Vaakuna Ralli

As you know, Finland is a well known country because of the Rallies, many famous Pilots from different categories are Finnish. The famous Rally of Finland is during the Summer, so maybe you are not able to come and see it, but if you are interested you can check all information about it in the official page:

http://www.nesteoilrallyfinland.fi/en/

but if you like Rally's, you have the opportunity to see one of them in live during your exchange period here in Mikkeli, it's name is Vaakuna Ralli and this year dates were (19-20.09.08). You can see the updates about it here: http://www.mikua.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=51 , it is in Finnish but maybe you can find someone to help you translating it ;) they also put an english document on the web page with info.

The start is done from the "Center Square", the big one, where they gives the start

The "park assistance" is located at the big parking of the Main Campus, so if you want, you can take a look around watching each team getting ready their cars for the race:

I can tell you that if you want to see it, you will have to get the information about the places through it goes, and get a map of them to go, because i didn´t do it and i had to search really hard for it, trying to follow the cars by bike to the places where the "sectors" starts, it was really funny, but at the end, i found a place to see one of those "sectors" quite near from Moas2, and i will try to show it to you

After finishing the rally i saw this map, so maybe you can look for it before your departure to the selected "sector"

When you get a place, i recommend you to do if you can some kind of "little fire" to be warm, at least your feets and legs will thank you ;)

And then get ready to watch and record if you want

[youtube=http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg7UxGRWzbM]





You can also see the rest of videos if you want, by clicking in the link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bakalutis