Arctic Rally Finland: Behind the scenes of the WRC’s newcomer

In two weeks the FIA World Rally Championship journeys further north than ever before in its 49-year history as the frozen countryside of Lapland hosts Arctic Rally Finland Powered by CapitalBox (26 – 28 February). After the Finnish Championship event some of the areas where the stages run had 30-40cm of new snow, very fluffy frozen snow which really doesn’t pack much when it is pushed to the side. Most of the stages were already quite familiar to me so it was easy to start thinking what we could use for a WRC event. I couldn’t get all the roads I wanted because much of the Finnish Championship event runs in a military rehearsal area and they already had exercises planned for this period. Also the people in Rovaniemi were still working hard to put together their Finnish Championship event in mid-January and we didn’t want to disturb them too much and distract them from what they were doing.

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