Toyota announces WRC plans

[janvanvurpa]

Location. Though it's good for testing, as Tommi says, it's remote. They'll have longer commute and supply routes to events which costs more and team personnel and equipment will spend more time on the road.

But most importantly, what about team personnel? Who are they going to hire for key positions? I see only bad options:
-locals (good for manual labour, sure)
-people willing to relocate to icy reaches (whose intellect that puts into doubt)
-people working remotely from civilization (not an ideal way to work in a team)

Jonka I looked on map for Puuppola and I see that in addition to millions of km of fantastic gravel roads, there are actually some things that look like highways...yeah! Really! And i bet those highways go someplace---eventually...
But it's nothing that planning can't solve---and a operation like this is really ALL about planning, so no problem.

On the City web sajt it says they actually have some schools:

The University of Jyväskylä and the JAMK University of Applied Sciences are among the most popular higher education institutions in Finland.

That means at least there is electricity and phones and probably even internet connection.
And I bet it works..

You do bring up very serious points about finding people willing to relocate and live in remote place by normal civilised standards but maybe we can agree that for rally driving, rally mechanicing and especially basic designs that a absolute need is the ability to concentrate and to be what I call "Mission directed"...to concentrate on the task.

Certainly anybody applying to work there must be aware of that and have worked out the balancing act in their head needed..


Nothing at a high level like this is a 9 to 5 job..

My only thought is the enormous difficulty--the virtual impossibility---of rapidly learning Finnish for those times when the imported talent is not busy designing, inventing, welding, machining, testing..

But with a University there I imagine that the imported talent can have opportunity to meet and get to know one of Finlands best home grown products: the friendly Finnish women...

And then they will probably be very happy employees...