Friday, 4th July 2008

109 crews set to start the Rally Finland; 22 in WRC cars; 17 in JWRC; 18 in PWRC.

The organisers of the Neste Oil Rally Finland released the official entry list for their event on Friday, the ninth round in the 2008 FIA World Rally Championship.

109 crews have been accepted, which means the 'Rally of the Thousand Lakes', as it was formerly known, is the most popular round to date this season, with Turkey the previous standard setter with 76.

As reported earlier this week there will be 22 runners in World Rally Cars, 17 entrants in the Junior WRC and 18 in the Production Car WRC.

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Of the rest, there are a number of other notable entries including 2007 Tesco 99 Octane MSA British Rally champion Guy Wilks, Andreas Aigner, Bernardo Sousa and Sebastian Ogier.

Aigner and Sousa are both competing in the PWRC this season, but Finland is not one of their nominated events, so they won't be able to score Production points. Similarly Ogier is contesting the JWRC, but Finland is not one of his nominated events either, so again he won't be able to score Junior points.

The full entry list is as follows:

1. Sebastien Loeb Citroen Total WRT C4 WRC M
2. Daniel Sordo Citroen Total WRT C4 WRC M
3. Mikko Hirvonen BP Ford Abu Dhabi Focus RS WRC 07 M
4. Jari-Matti Latvala BP Ford Abu Dhabi Focus RS WRC 07 M
5. Petter Solberg Subaru WRT Impreza WRC 2008 M
6. Chris Atkinson Subaru WRT Impreza WRC 2008 M
7. Gigi Galli Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 07 MT
8. Henning Solberg Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 07 MT
9. Federico Villagra Munchi's Ford Focus WRC 07 MT
10. Luis-Perez Companc Munchi's Ford Focus WRC 07 MT
11. Toni Gardemeister Suzuki WRT SX4 WRC M
12. Per-Gunnar Andersson Suzuki WRT SX4 WRC M

14. Conrad Rautenbach PH Sport-Citroen C4 WRC A8
15. Urmo Aava PH Sport-Citroen C4 WRC A8
16. Matthew Wilson Stobart VK Ford Focus WRC 07 A8
17. Mads Ostberg Adapta Subaru Impreza WRC A8
18. Khalid Al Qassimi BP Ford Abu Dhabi Focus RS WRC 07 A8
19. Andreas Mikkelsen Ramsport Ford Focus RS WRC 06 A8
20. Matti Rantanen Ford Focus RS WRC 06 A8
21. Jukka Hiltunen Ford Focus WRC 03 A8

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