Rally New Zealand 2022

[EstWRC]

[janneppi]

I guess it was easier for Rovanperä to aim for fastest time instead of fourth in the power stage.

Two bad rallies didn't shake him at all. Very good drive.



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[Eli]

Only shame is we can’t see the podium celebrations and him being the world title, I doubt anyone will beat this record for quite a while.

[Rallyper]

Congrats to Kalle and Jonne and to you Finnish fans and friends.
The greatest rally nation in the world finally got their new champion. What a day to celebrate. New national day for Finland parallell to 6th of December?

[Humber]

What I find interesting is that Toyota struggled massively in Greece, Hyundai struggled here....but Puma was near the top on both rounds. Just that the car (Greece) or drivers (NZ) aren't reliable.

Looks like the Toyotas and Fords (slightly less) are better in the stages with higher average speeds and probably higher cornering slide speeds. Hyundai appears to be better with slower speed stages with slower slides. NZ winner average speed Toyota 99.9 km/h and Greece winner Hyundai average speed 84.7 km/h

[EstWRC]

Q:
If you could go back to the pace on Friday – Saturday it ebbed away. Is there a reason why?
OT:
We were having some transmission troubles again on Saturday and since we already had one in Greece, we did not have anything to put in and we had to make it to the finish. We had to manage it as good as possible so we did not lose too much but that’s how it was.

Full press https://www.fia.com/news/wrc-k-rovan...world-champion

[Jarek Z]

Congrats to Kalle and Jonne and to you Finnish fans and friends.
The greatest rally nation in the world finally got their new champion. What a day to celebrate. New national day for Finland parallell to 6th of December?

The WRC crown goes to Finland after a 20-year break! Congratulations!!!

[flykas]

Not sure I'd call two 4th times on a rally with low entry and lots of retirements as "quick".

But I agree that this and Ypres is what he needs to be doing to advance in his driving. Drive at good but safe pace and learn, instead of pushing every stage and having a moment on every second.

Just as in Ypres it also shows he is not (yet?) an asset in manu fight and he should not be. The whole idea of using him as nominated driver is wrong and adds unnecessary pressure. (Which is obviously lifted since mid season as manu title is decided, but in Monte it's there again).

Totally agree. I was thinking that maybe being good at rally cross is creating additional pressure on him to be instantly good in wrc, while I think at the moment he should put less pressure on himself, be humble and learn a bit and he'd be fine.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

A quite brilliant rally win by Kalle on a new event with very tricky conditions. It showed his true skill and bravery.

And to do this with the pressure of the chance of clinching the world title proved his mental toughness at this young age.

A very worthy new World Rally Champion and the scary fact that he will only get better !

[flykas]

Amazing season and win for Kalle. Also a great moment in WRC history. I remember this year's Monte when he was really struggling with new gen cars, I was thinking "yeah, this might be too soon" and here we are now. What a force and I don't see this trajectory changing soon unless Tanak gets a better car or somehow Hyundai magically gets their stuff together for next season. Congrats to Kalle and Jonne and for all the Fins for getting theyr title back:]