Neste Oil Rally Finland 2009 suffers budget cut

This year’s Rally Finland has suffered a 40% budget cut from 2008, due to the recent downturn in the global economy, according to autosport.com.

Rally Finland event promoter, Jarmo Mahonen stated:

The economic recession is biting harder by the day in Finland. An obvious symptom of that is the fact that we have lost over 1,000 pre-booked VIP guests. Consequently, the event’s budget has now been slashed… Continue reading

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Andreas Mikkelsen has to raise a third of the budget himself for a seat next year otherwise he might be doing National Service in 2009

Andreas Mikkelsen could be denied a factory seat with the Subaru World Rally Team after a dispute with his father over how much funding he has to find, according to Autosport magazine.

Mikkelsen, who has remained tight-lipped on his test of the Impreza WRC 08, will not contest Rally GB and, according to his father Steiner, may not compete at all next year.

Mikkelsen Sr has told his son… Continue reading

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Looks like Jan Kopecy will be doing Rally Russia 2008 after all as has been testing for the event

Jan Kopecky has been testing recently for Rally Russia which indicates he will be taking part. An onboard video has appeared on a Czech website mediasport.cz showing Kopecky testing a 207 S2000 for Russia. It was thought he would miss the event as a result of the damage sustained during the suspicious and frightening Ypres accident where he hit a concrete pillar which was lying on the racing line.

 Team Kopecky… Continue reading

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