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Janne Tuohino took the victory in Arctic Lapland Rally

25.01.2003 / Janne Tuohino took the victory in Arctic Lapland Rally

The first round of Finnish Rally Championship has been driven. The Arctic Lapland Rally got a fresh winner, Janne Tuohino won the rally for the first time.

Juuso Pykälistö started the day as the leader, but Tuohino had today the good spirit. He took five out of nine stage winning times, as Pykälistö succeeded only twice.

On stage 3 Kristian Sohlberg, who was running third, went a bit out and broke his transmission trying to get out. He had to end his rally there.

Pykälistös day was over after stage 12. He crashed with reindeers that had unforunately got on the road and Pykälistö had to retire. Also Jussi Välimäki, who already had had troubles with his Hyundai Accent WRC on stage 9, but he stopped on the stage 12 beacause of technical failure.

Pykälistö lead from stage 2 to stage 12, then Tuohino took the position and lead all the way to the finish. Jouni Ampuja was second with his Toyota Corolla WRC and the current Finnish Champion Sebastian Lindholm was third on his Peugeot 206 WRC.

The "guest star" F1-driver Mika Häkkinen did a good job in his Mitsubishi WRC2. He took it all the way to the finish and was 29th. He was 20 minutes 2 seconds behind the winner Tuohino.

In group N, over 2-litres Hannu Hotanen was the winner. He was 5th in the overall. He drives Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 7. He competed during the day with Jukka Ketomäki, but Ketomäki went out on stage 14, he managed to continue but lost three minutes. Second in class was Juha Salo and third Marko Uutela.

Class grN, under 2-litres winner was Timo Mäenpää with Honda Civic Type R and class A, under 2-litres winner was Tomi Tukiainen with VW Golf Kitcar.

Arctic Lapland Rally 2003, top 10 results
1. Janne Tuohino, Ford Focus WRC, 2.16.48,1
2. Jouni Ampuja, Toyota Corolla WRC, -3.02,3
3. Sebastian Lindholm, Peugeot 206 WRC, -4.51,9
4. Jari Viita, Ford Focus WRC, -5.23,2
5. Hannu Hotanen, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 7, -5.34,3 (gr N winner)
6. Jouko Tiri, Subaru Imprezza 555, - 6.17,7
7. Juha Salo, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 7, -6.17,7 (gr N, 2.)
8. Timo Hulkkonen, Ford Focus WRC, -7.40,7
9. Marko Uutela, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 7, -7.58,5 (gr N, 3.)
10. Heikki Westerlund, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6, - 8.00,6

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