interesting eventful rally of finland
-only two non-finnish drivers have ever won rally of finland (sainz twice and auriol once)
- markko martin becomes third non finnish driver to win rally finland
- beef park celebrates his 50th WRC rally, Richard Burns celebrates his 100th
- gronholm & makinen have 8 rally finland wins between them: makinen winning 5 times and gronholm 3
- gronholm, rovenperra, hirvonen, vallimaki and gardemiester (all competitive finnish drivers) retire from rally finland
- vallimaki and duval retire from hitting the exact same rock, sainz suffers damage to his car on the rock as well
- the highest finish for a finnish driver in this year's rally finland was 6th by tommi makinen
- the last time there were no finnish drivers on the podium in rally finland: 1959
- three non-works finnish drivers finish in the top 10, two of them in the points
- ari vatanen, the 1981 world champ who hasn't competed in a wrc event in 5 years, cruises to an 11th place finish
interesting battles:
gronholm vs martin for 1st place in days one and two, trading the position twice until gronholm retired from ripping a wheel off
solberg vs burns vs sainz for 2nd place at the start of day two, all three seperated by .5 seconds
solberg vs burns for 2nd place: burns up on solberg by 1.8 seconds going into the final stage, solberg with a 1.8 second advantage until the second to the last split bringing them dead even, solberg beating burns by 1.2 seconds on the stage and taking second place overall
- martin wins his second event of his season/career
- michellin wins it's 200th rally
the most interesting rally EVER
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