Rally Finland
The Rally Finland ( officially Neste Rally Finland [ formerly 1000 Lakes Rally and 1000 Lakes Rally ], the name was changed in 1994 on request of the principal sponsor Neste Oil ) is a rally event held annually in August on the gravel roads in the area will be held around the Finnish city of Jyväskylä. In Finland, even the rally is known under the term Jyväskylä Suurajot.
The rally has existed since the 50s. Originally, it was held only as a national event, but for three decades it represents the Finnish round of the FIA World Rally Championship represents the Rally for the high driven average speed, their many jump hilltops and the beautiful location of the sections in the middle of Finnish forests is known and lakes.
One of her low points witnessed the rally in 1981, when the Austrian Franz Wittmann in his Audi quattro in an accident after crossing the finish line of the Special Stage 4 - night collided Ehikki by car, the timekeeper, captured a small group of officials, while the President of the Finnish automobile Sports Federation AKK Raul Falin injured fatally. Meanwhile compatriot Boris Rung ( then President of the European Rallycross Association [ ERA ] and a member of the FIA Off- Road Commission ) and the Greek FIA observer Costas Glossotis escaped with a fright.
The special stage of the rally is best known Ouninpohja, mainly because of their spectacular and broad jumps. In 2003, Markko Märtin with his Ford Focus WRC on this stage the ( successful ) record of 57 meters jump distance at a speed of 171 km / h. The long jump record absolute the Rally Finland since 1975 holds, however, the Finn and former Rallycross driver Jussi Kynsilehto, who with his co-driver, the rally journalist Martin Holmes from England, in the former SS23 - far Raikuu with a Ford Escort RS1600 72 meters flew - after which the car rolled over four times and both occupants had to be rescued from the destroyed vehicle. Holmes had read in Streckenaufschrieb and announced with "full over crest" a tip that should come only 300 meters away. In 2004, the Norwegian rally driver Petter Solberg exceeded the maximum permissible by the FIA average speed of 130 km / h, when the Ouninpohja test was divided into two Ouninpohja -West and East Ouninpohja 2005. For 2008, Ouninpohja was not driven for safety reasons. In 2012, the special stage returns to the Rally Finland program and is discharged as final Power Stage
In the years 1998, 2003 and 2007 the Neste Rally Finland was chosen as the " Rally of the Year".
Overall winner
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