Neste Oil Rally Finland 2016-07-31

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Event
Neste Oil Rally Finland

Date
Sun 31st July 2016 (UTC)

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24-11-27 16:00 (PST Los Angeles)
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24-11-27 18:00 (CST Chicago)
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24-11-27 19:00 (EST New York)
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24-11-28 00:00 (GMT London)
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24-11-28 01:00 (CET Paris)
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24-11-28 04:00 (GST Dubai)
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24-11-28 05:30 (IST Kolkata)
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24-11-28 09:00 (JST Tokyo)
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24-11-28 11:00 (AEDT Sydney)

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League
WRC

Season
2016

Round
8

Status

Location
Neste Oil Rally 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) is a rally competition held in Jyväskylä 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 five drivers from countries other than Finland or Sweden have won the event.

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 prestigious rallies in the championship.