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Kyon Rukawa wins Rally Finland 
The japanese Kyon Rukawa gains the victory at the VWRC Rally Finland in his Peugeot 206 WRC. All other favourites slip and lose very precious points.
VWRC
Kyon Rukawa celebrates his first win this season. Up to now, well-known for his consistent results, the japanese wins with a predominance of 49 seconds over the slovene Jernej Feltrin on Ford Focus RS WRC. Dennis Hernehult delivered a very strong performance too. He places 3rd, 14.4 seconds behind Feltrin.The pole Marek Zinkiewicz finishes 4th and was beaten by just 5 seconds by the swede Hernehult. Flying Fin Antti Kalhola went off road and only could finish thanks to SupeRally and a time penalty. Rank 5 in the end for Kalhola, who had hoped to place much better at his home event.
SVWRC
„The Rene Ritter drama“. Throughout most of the rally, the german was able to defend the lead against cautios driving Tommi Hirvela. However, on the very last stage the german hit a road limitation and choked off the engine of his Peugeot 207 S2000. Hirvela takes the gift and wins his home rally by 1.1 seconds. „I am really upset about this mistake, but that’s rally“, said the disappointed Rene Ritter. Lada Barvik comes 3rd with his Ford Fiesta S2000, already having a gap of 50 seconds.
PVWRC
Vlastimil Matousek brings success back to Mitsubishi. With his victory, he relegates the Subaru armada to the remaining places. Nevertheless, the rally was highly thrilling. Torsten Stein drives his Subaru Impreza N14 to second place, losing only 6.2 seconds. 3rd comes Vladimir Kubini with a gap of 10 seconds to Stein.
JVWRC
Mira Chech wins JVWRC class in his Skoda Fabia Kit Car. Piotr Walczak only could reach 2nd place with a Opel Corsa S1600. 3rd comes Lutz Steinbach with a delay of 2 minutes to the top positions. At the beginning, Miroslav Jilmnicky led the class. Unfortunately, he crashed his Opel Corsa on the penultimate stage and had to give up his ambitions to win.
V-Rookie Cup
A big surpise. This time it is not Jan Moravek, but Gregor Kruh, who is the man of the hour. Moravek had to struggle many problems and only finishes 5th. The slovene Kruh wins ahead of Jan Rybar and Oskari Willmann.
VWRC continues 12th August with the Rallye Deutschland. All news about the Virtual World Rally Championship are to be found at www.vwrc.net
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