17.08.2006:
Technical Tales from Jyvaskyla - Finland Rally
There hasn't been much time for technical innovation since Germany! The good news is that everyone and their equipment made the journey from Germany safely and on schedule.
Kronos Total Citroen and BP-Ford both have the same cars as in Germany. OMV Peugeot Norway took the chance to give Manfred Stohl a different car and engine, which was allowed by the regulations because it was not registered in Germany as a manufacturer.
The Subaru World Rally Team arrived with new engines for both Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson's cars. Solberg's engine failure in Germany was described by Prodrive engineering staff as a "classic engine failure; a Big Bang." Taking into account the earlier engine change after the Shakedown accident, Solberg's car is now on its third engine within a week. The rapidly-repaired bodywork used by Solberg in Germany is unchanged for this event.
The number two car at Subaru is driven by Atkinson, which means the Australian drives the same car Stephane Sarrazin had in Germany. In the Stobart VK Ford M-Sport team, the number two driver Kosti Katajamaki has the car which Jari-Matti Latvala drove in Germany. This car not only had the normal technical make-over, from asphalt to gravel specification, but it had to have a complete change of livery as well.
There is a private Citroen Xsara WRC for Janne Tuohino, run by PH Sport - it is Toni Gardemeister's active Acropolis car, while Gigi Galli has an ex-Alex Bengue 307WRC with passive transmission, run by the BSA team. The official Red Bull Skoda team is absent but Jan Kopecky has swapped his Fabia WRC for his earlier car.
In the JWRC, Fabien Fiandino has his Citroen C2-R2 entry nominated by PH Sport to replace the recuperating Brice Tirabassi. Kalle Pinomaki has given up his 'Rookie' status on this occasion to run in a Super 1600 Renault Clio while Kosciuszko has his repaired Swift back again.
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photos will be online during the Finland Rally on automobilsport.com by Luc Depiesse under PHOTOS - WRC Rallyes
Just days before the start of Neste Oil Rally Finland, Swedish driver Daniel Carlsson confirmed that he will start the Finnish round of the FIA World Rally Championship.
At a press conference held at Karlstad, it was announced that plans to run a Lancer World Rally Car on this event will go ahead, thanks to help promised by the Swedish Mitsubishi importers, and support fr weiter >>
Die Rallye Finnland im Überblick Die Rallye Finnland aus Sicht von BFGoodrich Das erwarten die Partnerteams von BFGoodrich So verlief die Rallye Finnland 2005 Statistisches WM-Zwischenstand
BFGoodrich will den Höhenflug i weiter >>
FIA World Rally Championship, round 10/16
Neste Oil Rally Finland, 18-20 August
Hot on the heels OMV ADAC Rallye Deutschland the Stobart VK M-Sport Ford Rally Team head straight to Finland for the very different challenge of Neste Oil Rally Finland, the tenth round of the FIA World Rally Championship and a return to the gravel surface that l weiter >>
Even though the start of Neste Oil Rally Finland 2006 is still six months away, the preparations for the event are already in full swing. "The route of the upcoming rally follows quite closely along the lines of the 2005 competition, but there will certainly be one or two changes. There are also some changes planned for the layout of the service park located at the Jyväskylä Pavi weiter >>
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Subaru's Petter Solberg book-ended the 2005 Neste Rally Finland with fastest stage times. The Norwegian, who won the opening stage, the Killeri supersopecial on Thursday evening, steered his Impreza to the fastest time on the event's final test, the second run through the 25.48km Kruununpera stage.
Ford youngster Mikko Hirvonen was second quickest, just 0.4 seconds behind weiter >>
Peugeot's Marcus Gronholm always said that the Neste Rally Finland was one of only two rounds on which the French team could realistically threaten Citroen, and the double champion delivered on that promise. This was the Finn's fifth win on his home event and was Peugeot's first of the season, repea weiter >>
Ford's Toni Gardemeister started the third and final leg of Neste Rally Finland in fine form with fastest time on the first run through the 7.76km Kuoho stage. The local hero, who ended yesterday's leg with his first stage win of the rally, is now back up to sixth overall and is on a charge following his SS16 puncture that dropped him from fourth.
Subaru's Petter Solberg weiter >>
Peugeot's Marcus Gronholm continued his dominance of Neste Rally Finland on the second run through Ouninpohja Ita stage. The Finn was 2.5 seconds clear of Citroen's Sebastien Loeb and made it a clean sweep of the daunting Ouninpohja series of stages described by Loeb as "very specialised".
G weiter >>
After the opening day's nine stages of the fifth round of the Junior World Rally Championship, Citroen ace Kris Meeke enjoys a comfortable lead after capitalising on the misfortunes that befell the Suzuki team. His five fastest times have set him up nicely to take the lead in the WRC's feeder championship.
