Skoda Fabia R5 (b) - Ville Pynnönen - SM Pohjanmaa Ralli 2021

Good to see you driving again Ville!

Those of you who are not familiar with Ville's story, I'll make a short recap. He crashed out in ERC Rally Liepaja in 2020. It didn't look too bad. But he was heavily recommended by doctors not to drive again for a while for medical reasons. And then in SM Pohjanmaa Ralli 2021 Ville made his competitive return to the Finnish Championship after a half a year hiatus from driving. He didn't test too much before the event (less than 100km) so in my opinion his result of being 8th in his comeback isn't too shabby.

Pohjanmaa Ralli was mentally quite a tough one for Ville who I've learned to know to be quite critical of himself when it comes to driving. He didn't have the routine down yet, and there was no confidence of the normal kind in his driving. But Ville's driving did improve indeed when he got back to the rhythm, with the statistical highlight of his rally coming in SS5, where Ville was 7th fastest.

And personally having followed Ville's driving break somewhat close through our FiSU Rally Team chat and some DMs, I was happy as hell to see Ville driving again!

Hope you guys get as much joy out of this skin as I do. Enjoy!