Fifth round of Finnish Rally championship, OK Auto Rally, was driven in Kouvola area and it was second summer event in Finnish series. Subaru Dealer Team Finland’s driver Jari Ketomaa wins this event which is fourth victory in a row this season. For Ketomaa who already has comfortable lead in the championship before this event, it didn’t have any extra pressure for more victories to achieve the title. But as always Ketomaa’s target was to clinch the top spot. However the early stages were not easy ones for him.

“Starting with number one was disadvantage and I did lack grip on both braking and corner entries. My suspension settings were changed even softer and we did put some two millimetres more height to rear of the car on the first service”, told Ketomaa."After the set-up changes the grip level felt better and I could really push.”

Ketomaa was easily fastest in SS4 where he did beat next ones with 8.8. After that stage Ketomaa’s lead was 26 seconds. Eventually he won the event with 20.1 seconds in front of Juha Salo. Other TMR-run Subaru driver Kristian Sohlberg did lost only 0.5 seconds to Salo and finished in 3rd.

“On the last stages I didn’t need to push maximum. Of course I’m happy after good result for our team. Next I will be facing a big challenge in Rally Finland with Subaru Impreza WRC. “ Ketomaa commented.

Jari Ketomaa and his Co-driver, Miika Teiskonen are leading both drivers and co-drivers series by 28 points.

The next round of Finnish championship, round 6 “SM Rally” will be taken place from 28-29 August around Kerava.