Motorsport News  |  3rd August 2016
MEEKE HITS NEW HIGH
Kris Meeke pulls up at the arrival control for Mokkipera. It’s 0724hrs, Friday. Three minutes to the start of Rally Finland proper. One minute: push back in the seat; shuffle the shoulders. Comfy? Comfy. Thirty seconds. Tighten the belts. And again. Ten. Five. One. Let’s go. First corner, it’s complicated. The organisers have planted poles on the inside of bends to stop the drivers from cutting. That was playing on the Northern Irishman’s mind. “It gets you thinking,” he said “You have to change the note. Keep out. What’s that going to do to the camber?” What’s worse, Meeke and that first corner have history. He explained: “The first time I ever came to Finland [in 2003], I cut that corner in the Opel [Corsa]. The sumpguard hit the ground and we went off. Took a tree out, absolutely destroyed the car. That was using it in the opposite direction.
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Below is a selection of articles in Motorsport News 3rd August 2016.