2018 Rally Finland 68th Neste Rally Finland | |||
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Round 8 of 13 in the 2018 World Rally Championship
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Host country | Finland | ||
Rally base | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi | ||
Dates run | 26 – 29 July 2018 | ||
Start location | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi | ||
Finish location | Ruuhimäki, Toivakka | ||
Stages | 23 (317.26 km; 197.14 miles) | ||
Stage surface | Gravel | ||
Transport distance | 1,110.23 km (689.86 miles) | ||
Overall distance | 1,427.49 km (887.00 miles) | ||
Statistics | |||
Crews registered | 72 | ||
Crews | 67 at start, 51 at finish | ||
Overall results | |||
Overall winner | Ott Tänak Martin Järveoja Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 2:35:18.1 | ||
Power Stage winner | Ott Tänak Martin Järveoja Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT | ||
Support category results | |||
WRC-2 winner | Eerik Pietarinen Juhana Raitanen TGS Worldwide 2:45:18.4 | ||
WRC-3 winner | Ken Torn Kuldar Sikk OT Racing 3:03:07.2 |
The 2018 Rally Finland (formally known as the Neste Rally Finland 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that held over four days between 26 and 29 July 2018.[1] It marked the sixty-eighth running of Rally Finland, and was the eighth round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships, and the fourth round of the Junior WRC championship.[2][3] The event was based in Jyväskylä in Central Finland and consisted of twenty-three special stages totalling 317.26 km (197.14 mi) in competitive kilometres.[4]
Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm were the defending rally winners.[5] Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the rally winners. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.[6] The TGS Worldwide crew of Eerik Pietarinen and Juhana Raitanen won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a Škoda Fabia R5, while Estonian crew Ken Torn and Kuldar Sikk won the World Rally Championship-3.[7][8]