Yesterday Tänak said to estonian national television that it was purely his decision to attack on the final day. He said that they had been fighting all weekend with problems and for a good result so why give it up on the final day. He said the first two passes were his only chance because the stages were new, on the second run everybody already know the stages. He doesnt really comment the accident but it is obvious that it was just too optimistic pacenote or the speed was just too high for the corner.


Already on wednesday our rally started badly because our car just lost power on the way to Jyvaskyla just out of Helsinki. So we had to limp through the rally with powerless car. On that day I thought that this isnt a good sign and boy i was right!

On Thursday we were in the beginning of shakedown just before the big jump so we saw the jump before and how they went into the big jump. First pass the VW's of Ogier and Mikkelsen went full bananas into the big jump, Meeke too and Paddon. Latvala and Tänak braked a little. The other runs everyone took it differently.

Friday we were on 2XMökkiperä, Jukojärvi and Horkka.

Saturday we took it more easily and went just to two stages, Ouninpohja1 and Päijälä2. On Päijälä2 we were in the middle of the stage were there was straight and a little jump and after jump fast left and right hander. Because Ouninpohja1 was cancelled we were very early on Päijäl2 on saw like 5 Vietomehet go off in that fast left hander place. When the top guys came you just saw the difference, although Latvala went also very wide there and Paddon took it also very wide but nothing too serious.

On Sunday we were on Lempä stage which we planned to see both times but when Tänak retired it was just enough for us. Our mood was already so and so because the previous problems and then in the end this. We changed our ship time to earlier and went away.


Overall it was still a great event. Im not an expert so the top guys up to Breen looked very similar to me. Then came Bertelli and others and you could see they were much slower in the corners, braking very early and some of them barely jumped on the places were the top guys jumped a lot! The Hyundais were much more sideways than others IMO. Visibly Meeke looked very fast just everywhere. Breen, Ogier and Tänak were the most clean ones IMO.

thanks again rally finland and im pretty sure i will be there also next year!