It wasn't all plain sailing for Meeke, however, as he suffered a p weiter >>
With yet another fastest time on the second run through the 13.98km Ouninpohja Lansi stage, Peugeot's Marcus Gronholm must now be considered odds-on to take his fifth Neste Rally Finland victory in six years. The Finn's fourth straight stage win of the day gives the double champion a 21.2 second lead o weiter >>
Citroen's Sebastien Loeb has admitted that he's almost certainly given up any hope of beating Marcus Gronholm on this weekend's Neste Rally Finland. The reigning champion - who is bidding for his seventh win in a row this year - is currently 14.8 seconds behind Gronholm after losing time on this morning's fi weiter >>
Neste Rallye Finnland leader Marcus Gronholm fought back to regain his overnight advantage on SS11, with the fastest time on the first of two runs through the 14.13km Ouninpohja Lansi test. The Finn, who saw his lead cut to just 2.3 seconds after the first of today's eight stages, built that back to weiter >>
Reigning champion Sebastien Loeb took a big chunk out of Marcus Gronholm's narrow Neste Rally Finland lead on the first stage of the second leg, topping the times from the Peugeot ace by 3.5 seconds to cut his overall advantage down to just 2.3s. Subaru's Petter Solberg had a poor start to the day, 21 seconds off the pace.
Conditions on the stages around Jyvaskyla are muc weiter >>
The Mitsubishi Motors Motor Sports WRC crew of Harri Rovanperä and Risto Pietiläinen hold seventh position at the end of the opening leg of Rally Finland, the tenth round of the FIA World Rally Championship. Mitsubishi Lancer WRC05 team-mates "Gigi" Galli and Guido d’Amore - in their debut outing in Fi weiter >>
Peugeot's Marcus Gronholm capped a successful first day on the Neste Rally Finland by leading the French team to a one-two finish on the second run through the 2.06km superspecial at Killeri. The Finn beat team-mate Markko Martin by 0.9 seconds, the Estonian edging out Ford's Toni Gardemeister by a weiter >>
Reigning champion Sebastien Loeb took his second stage win of this weekend's Neste Rally Finland to keep overall leader Marcus Gronholm in his sights. The second run through the 13.96km Mokkipera test saw the Frenchman pip the two factory Peugeot 307s of Gronholm and Markko Martin by just 0.3 and 0.5 weiter >>
Just as it looked as though Peugeot's Marcus Gronholm had settled into a stage-winning rhythm on Neste Rally Finland, the Finn had a conservative run through the 13.96km Mokkipera test as his co-driver, Timo Rautianen, suffered back pains after a hefty landing on one of Finland's many bumps and weiter >>
Flying Finn Marcus Gronholm set his third consecutive fastest time on today's opening leg of the Neste Rally Finland to consolidate his overall lead on the fast forest event. The local hero set a time on the second longest stage of the rally - the 33.84km run through Vellipohja - that was a full 3.8 seconds faster than his closest rival.
The only man to have consistently weiter >>
Peugeot's Marcus Gronholm narrowly extended his overall advantage on Neste Rally Finland, pipping Citroen's reigning champion Sebastien Loeb to the top time on today's third stage, the 7.57km run through Ruuhimaki. The double world champion's overall lead now stands at 4.5 seconds as the cars head to the morning service break.
Third fastest on the stage was Petter Solberg weiter >>
Peugeot's Marcus Gronholm moved into the lead of the Neste Rally Finland after winning the 11.82-kilometre Laukaa stage. The Finn, who steered his Peugeot 307 to its only WRC win thus far on this event 12 months ago, pipped team mate Markko Martin by 4.2 seconds and moves ahead of erstwhile leader Sebastien Loeb.
Citroen ace Loeb was second on the stage and retains second weiter >>
Der amtierende Weltmeister und Titelfavorit Sebastian Loeb konnte sich heute bei der ersten WP der Neste Finland Rally klar durchsetzen in dem er Marcus Gronholms mit einer super WP-Zeit auf der 24,86km langen Lankamaa und übernahm so die Führung vom Leader Petter Solberg, der gestern abend klar vorlag.
Das Wetter spielt verrueckt wie schon vorauszusehen war und die Strec weiter >>
Subaru's Petter Solberg has stolen an early - but narrow - march on his rivals by topping the times on the opening test of this weekend's Neste Rally Finland - the first of two runs around the 2.06-kilometre Killeri superspecial. The Norwegian pipped one of the many local experts, Mitsubishi's weiter >>
Peugeot's Marcus Gronholm has boosted his hopes of adding a fifth Neste Rally Finland win to his four from the last five year by topping today's final shakedown run for the event. The Finn led the way on the short Laajavuori test on the outskirts of host town Jyvaskyla as he bids to give Peugeot its first win of the year.
Gronholm, the reigning event champion, is one of t weiter >>
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