National Rally championships News

[Mirek]

AFAIK Gr.N cars are allowed to use ethanol as a fuel in Hungary. Maybe part of the reason.

[Hartusvuori]

Seeded entry list for round 6 of Finnish Rally Championship, POPPankki Lapua Rally, June 11th:
http://www.lapuanua.fi/@Bin/121722/P...ht%C3%A4ri.pdf

Rally will have four special stages, first and fourth being the same stage. Total competetive distance is around 94 kilometres, total rally distance 169 kms. All stages are longer than 20 kilometres, longest being SS1/4 above 24 kms. SS1/4 and SS3 will also have some tarmac sections, 12,5 kms in total.

First cars as follows: (-1 hour for CET)
SS1 - 12.19
SS2 - 14.12
SS3 - 14.44
SS4 - 16.32

Live results will appear in here: Tulossivu
Championship standings: http://www.rallism.fi/attachements/2...0-06-05318.pdf
Points will be given to top 10 as follows: 22-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2

Group F Vetomies rally will be held together with FRC events in Lapua and Kerava (September 17th). However, in Lapua there are only 19 entries to Vetomies event. Unfortunalately there's a date clash with 1000 Lakes Rally, a historic event held on the familiar 1000 Lakes stages on the same day and that lured more Gr. F drivers.

And as it've been mentioned earlier, at FRC Lapua, Jari-Matti Latvala will drive Ford Escort BDA as a course car. He is a rally official but nevertheless will be driving as he likes - fast.

[Allar]

Where is Hämäläinen Karis Fiesta from? their own team or rented somewhere?

[Fly]

Norwegian championship

Aurskog Høland Rally

1 2 Anders Grøndal Veronica Engan Subaru Impreza WRC A 8 53:35.0 0:00.0
2 1 Mads Østberg Marlene Engan Ford Fiesta S2000 N 4 54:32.0 0:57.0
3 4 Sveinung Bieltvedt Roger Eilertsen Subaru Impreza STi N 4 54:50.7 1:15.7
4 6 Svein Frustøl Ragnar Klami Ford Focus WRC A 8 55:36.1 2:01.1
5 3 Marius Aasen Tom Andre Haldammen Subaru Impreza STi N 4 56:04.2 2:29.2
6 7 Pål Try Lars W. Andersen Ford Focus WRC A 8 56:41.7 3:06.7
7 10 Peder Økseter Marie Hofsløkken Subaru Impreza STi N 4 56:49.6 3:14.6
8 15 Frank Tore Larsen Torstein Eriksen Ford Fiesta R2 A 6 58:08.9 4:33.9
9 8 Jim Roger Haugom Marius Eng Subaru Impreza STi N 4 58:29.9 4:54.9
10 13 Marius Dahl Kay Ødegård Ford Fiesta ST N 3 58:34.3 4:59.3
11 16 Petter Kristiansen Ole Kristian Brennum Ford Fiesta ST N 3 58:39.3 5:04.3
12 11 Steve Røkland Kim Hjalmarsen Ford Fiesta ST N 3 58:40.1 5:05.1
13 14 Petter Rolfsen Rune Eilertsen Ford Fiesta ST A 7 58:47.7 5:12.7

[pantealex]

Where is Hämäläinen Karis Fiesta from? their own team or rented somewhere?

His own, ex.Tuohino car
Print Sport Racing is taking care of car.

[modri dirkac]

26. Rally Velenje, 3. round of the Slovenian Championship. Short rally and modest entry list, Piero Longhi still instead of Aleks Humar ...

Seeded entry list:
http://www.as2005.eu/adminPanel/dato...lenje_2011.pdf

Home page of the rally:
26. AMTK Rally Velenje

[PLuto]

Aleks Humar will be missing few weeks...

[HaCo]

Quite interesting development in Australia:
RallySport Magazine - ARC CEO thrilled with 2WD rally car progress

I like the idea of privateers being able to build cars that can compete against manufacturers. Just like in the UK, original N4 will be banned. Instead FWD and RWD cars will compete against each other.

Hope this will atract more teams and drivers!

[tolis]

Ari Vihavainen won POP Pankki SM-Ralli in Finland. Rantanen was leading before last stage, Salo was second but both retired.
1.Vihavainen
2.Lindroos (+5.3)
3.Tahko (+9.8)
Final results: Tulossivu

[HarriK]

My photo from end of the SS3 Lapua :
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net..._2154346_n.jpg

Juha Salo's evo x (second overall before that), car just "puff" got flames behind the car at the stage end TC. I was 300m before finnish watching and he has no problems there.

Lappi (C2R2max) and Kinnunen(Honda Civic) crashed at the first stage.