Finally I again write something. I have had a great change to spend a small holiday before rally finland. I was staing at cottage beside the lake with my family and do some things what I also enjoy to do. To go walking and jogging in to forest, fishing and then cook some fresh fish. Now we are starting to be back in business again.

On Monday we were testing Fiesta at near to Jyväskylä. Mainly just get reasonable set-up for these very high speed stages. Jumps are also one of the main thing in here. I´m very happy with everything on car at the moment. It was great to get back to drive again. It is more than one month when I last time was driving this great car. Today was the first day of recce. It is so nice to see again how great the stages are. I almost forgot how fast we can go here, just fly with car from corner to next. Lines are important, and I´m confident that I have found the right places where to push, but let see.

Competition here will be extremely tough, I think best entries for S2000 so far for whole year. That is good, I like when I know that we need to flat out just from the start. Ofcourse S2000 WRC points are also important and wild card drivers here defenetely are not doing this rally to be easier to collect the best possible points out from here.

Also the amount of people will be nice to see out there again. It is just so amazing how many people from Finland is watching the rally at the forests. TV coverage is also huge here. It will give some extra push for local drivers to drivers as fast as we can here.

This will Be fun!!!

I write again after the rally how it felt to fly with the car!

-Jari-