Neste Oil Rally Finland 2008 is this week so time for a look back at some classic 1000 Lakes Rally footage

With the WRC fight resuming this week for a battle between Loeb, Hirvonen and Latvala let's take a look back at some classic 1000 Lakes footage. When men were men (as certain FIA WRCC members would say) and the event was commonly known as the "Finnish Grand Prix".

1973

1983

1984

1985 and possibly one of the greatest WRC events ever

1986

1991

McRae displaying "sisu" in 1992

1992

1993

Tommi Makinen testing before his first WRC win 1994

1996

In-car Sainz 1998

On-board Makinen 1998

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