Observations from #WRC rally #Finland:
- The moment cars touch the ground after jumps it feels like they get glued to the surface of the road. That Elfyn's jump looked scary and then the car landed and kind of just continued following the line... So weird to see!
- Even as a huge snow lover, I don't want to know how it feels to be a marshall on the stage. There are 11 televised starts, so it's at least 22 freezing televised minutes outside the car, but then when however many WRC2 / WRC3 cars go, I wonder if marshalls stay or get to warmth?..
- Wonderful to see Takamota posting competitive times, even on cleared road... Also, amazing recovery drive after cautious mid-stage by him.
- I wonder how balanced are competitive KMs between Friday and Saturday, running the longest stage twice today could be horrible for Seb.
- Tanak shows that road cleaning is more important than ice getting stripped by cars. Seems like one can yeet a -10.6 stage even as car number seven.
- I've been thinking about whether or not people will remember Julien Ingrassia tens of years after. I think so, especially since #WRC is very clear about the fact that both driver and co-drivers win or lose.
- Amazing work of new Neuville's co-driver though demonstrates that Rally is made or broken by drivers (together with competence of co-drivers, of course).
- I find it clear that Tänak is likely to win, but what a stellar job by Rovanperä, who's likely going to get second, assuming no punts or bad fortune!
- "After 10km I thought ``shit, it's finished'', but there were still 20km to go" -- Tänak on tire management on this huge stage. Before this event I didn't realise how much of a force front studs need to cope with.
- Breen still second, it's impressive! Tomorrow will be exciting. I hope for snow so that Tänak has to work hard starting first on the road. Awesome that there's no drama in the top. What a rally! First time I watch big snow rally live.
- Instead of competing under the flag of their country, Russians are competing under the flag of Russian Automotive Federation.
- It's impressive to see that despite so much Russian money, #FIA followed through with sanctions against #Russia. Or is it just #WRC?
- Portrayed on the screenshot is Martins Sesks from my home country (#Latvia), confusing the audience, as there was a choo-choo train of rally cars after some incident in #WRC2.