Happy 40th birthday Mikko!
Here's a skin from a rally that begun also on this day, 12 years ago. Or something. I'm too tired to check it properly.
With former teammate Marcus Grönholm out of the picture as he retired at the end of 2007, Hirvonen was looking like one of the favorites to take his first home win. Having won two rallies already in 2008. Including the previous rally, which was held in Turkey.
Despite giving his best efforts to it, he was beaten by this French chap you guys might have heard of. Sebastien Loeb or something like that. Apparently he was quite a good driver. The duo battled head to head throughout the rally. The biggest the gap ever was was 18,2 seconds. In the end it was 9 seconds in Loeb's advantage. Mikko stated at the finish of the rally: "It was a fantastic fight, Sebastian was just faster, it's rally, the result is excellent, the most important thing is that I drove as best I could." (Quote from eWRC)
That's something I appreciate very much about Mikko. He was a fair driver, and I can't remember him ever being a sore loser. That is a very appreciatable (is that a word?) feature.
Anyway, here's Mikko's livery from Rally Finland 2008. Hope you guys enjoy!
(Also, updated Latvala's Rally Sweden 2008 skin just a few days ago, make sure to update that too if you're going to use it. It's downloadable in the Latvala post.)
Here's a skin from a rally that begun also on this day, 12 years ago. Or something. I'm too tired to check it properly.
With former teammate Marcus Grönholm out of the picture as he retired at the end of 2007, Hirvonen was looking like one of the favorites to take his first home win. Having won two rallies already in 2008. Including the previous rally, which was held in Turkey.
Despite giving his best efforts to it, he was beaten by this French chap you guys might have heard of. Sebastien Loeb or something like that. Apparently he was quite a good driver. The duo battled head to head throughout the rally. The biggest the gap ever was was 18,2 seconds. In the end it was 9 seconds in Loeb's advantage. Mikko stated at the finish of the rally: "It was a fantastic fight, Sebastian was just faster, it's rally, the result is excellent, the most important thing is that I drove as best I could." (Quote from eWRC)
That's something I appreciate very much about Mikko. He was a fair driver, and I can't remember him ever being a sore loser. That is a very appreciatable (is that a word?) feature.
Anyway, here's Mikko's livery from Rally Finland 2008. Hope you guys enjoy!
(Also, updated Latvala's Rally Sweden 2008 skin just a few days ago, make sure to update that too if you're going to use it. It's downloadable in the Latvala post.)
Here's some more photos of the skin in action. Pictures by me.
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