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The 2023 Rally Finland (also known as the Secto Rally Finland 2023) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held from 3 August to 6 August 2023. [2] It marked the seventy-second running of the Rally Finland, and was the ninth round of the 2023 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and World Rally Championship-3.
The Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team is a competitor of the World Rally Championship (WRC) based in Finland, serving as the entry for the car manufacturer Toyota. [1] [2] [3] Its team principal is former WRC driver Jari-Matti Latvala and its drivers for 2023 include reigning champion Kalle Rovanperä, alongside Elfyn Evans, Takamoto Katsuta and Sébastien Ogier.
Rally Finland is known for its smooth and wide gravel roads, numerous big jumps (or yumps) and blind crests. [105] It is the highest-speed rally in the World Rally Championship, having averaged 125.4 km/h in 2015. Of the nine fastest-ever WRC rallies by average speed, eight are editions of the Rally Finland. [105]
The team's fourth car was made available for privately funded competitors when Ogier did not compete, [70] the first of whom were Lorenzo Bertelli and Simone Scattolin at the 2023 Rally Sweden. [71] Team principal Jari-Matti Latvala also made a one-off private return at the 2023 Rally Finland, which was announced after the Safari Rally. [72]
Jukka Ketomäki at the 2005 Peurunkaralli. The Finnish Rally Championship is the national rally championship in Finland.The series currently has four classes; Super4 (including R5, S2000 and old WRC cars), Production4 (including Group N cars), R2 (including R2 and R1 cars) and Super2 (including other 2WD cars apart from R2 and R1).
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He also became the first Finnish World Rally Champion since Marcus Grönholm in 2002. [48] Rovanperä at the 2023 Rally Finland Rovanperä at the 2024 Rally Poland. Rovanperä did not win a rally until the fifth round of the championship, the 2023 Rally de Portugal, which helped him to lead the championship. [49]
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