Finnish rallying championship news

[pantealex]

Toyota Gazoo juniors Takamoto Katsuta and Hiroki Arai will drive all 6 rallies (3 winter and 3 gravel)

[Hartusvuori]

Finnish Rallying Championship 2016, some news:

- Kristian Kiviniemi have bought a DS 3 R5 (ex-Olsen from Norway). They try to compete with it for the first time in 2nd round in Mikkeli. Arctic Rally they'll do with an Evo X (ex-Salo), unless it's sold before the event.
- Jarmo Berg will compete with Fabia S2000 (ex-Sääv from Sweden). Last year Berg was very spectacular, no guts, no glory kind of driver with C2, so of course we expect nothing less with the new car.
- Ville Hautamäki will compete with Gr. N Subaru. He has been top contender in 2WD with Honda for many years (reigning champion), but he has never competed in 4WD. Nice for a change.
- Mikko Lehessaari has entered the series with Fabia R5. Earlier the rumour had it that he might not do the whole series, but we'll see. He has not competed in 2 years, so getting rid of the wrist rust is the first thing.
- Mikko Eskelinen will do the whole series in Lancer WRC step2. As for Arctic Rally, there are two other Lancer WRCs on the list too.
- Still a lot unknown things for me as far as - for example - who'll drive Gardemeister's Fabia R5, who'll drive Printsport's R5s, etc.

F-Cup isn't F-Cup this year. It's a promoter owned brand, competitors were unhappy how the promoter handled things and demanded an intervention from our ASN, AKK. That happened. Brand owner brought F-Cup brand to Harrastemoottoriurheilu (which is now established organisation who also organize events, but with looser interpretation of the regs) with whom they should do the series in 2017 (this year they do a rallysprint F-Cup). AKK's F-series is called F-rallisarja and that is practically the continuation of the old F-Cup now. A bit of mess, you don't say.

[Micke_VOC]

Finnish Rallying Championship 2016, some news:

- Kristian Kiviniemi have bought a DS 3 R5 (ex-Olsen from Norway). They try to compete with it for the first time in 2nd round in Mikkeli. Arctic Rally they'll do with an Evo X (ex-Salo), unless it's sold before the event.
- Jarmo Berg will compete with Fabia S2000 (ex-Sääv from Sweden). Last year Berg was very spectacular, no guts, no glory kind of driver with C2, so of course we expect nothing less with the new car.
- Ville Hautamäki will compete with Gr. N Subaru. He has been top contender in 2WD with Honda for many years (reigning champion), but he has never competed in 4WD. Nice for a change.
- Mikko Lehessaari has entered the series with Fabia R5. Earlier the rumour had it that he might not do the whole series, but we'll see. He has not competed in 2 years, so getting rid of the wrist rust is the first thing.
- Mikko Eskelinen will do the whole series in Lancer WRC step2. As for Arctic Rally, there are two other Lancer WRCs on the list too.
- Still a lot unknown things for me as far as - for example - who'll drive Gardemeister's Fabia R5, who'll drive Printsport's R5s, etc.

F-Cup isn't F-Cup this year. It's a promoter owned brand, competitors were unhappy how the promoter handled things and demanded an intervention from our ASN, AKK. That happened. Brand owner brought F-Cup brand to Harrastemoottoriurheilu (which is now established organisation who also organize events, but with looser interpretation of the regs) with whom they should do the series in 2017 (this year they do a rallysprint F-Cup). AKK's F-series is called F-rallisarja and that is practically the continuation of the old F-Cup now. A bit of mess, you don't say.

Thanks for the info !

[tommeke_B]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0CXl8xBgEw Just another day in Finland...

[HarriK]

Arctic Rally competitor list: (click "osallistujat)
https://akk.autourheilu.fi/Public/Ki...id=4324&edit=0

[pantealex]

Arctic Rally competitor list: (click "osallistujat)
https://akk.autourheilu.fi/Public/Ki...id=4324&edit=0

5 of them driving also in WRC Sweden
Al-Rahji Fiesta WRC
Pärn Fiesta R5
Shamiev Fiesta R5
Mayer P208T16 R5
Laivola 207 S2000

It´s allowed to use both:
15" WRC tyres (wide)
16" narrow tyres

[Rallyper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0CXl8xBgEw Just another day in Finland...

Really hard one. I dont understand why marshalls dont put up warnings after a couple of crashes. They seems to have very high speed before the righthander.

[HarriK]

Arctic Rally has started.
Nikara really fastest at SS1. Beat Salo over 15sec at 24km long stage.
Al Rahji crashes before 5km at the stage.

GPS for all cars: http://www.tulospalvelu.fi/gps/3R16_1/?v=m3

Results: http://www.rallism.fi/content/fi/3/2...etulokset.html

Split times: http://gpspekka.kapsi.fi/rally/?id=3R16_1

Itinerary: http://www.tenab.net/online2sm.htm

[mousti]

Arai is doing quite well!

[Fly]

Nikara 1 min clear after 4ss. I would have loved to see him at a higher level.