Monday, 3 August 2015

2015 WRC Round 8 recap - Rally Finland

Recap of the last round of WRC from last weekends Round eight of Rally Finland.

Last weekends was the eighth round of the World Rally Championship at the Rally Finland (31st July - 2nd August) was won by Jari-Matti Latvala in the works Volkswagen Polo R WRC, to win the rally overall. Meanwhile, team-mate and current WRC Champion Sébastien Ogier finished second in the other works Volkswagen Polo R WRC, Ogier was 13 seconds behind Latvala at the end. While, Mads Østberg finished in third place in the works Citroën DS3 WRC. Østberg was 90 seconds behind Latvala at the end of the rally.

Meanwhile in WRC-2 class (Group R5, R4, Super 2000 and Group N4 spec cars), that was won by Esapekka Lappi in the Škoda Motorsport Team, Škoda Fabia R5. Esapekka Lappi finished in eighth place overall, he was 7 minutes behind Latvala at the end of the rally.

While in WRC-3 class (Group R1, R2 and R3 cars) that was won by Quentin Gilbert in his own backed Citroën DS3 R3T. Quentin Gilbert finished in eighteenth place overall, he was over 21 minutes behind Latvala at the end of the rally.

Highlights of the rally bellow, enjoy.



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