Secto Rally Finland 2024-08-01

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Event
Secto Rally Finland

Date
Thu 1st August 2024 (UTC)
Thu 1st August 2024 (Local)

Timestamp
2024-08-01T00:00:00

Time

00:00:00 UTC

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League
WRC

Season
2024

Round
9

Status

Location
Finland

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Description

Rally Finland (formally known as the Neste Rally Finland and formerly known as the Neste Oil Rally Finland, 1000 Lakes Rally and Rally of the Thousand Lakes; Finnish: Suomen ralli, Swedish: Finska rallyt) is a rally competition in the Finnish Lakeland in Central Finland. The rally is driven on wide and smooth gravel roads, featuring blind crests and big jumps. It is the fastest event in the World Rally Championship and has been dubbed the "Grand Prix of Rallying" and the "Grand Prix on Gravel". Rally Finland is among the largest annually organised public events in the Nordic countries, attracting hundreds of thousands of spectators each year. The rally has been known to be very difficult for non-Nordic drivers; only seven drivers from countries other than Finland or Sweden have won the event- in the 1980s and before, the field was made up almost entirely of Finnish and Swedish drivers.
Rally Finland was first held under the name Jyväskylän Suurajot (Jyväskylä Grand Prix) in 1951. Originally an endurance event that stretched to Lapland in Northern Finland, the rally was at the forefront of the adoption of the modern rally format, splitting the route into a number of special stages in the mid-1950s. With increasing international attention, it became part of the European Rally Championship programme in 1959. After the start of the World Rally Championship in 1973, the event became the Finnish round in the series. Rally Finland is now among the most popular and

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Result List

01	Sébastien Ogier	2:25:41.9
02	Thierry Neuville	+40.1
03	Adrien Fourmaux	+1:14.1

Result Description
Driver Standings after Finland
Pos /Driver /Points

1 /Thierry Neuville /168
2 /Sébastien Ogier /141
3 /Ott Tanak /137
4 /Elfyn Evans /132
5 /Adrien Fourmaux /119
6 /Kalle Rovanperä /86
7 /Takamoto Katsuta /76
8 /Esapekka Lappi /33
9 /Andreas Mikkelsen /29
10 /Dani Sordo /27

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