2019 Rally Finland
The 2019 Rally Finland (also known as Neste Rally Finland 2019) was a motor racing event for rally cars held over four days between 1 and 4 August 2019. It marked the sixty-ninth running of Rally Finland and was the ninth round of the 2019 World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2 and the newly-created WRC-2 Pro class. It was also the fourth round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The 2019 event was based in Jyväskylä in Keski-Suomi, and was contested over twenty-three special stages with a total a competitive distance of 307.58 km (191.12 mi).
| 2019 Rally Rally Finland 69. Neste Rally Finland | |||
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Round 9 of 14 in the 2019 World Rally Championship
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Rally Finland has the fastest average speed of any event on the calendar. | |||
| Host country | Finland | ||
| Rally base | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi | ||
| Dates run | 1 – 4 August 2019 | ||
| Start location | Jyväskylä, Keski-Suomi | ||
| Finish location | Ruuhimäki, Toivakka | ||
| Stages | 23 (307.58 km; 191.12 miles) | ||
| Stage surface | Gravel | ||
| Transport distance | 1,066.09 km (662.44 miles) | ||
| Overall distance | 1,373.67 km (853.56 miles) | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Crews registered | 65 | ||
| Crews | 61 at start, 49 at finish | ||
| Overall results | |||
| Overall winner | Ott Tänak Martin Järveoja Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 2:30:40.3 | ||
| Power Stage winner | Ott Tänak Martin Järveoja Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT | ||
| Support category results | |||
| WRC-2 winner | Nikolay Gryazin Yaroslav Fedorov Nikolay Gryazin 2:41:09.0 | ||
| J-WRC winner | Tom Kristensson Henrik Appelskog Tom Kristensson 2:55:17.2 | ||
Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, were the defending manufacturers' winners. The local crew of Eerik Pietarinen and Juhana Raitanen were the defending winners in the World Rally Championship-2 category, but they did not defend their titles as they were promoted to the newly-created WRC-2 Pro class by Škoda Motorsport. The Estonian crew of Ken Torn and Kuldar Sikk were the reigning winners of the Junior World Rally Championship, but they did not compete the rally.
Tänak and Järveoja successfully defended their titles, adding their winning number to double figures. Their team, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT, won the rally three years in a row. Local youngster Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen took their fourth consecutive victory in the WRC-2 Pro category, finishing first in the combined WRC-2 category, while the Russian crew of Nikolay Gryazin and Yaroslav Fedorov won the wider WRC-2 class as well as snatching their first WRC point. Tom Kristensson and Henrik Appelskog took their second victory of the season in the junior category to regain the championship lead.