[WRC] Rally Finland 2013

[donlorean]

One main reason why route is like it is comes from teams... They don't want remote services. COC Tarkiainen asked about teams that what kind of rally they want and now it is like they wanted... Without remote service there is no chance to do more stages. Of course there is a chance to drive more different stages but there is very difficult to find totally new stages near Jyväskylä... All possible stages are driven many times in previous years. Second reason is that organizers want that most of the spectators stays where they are all day. There are so many spectators that if everyone moves to another stage there is hell of a traffic jam...

[Franky]

Second reason is that organizers want that most of the spectators stays where they are all day. There are so many spectators that if everyone moves to another stage there is hell of a traffic jam...

Well, moving between stages is for me at least always fun, you never know will you be on time or not for the stage you're going to. And staying at the same place for the whole day is a bit like watching circuit racing.

[Hartusvuori]

Well, moving between stages is for me at least always fun, you never know will you be on time or not for the stage you're going to. And staying at the same place for the whole day is a bit like watching circuit racing.

There are people that go spectating rallies and people that read this forum and go spectating rallies. Of course moving between stages, planning it all, is always more than half of the fun :-)

[bluuford]

There are people that go spectating rallies and people that read this forum and go spectating rallies. Of course moving between stages, planning it all, is always more than half of the fun :-)

Well, this is the reason why I just love winter rallies. I was together with one friend and our equipment was: Primus, 10m long rope, shovel, 2 pairs of cross-country skis, snowshoes :-) We used them all! For one stage we parked the car on the parallel road, took the skis, found some snow-mobile tracks 1.5 km skiing, then we changed our skis to snowshoes and jumped on the snow-piles :-) That was quick, fun and comfortable!

[donlorean]

Well, moving between stages is for me at least always fun, you never know will you be on time or not for the stage you're going to. And staying at the same place for the whole day is a bit like watching circuit racing.

Of course it is... That's the way I like i also but that time is gone in Rally Finland. Unfortunately... I think that problem is not those true rally fan's who chance place from the stage to stage... Problem is when all other 70-80% of spectators are going to do the same...

[Hartusvuori]

Extra events for Rally Finland, Nelivetomies (old WRC and FIN R 4WD) and Vetomies (Gr.F, 2WD) will be run joint with the main event this year. 4WD oldies will run in Friday and Saturday between WRC cars on all stages run twice. On Saturday 2WD Vetomies drivers will run after 4WD Vetomies drivers on each of the 4 stages. Maximum entries are 30 for 4WD and 50 for 2WD, altogether 80. Top drivers from Suomi Cup (FRCs oldies cup) and F-Cup will get priority in the entries so that all the best would be tackling the stages.

Vetomies is back!

[Hartusvuori]

Extra events for Rally Finland, Nelivetomies (old WRC and FIN R 4WD) and Vetomies (Gr.F, 2WD) will be run joint with the main event this year. 4WD oldies will run in Friday and Saturday between WRC cars on all stages run twice. On Saturday 2WD Vetomies drivers will run after 4WD Vetomies drivers on each of the 4 stages. Maximum entries are 30 for 4WD and 50 for 2WD, altogether 80. Top drivers from Suomi Cup (FRCs oldies cup) and F-Cup will get priority in the entries so that all the best would be tackling the stages.

Vetomies is back!

[MartijnS]

Booked!
Tuesday till sunday, we found some Student Dorm in Jyvaskala to stay

[Rallyper]

One main reason why route is like it is comes from teams... They don't want remote services. COC Tarkiainen asked about teams that what kind of rally they want and now it is like they wanted... Without remote service there is no chance to do more stages. Of course there is a chance to drive more different stages but there is very difficult to find totally new stages near Jyväskylä... All possible stages are driven many times in previous years. Second reason is that organizers want that most of the spectators stays where they are all day. There are so many spectators that if everyone moves to another stage there is hell of a traffic jam...

Having one stage near Lahti makes things look the opposite though. It´s only a very long liason down to Lahti and could instead render in new stages.

[Hartusvuori]

Having one stage near Lahti makes things look the opposite though. It´s only a very long liason down to Lahti and could instead render in new stages.

Last year it was more like that. Now it's one short stage and one proper stage on the way to and back from Lahti. Of course there could always be more, but this year's Thursday schedule much more logical than last year. SS Himos in its new form is okeyish spectator stage, kind of like SS Laajavuori. First half of the stage is basically hillclimb, and once you get on top, there's only one way - down. There are few corners worth considering on the first part. The downhill part was hard to recce now as it's still covered in snow (or was two weeks ago).