The Finnish pilot Kalle Rovanperä (Toyota) The opening day of the Rally de Finlandia In the first position, with which the ninth cup of the World Cup of this automobile specialty is placed, in which he will seek the victory that has been resisted in his homeland.
Rovanperä, 24 years old and twice world champion, consolidated his lead 2: 08.3.
After the Finn are in the El Belgian classification Thierry Neuville (Hyundai), with a time of 56: 36.5, the French (56: 39.3) and the Japanese Takamoto Katsuta (Toyota), with 56: 39.7.
The one who paid expensive to open track in the morning stage, in which he concluded in tenth position, was the Estonian Ott Tänak (Hyundai), World Cup champion in 2019, who finished fifth in the afternoon and gave the World Cup leadership in favor of the British Elfyn Evans (Toyota), twice winner in Finland, who now drives him in four points in the general.
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The second stage of the rally, which will take place this Saturday, is the longest, with 8 sections and 142 kilometers timed, to which the rain forecast is added again, an ingredient added to the already vertiginous Finnish sections and its slides and rasas that make the cars constantly fly
