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Patrik Flodin made a great start in Rally Finland
today- second with only 0,5 seconds to the leader.
Patrik Flodin and his cod river Göran Bergsten
came to start in rally Finland one of the worlds
fastest rallies in the world like before together
with the russian URT-team in a P-WRC Subaru.
The rally started today with three special stages
and patrik won the first stage and was in the
lead up until the super special were they were
beaten with a second and lost the lead but they
only have 0.5 second up to the new leader Jarkko
Nikara a local driver.
Tomorrow eight stages will be run and during Saturday
not less than eleven stages.
-" There will be completely new stages for
us tomorrow" says Patrik. "There were
many many years since these stages was run in
a WRC event but we got great pace notes and I
promise you that we will keep up the speed tomorrow"
Patrik laughs.
The local drivers has a bit of an advantage since
the stages are being run in their local championship:
-"I am not to worried it feels like we have
the advantage to go out second tomorrow so we
will catch up." says Patrik and is referring
to the leader Jarkko Nikara.
| SS3
Laajavuori 1 (4.19 km) |
| 1. |
Jarkko
Nikara (Fin |
21:31.2 |
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| 2 |
Patrik
Flodin |
21:31.7 |
+0,5 |
| 3. |
Hayden
Paddon (NZ) |
21:44.3 |
+13,1 |
| 4. |
Riku
Tahko (Fin) |
21:55.9 |
+24,7 |
| 5. |
Jukka
Ketomäki (Fin) |
22:02.2 |
+31,0 |
| 6. |
Michal
Kosciuszko (Pol) |
22:09.6 |
+38,4 |
| 7. |
Martin
Semerad (CZ) |
22:14.2 |
+43,0 |
| 8. |
Oleksandr
Saliuk (Ukr) |
22:37.3 |
+1:06,1 |
| 9. |
Benito
Guerra (Mex) |
22:49.1 |
+1:17,9 |
| 10. |
Dimitry
Tagirov (Rus) |
22:53.3 |
+1:22,1 |
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