Since during spring there aren't any rallies in Finland we went to UK to watch Pirelli International rally on 27th and 28th of April. Not driving, just seeing how the process of competing in British rallies works. And by we I don't mean just Andreas and me. With us were Andreas' trusted mechanic Niko and one of our familiar competitors from Finland: Jussi Vainionpää and his co-driver Mika Juntunen. Mika also belongs to the same training team as us. So all in all a jolly good group of people.We participated in the recce and watched the stages next day. Narrow roads from the Finnish perspective. Still fast though so nice to watch. Other than that things didn't seem that different compared to our own championship.
So what else. Training. In Vierumäki we had our physical tests. So rowing in the rowing machine + a dozen different physical tests. In May we had also a driving weekend to get some feeling of the cars on gravel and also to try different setups. The training weekends also bring up the social side of rallying since there is always time for a chat.
During May we also participated in one actual rally. Ovisepät -rally wasn't part of the Finnish rally championship, but since you were allowed to use pace notes it served as a good practice session. The stages were old Finnish WRC round's stages. Fast and lots of crests. On one stage there was even few kilometers of tarmac.
The spring break away from the championship went by quite fast and seems July-August is going to be particularly busy. Two championship rounds and Finnish championship round Neste Oil Rally Finland.
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