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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...

This rally win was Latvala's first in the WRC and it made him the youngest WRC event winner ever. Latvala's win in Sweden made him the youngest WRC event winner ever. And to this day he still is the youngest WRC event winner. When he won here in Sweden he broke his idol's Henri Toivonen's previous record of being the youngest WRC event winner. Third on this list is a certain Mr. Alen too. This rally was Latvala's pretty much from the get go. Latvala set the pace early on stringing six back to back fastest times on Friday. That was enough for him and then for the last two days he just controlled the pace to keep the gap to the cars behind comfortable. A very confident win by the young Finn. Most of us won't become the youngest ever WRC event winner. I'm waay too old for that too already. But what we can do is to channel our inner Latvalas to be blitzing fast in snowy conditions. Hope you guys enjoy! DOWNLOAD (Download updated 28.7.2020 at 15:13...