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Category: Rally

  • 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. 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. Since it is the event prior the big, fast and dangerous “10 000 Lake” event, WRC teams like to participate…

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  • WRC Neste Rally Finland 2017

    Last time I’ve visited a World Rally Championship event around 5-6 years ago. Back then it was still Sebastian Loeb collecting rally wins and championship titles, but oh boy how it changed. 2017 is a different game overall. WRC cars became faster and adapted, what I call, DTM-styled aerodynamics. It’s a rookie fest out there in terms of drivers, only veterans competing are Ford’s Sebastian Ogier, Toyota’s Jari-Matti Latvala and Hyundai’s Dani Sordo. Toyota brings “the Flying Finn” phenomenon back to trend with running a Finnish trio: Jari Matti, Esapekka Lappi and Juho Hänninen. Ogier’s teammate is young Estonian Ott…

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    “Park wasn’t my co-driver, I was his pilot”

    Today marks 10 years from the tragic accident that took the life away from Michael “beef” Park. For me it was the period when I was following WRC closely and was cheering Markko Märtin up as a future champion. Unfortunately at the end of 2005 season their car hit a tree at close to 200km/h on SS15 of Wales Rally great Britain and the accident was fatal. After the crash, an emotional Markko said: “Park wasn’t my co-driver, I was his pilot”. Year later, on 20th of June, WRC stars from all over the world came to Tallinn for memorial opening. I believe,…

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