Here are some early pics from Rally Finland on the first day. Jari-Matti Latvala leads Petter Solberg by 9.4 sec after SS9 with Sebastien Ogier and Sebastien Loeb in 3rd and 4th respectively.

Mikko Hirvonen who was leading the rally early on, rolled the car on SS4 and exited the rally. This one is far from over so we'll see if the Citroen drivers can quicken the pace to catch Latvala.

Here's the video of Hirvonen's crash as well. Looks a lot worse than it actually was. Both driver and co-driver escaped w/o injury.

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Here are some more images from this one. Latvala won this one despite having to sweep the road on day 3. i guess the starting order strategy doesn't work if you just go flat out. hehe.

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the crash vid is good. 6 revs and they climbed out. also like seeing the fans rolling the car upright. thats fan participation.