentti over to do a little school and then drive this guys own car with the normal driver co-driving.
Let us be nice and say the car was pretty rough for a piece of crap Mazda RX3.
Pentti was very cheerful, very polite when I asked about the car (Holy sheeet poiki you're driving THAT????!!!) and FLEW. Killed the car, blew everything up and flipped.
I saw the owner later and he said he had cramps from smiling so long and hard "2 gears higher everywhere than I can drive, sideways everywhere, I can't co-drive, winning stages till we killed the car. Best time rally I ever had!!!!"
Maybe now that he has infinite time somebody can explain to him why "motor-bike gearshifts" are so nice.
Bye bye.
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RIP Pentti!
It was great having you on the forums here!
You will be dearly missed by us all.
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Rest in Peace Pentti
Pentti you were great to have around on the forums and were willing to answer any and all questions. You had a successful rally career and you will be dearly missed!
Rest in Peace Pentti.
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Well this is hypocritical to bash crash.net before and post this, but this is the interview I could find on Google of Pentti. I remembered he said something about race drivers vs rally drivers that may be controversial, but is also a really great point that earned my respect even more: http://www.crash.net/World+Rally/New...exclusive.html
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I`ve been off line for a few days, and I just logged on to this....... RIP Pentti, I`m stunned.
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