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Event
Rally Finland

Date
Thu 26th July 2018 (UTC)

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Time
00:00:00 UTC

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24-11-08 16:00 (PST Los Angeles)
24-11-08 18:00 (CST Chicago)
24-11-08 19:00 (EST New York)
24-11-09 00:00 (GMT London)
24-11-09 01:00 (CET Paris)
24-11-09 04:00 (GST Dubai)
24-11-09 05:30 (IST Kolkata)
24-11-09 09:00 (JST Tokyo)
24-11-09 11:00 (AEDT Sydney)

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League
WRC

Season
2018

Round
8

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Location
Jyväskylä

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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, 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 six 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.

Smooth and blisteringly fast gravel roads, buried among forests and lakes, are characterised by massive stomach-churning jumps. Rally starts on Thursday night with exciting mixed-surface Harju street stage in front of big crowds in central Jyväskylä. Drivers head west on Friday to sample many new roads in tests including Moksi, Urria, Ässämäki and Äänekoski - all of which are driven twice. Saturday is the ‘meat’ of the event, with almost 143km of relentless action spanning nearly 16 hours on roads south-west of the rally base, near Jämsa. The new Kakaristo test features roads from the legendary Ouninpohja. Sunday’s finale heads east for two runs at two classic tests – Laukaa and the big jumps of Ruuhimäki.

Ott Tanak has stormed to victory at Rally Finland to brighten his World Rally Championship title credentials with both Thierry Neuville and Sebastien Ogier struggling down the order.
Tanak tightened his grip at the top of the times on SS7 over Citroen’s Mads Ostberg before rapidly building a healthy advantage over the Saturday’s loops.
With a conservative drive over Sunday’s final four stages, Tanak claimed victory by 32.7s ahead of Ostberg, while the Estonian driver also claimed victory on the Power Stage for Toyota Gazoo Racing to take maximum points from the event.
Jari-Matti Latvala gave the home fans some joy by taking third place for Toyota, just missing out to Ostberg by 2.8s at the finish, with Hyundai’s Hayden Paddon promoted to fourth place after last year’s Rally Finland winner Esapekka Lappi crashed out on SS20.
World Rally Championship leader Neuville has seen his points advantage suffer some damage finishing a lowly ninth place, while picking up a bonus two points in the Power Stage, but still leads the standings by 21 points.


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Result List


Result Description
Pos /Driver /Co-driver /Team /Time /

1/O. TÄNAK/M. JÄRVEOJA/TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRT/2:35:18.1
2/M. OSTBERG/T. ERIKSEN/CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WORLD RALLY TEAM/+32.7
3/J. LATVALA/M. ANTTILA/TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRT/+35.5
4/H. PADDON/S. MARSHALL/HYUNDAI SHELL MOBIS WORLD RALLY TEAM/+1:35.6
5/S. OGIER/J. INGRASSIA/M-SPORT FORD WORLD RALLY TEAM/+2:15.0
6/T. SUNINEN/M. MARKKULA/M-SPORT FORD WORLD RALLY TEAM/+2:19.2
7/E. EVANS/D. BARRITT/M-SPORT FORD WORLD RALLY TEAM/+2:29.5
8/C. BREEN/S. MARTIN/CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WORLD RALLY TEAM/+3:08.4
9/T. NEUVILLE/N. GILSOUL/HYUNDAI SHELL MOBIS WORLD RALLY TEAM/+3:51.8
10/A. MIKKELSEN/A. JAEGER/HYUNDAI SHELL MOBIS WORLD RALLY TEAM/+4:45.6

FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers
1/Thierry Neuville/153
2/Sébastien Ogier/132
3/Ott Tänak/107
4/Esapekka Lappi/70
5/Dani Sordo/60

FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
1/HYUNDAI SHELL MOBIS WRT Hyundai/228
2/M-SPORT FORD WORLD RALLY TEAM Ford/202
3/TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRT Toyota/201
4/CITROEN TOTAL ABU DHABI WRT Citroen/153


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