[WRC] Neste Rally Finland 26 - 29 July 2018

[EstWRC]

Just had a more detailed look at the route and i agree that it looks great...i just had some stages mixed up in my head and thats why at first i thought it isnt good (for example i mixed up Pihlajakoski and Jukojärvi and thought what the hell).

can anyone give me google maps link about Vesala? the one i find cant be right because it is close to Helsinki and the other location is in Helsinki.

[AnttiL]

can anyone give me google maps link about Vesala? the one i find cant be right because it is close to Helsinki and the other location is in Helsinki.

There's a lot of options. My guess is something like this https://www.mapfab.com/map/rUc/Vesala or maybe with a junction turn somewhere.

Also:

https://www.rally-maps.com/Rally-Finland-1990/Vesala
https://www.rally-maps.com/Rally-Finland-1989/Vesala
https://www.rally-maps.com/Rally-Finland-1987/Vesala

EDIT: Another option: https://www.mapfab.com/map/rVM/Vesala-v2

EDIT2: This is from the beginning of the 1990 version. Super wide road. https://youtu.be/A_fxdBDsfes?t=31m30s

[AnttiL]

https://www.rally-maps.com/Rally-Finland-2018

[EstWRC]

ah finally!! and thanks for the Vesala links

[SubaruNorway]

What a great route. Here's some thoughts on it, as well as details on the changes of the stages

https://itgetsfasternow.wordpress.co...oute-revealed/

Hard to tell from the map but doesn't Päijälä go east not west onto the narrow road loop from last year and straight after 1km or something?

[AnttiL]

Hard to tell from the map but doesn't Päijälä go east not west onto the narrow road loop from last year and straight after 1km or something?

Ah right, thanks! West, East, one of them

https://www.rally-maps.com/Rally-Fin...j%C3%A4l%C3%A4

[Hartusvuori]

Also good to mention, official spectators' guide will be published for the first time in Urheilulehti Magazine. It's well available, but I think it must be purchased together with the day's Ilta-Sanomat newspaper - not sure, people more interested in sports in general would know.

[SubaruNorway]

Ah right, thanks! West, East, one of them

https://www.rally-maps.com/Rally-Fin...j%C3%A4l%C3%A4

No problem! I think there will be more punctures and suspension damage this year as some of those new roads are really soft

[Zeakiwi]

No problem! I think there will be more punctures and suspension damage this year as some of those new roads are really soft

Sandy soft -Finnish stages or soft wet dirt under trees type Finnish stages?

[AnttiL]

Sandy soft -Finnish stages or soft wet dirt under trees type Finnish stages?

I would say both but some of the roads are still a mystery to me. Also depends on the weather before and during the rally.

Definitely a more challenging route this year, even if it wasn’t so much new roads.