In total 18 runners will be able to score Production Car WRC points this weekend and Aigner - who will be in action in his Mitsubishi and just competing for Group N honours - will be watching with interest to see how things turn out.
Whatever happens though he will go to the next PWRC event in New Zealand still top in the P-WRC points thanks to those three wins in succession in Argentina, Greece and Turkey.
"To be honest I'm very happy to be ineligible for points this time because I've already seen which perils await you in Finland during last year's recce. The smaller jumps are very difficult to assess in particular," said the Austrian. "During the recce you are approaching them at 70 kph, but in the rally itself it's up to 170 kph. This is a perfect training for me, but at the same time I'm going to keep an eye on [Juha] Hänninen's and [Jari] Ketomaa's performance in their home event and how many points they'll collect in the final account.
"The overall PWRC classification is looking very good for me at the moment, but it's certain to change to my disadvantage after Finland. Let's wait and see what's really going to happen."
Other significant entries:
108 crews set to start.
108 crews are due to start the Rally Finland, which means the '1000 Lakes', as it was formerly known, is the most popular round to date this season, with Turkey the previous standard setter with 76.
In addition to the usual World Rally Car entries, there will be another five runners in WRC machinery, taking the total number to 22. Four of them will compete in Ford's - namely Andreas Mikkelsen, Matti Rantanen, Jukka Hiltunen and Jouni Arolainen, taking the total number Focus WRC's in the field to eleven, while Mads Ostberg is out in his usual Adapta-run
Subaru Impreza.
Of the rest, in addition to the 17 entrants in the J-WRC and 18 in the P-WRC, 2007 Tesco 99 Octane MSA British Rally champion Guy Wilks will be in action, as will Andreas Aigner and Sebastian Ogier.
![Mikko Hirvonen (FIN) / Jarmo Lehtinen (FIN), BP Ford Focus RS WRC 07. Rally Finland, August 2-5 2007 [PIC CREDIT: Ford/worldralypics.com]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/359017.jpg)
