Friday is Valtteri bottas a waterfront lot in a long-awaited h-hour.Valtteri Bottas and Finnish rally drivers were told Friday morning the atmosphere of his Arctic Lapland Rally below. AKK/STANLEY NIINIMÄKI
Rovaniemi environment running on a traditional Arctic Lapland Rally is Valtteri bottas a waterfront lot career first rally competition. Mercedes F1 stars get to shake the dust off driving overalls its a good thing, because he is in the race under the M-sport’s Ford Fiesta RS WRC.
Bottas has had time to prepare for the ten special stages and a total of about 250 ek-mile regional competition for five days.
it’s been a super interesting week. We came here on Saturday, and Sunday was the first test of the WRC-car. Start of the rally was, Bottas recap of worn-out days on Friday morning in Rovaniemi at the press conference.
– the Whole time has been a ridiculous amount of learning. This has been really nice to learn all the time more note attack and driving. Pätkäthän are really sweet. I look forward to, that we can properly withdraw. Then we’ll see what the next two days during the event. The first goal is that I get to drive to the finish line, but also to enjoy driving and to learn.
Great teacher
Bottas has got his side almost the best possible teacher, as his map reader the backdrop of the works of 144 MM-rally start-up veteran Timo Rautiainen , which read in time sheet music Marcus Grönholmille . Rautiainen and Grönholm won the world championship in 2000 and 2002.
I Have to say, that Timosta has been pretty crazy help in this whole process. He has a really hard experience. We have me a fit note to make. All the time I’ve learned Timolta.
Although Rautiainen, the principal conclusion related to the notes and their reading, Bottas, Rautiaisella is a professional man of understanding also driving.
I’m always someone the test piece, after asking, that is something to say. Yes there’s always something to comment on, even though it claims you don’t know about driving anything, Bottas grinned.
it Is, however, a few kilometers was WRC-the car ride, so I think it’s something to know.
Bottas pointed out that drivers also need to rally in the do more than mere driving. It’s what the F1 world is invariably the mechanic of it, it may rally the path to the snaps of the car on his own thing.
After all, that car great technology. A lot has been learning how the car behaves, but we’ve been through, for example, that if a piece, so how the tyres are changed. That’s been their thing.
these Are cool devices, which is just insanely fun to drive. I have enjoyed so much. Now let’s see, how does it feel when we get to run to the fullest.
Big respect
the Arctic-rally’s circumstances are in accordance with their challenge. Or at least they deviate quite a way from what Bottas has experienced, for example, Malaysia or Singapore F1 race.
the thermometer shows Rovaniemi 25 degrees below zero, so more than 50 degrees less than South-east Asia, and day length is only a few hours, i.e. the part of the clip from being driven in the dark or at least very dim light.
Bottas assure that Fiestasta to find the unexpected situations of all kinds of equipment, among other things, it important, i.e. snow shovel.
– Yes, we’re prepared for everything. The test and everything came a little side experiment. It’s better to be prepared.
Friday morning press bottas next to the sat, inter alia, the experienced veteran and multi-time Finnish champion Juha Salo and Jari Ketomaa . In addition to them there were also the younger generation of talents Emil Lindholm , Henry Pietarinen and Alexy Röyhkiö .
F1-star has already given so far the experience viisikolle ”big rispektin” these conclusion.
– Now when you have seen the clips and how many a tight place there is, which can make a mistake, so tough it is, who is going to win.
I’ve previously gone to see a species like this, from the driver’s perspective. Raise I hat everyone. This is a really difficult job. Not easy when you go hard and keep at the same time stay on the road and avoid errors.
