A record not to break?

Unstoppable at home last weekend, Kalle Rovanperä flew over the 2025 Finland rally with his co-pilot Jonne Halttunen. Similarly, While relying on the World Title race, he set a new Historic Record of Average Speed in WRC. Moreover, Fulted in front of its audience, the Toyota driver swallowed the 307.22 km of special in 2h21’51 “4, an average speed of 129.95 km/h on the entire test, which was made up of 20 specials. Furthermore,

The double world champion exploded the previous record, nine years old. Furthermore, It belonged to Kris Meeke, victorious at 126.60 km/h on average on these same Finnish roads in 2016, driving the Citroën DS3 WRC. Therefore, Kalle Rovanperä has pushed the limits with figures that are dizzying on a rally renowned for its long fast curves. Therefore, blind ridges and ultra-rapid forest roads

Specials at more record not break? than 140 km/h!

Nine of the twenty specials on the 2025 route were covered by the fastest driver at more than 130 km/h on average. Above all, two of them even exceeded 140 km/h: Västilä 2 (140.5 km/h) and Ouninpohja 2 (142.7 km/h). a completely crazy figure on a special legendary special for its technical difficulty and which served as Power Stage.

At the end of the weekend. Kalle Rovanperä won with 39 “2 ahead of his teammate Takamoto Katsuta, while Toyota signed an impressive five-time, completed by Sébastien Ogier, Elfyn Evans and Sami Pajari.

Ogier’s warning: “Sometimes a little too fast”

Third in the event. Sébastien Ogier did not hide his pleasure in front of the show offered by the Rally of Finland. The French pilot. now in the running for a ninth world title, however expressed a few reservations and called the organizers record not break? to perhaps review their copy in the future, judging the speeds affected too high.

“We felt that it was extremely fast all weekend, probably sometimes too fast, I think”he believes. “It’s fantastic here, it’s great, it’s fast, but you really have to ride at the limit. Some specials become a little too wide. and I am sure that in Finland we can find roads a little narrower. It would be even more interesting, and everyone would probably agree. But apart from that, the organization was incredible.”

A clear message sent to the organizers. while the search for speed could have reached a critical threshold which, more than the danger strictly speaking, amputates the share of technique acting as a differentiating factor between performance.