Rally Estonia 2018

Rally Estonia is a commonly known as a shakedown event before the WRC Finland. I went to the local event for the first time and now I know exactly why is that.

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Estonian southern roads are a copy of finish stages. Same sort of green trees and bushes, and a very similar gravel, just more dusty. Basically, after doing few WRC Finland events and coming here – I rarely could spot a difference.. biggest one being that marshals spoke Russian.

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Since it is the event prior the big, fast and dangerous “10 000 Lake” event, WRC teams like to participate in it and test their rally cars a bit: this year three top teams participated: Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team and Citroёn Total Abu Dhabi WRT.

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Drivers: Ott Tänak, Haydon Paddon and Craig Breen.

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I mostly followed the main guys, but few cars down the entry list did caught my attention as well.

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Estonians didn’t really expect less that a win from fellow countryman Ott, and so he delivered! Haydon took second, while Craig sealed the podium.

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