Finnish championship rallies in Turku and Tampere

Rallying can be cruel sometimes. Turku and Tampere showed how you can turn something bad to worse. I a way Turku wasn't bad. We were driving with a steady pace and coming to the last stage we were third in class. A minor concern was that one of the oil pressure values was sometimes going up and down, but the one was OK. The diagnose was a faulty sensor. Then three kilometres to the stage the engine blew up. A three centimetre hole on the side of the engine. And the car caught on fire. Luckily only a small fire and the fire extinguisher killed it easily. As you can imagine the mood among the crew was pretty low.

A month later the last championship round in Tampere. All the stages 150km of them were old NORF stages so we were really looking forward to the event. On Friday in the dark there was only one stage. Pengonpohja which is my favourite along Ouninpohja and one Itärally stage. With one spin we were still third on the stage. However when driving towards the night service Jari wasn't feeling well. I thought it might be the blood sugar levels even though we had been eating throughout the day. After parc ferme Jari started to vomit and a violent stomach flue lasted the whole night. No chance to start to day 2. That was the end of our season...