[WRC] Rally Finland 2022

[pantealex]

agreed, you are on point with everything. shakedown is boring as hell too IMO, basically straight all the time

was makin the route for us yesterday and its bad, dont like this years itinerary at all

I have driven SD 4 times now, 1st road is not straight and easy, it's challenging...

COC said to me yesterday that Shakedown is excellent, it has everything in it what Rally Finland has. It allows drivers to come back Service Park after every run.

But yes for spectators it's very difficult ...

and organization knows it but purpose of Shakedown is to help competitors.

One thing: car #52 young Justus Räikkönen with P208 Rally4 will drive Shakedown in same time slot than Rally1 because he is invited to FIA Press conference.

[pantealex]

Follow this guy on youtube for presenting spectator viewing points on the stages. In Rally English!

https://youtu.be/tWLUdvWqGIY

https://youtu.be/H1xB9ga5Oj4

COC told me that his videos are "very wrong"
Many of his places are "no spectators" zones because quite many land owners are not rally people and don't want spectators to their land/field. So prepare to have "Plan B" for spectating spot.
My memory is bad so I don't remember which stages COC mentioned but they had to hire more Marshalls for some places because he was advertising those forbidden places.

[matek22]

Where is possible to park the car on Paijala if I want to watch ss somewhere before finish? There is no official parking and all roads to finish are closed ...

[AnttiL]

COC told me that his videos are "very wrong"
Many of his places are "no spectators" zones because quite many land owners are not rally people and don't want spectators to their land/field. So prepare to have "Plan B" for spectating spot.
My memory is bad so I don't remember which stages COC mentioned but they had to hire more Marshalls for some places because he was advertising those forbidden places.

That is sad to hear. Obviously the video is targeted at people who are so experienced at spectating rallies that they know to respect land owners, because they know it's important for not canceling a run of a stage and having the rally there next year as well. But some "tourist" could find these videos and consider them an official spectator guide...

[Rallyper]

I don´t think Joonas videos will harm anything for the rally and landowners. As AnttiL says.

I would rather say he points out where not to go, because he is very accurate in his videos. I think COC should not worry. Big crowds will be on ordinary spectating spots.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Huttunen's Puma ready for Finland:

[SubaruNorway]

Most of us often end up in the same places anyway now with WRC+, like in Vekkula i had already picked out 4 of the interesting places he also stopped from the recce video.

[AnttiL]

Most of us often end up in the same places anyway now with WRC+, like in Vekkula i had already picked out 4 of the interesting places he also stopped from the recce video.

Vekkula is not on WRC+ yet

[SubaruNorway]

Vekkula is not on WRC+ yet

I know, i reffered to the recce video by the organizer.
Experienced this in Sweden once how WRC+ helps, on the new stage Nyckelvattnet that you couldn't recce yourself because it was closed. 1st run we were 2 people, 2nd run there was 20 because people had seen the place on All live

[pantealex]

First 500m of Vekkula stage is "no go" zone, you can't access it even by walking without "resident permission / asukas lupa" paper, access roads are blocked from "bigger road"

Big field by "Morvantie" address is first possible place to spectate. Official "Himos-Jämsä" spectating area is there, with all kind of catering/food opportunities + big viewing screen.