Both I and the car were very well prepared for this home rally. About a week before the race I put my notes in order in the tests and I was ready to drive for a place on the podium, I was even ready to fight for the victory. The rally started with Killeri Super Special on Thursday. I was number six, 0.8 seconds behind Sebastien Loeb who drove the fastest time. On Friday morning I started smoothly trying to find the right rhythm and wanting to avoid stupid mistakes. My driving was clean and riskless which gave me the third fastest time in Vellipohja 3.2 seconds behind Hirvonen and Loeb who both had the same time. Then came Mokkipera. My intention was to drive similarly as in Vellipohja. Everything seemed and felt perfect until my world crashed. There was a combination of right-left corner going through a yard. I tried to cut a bit from the right hand corner to get a good and straight line to the left. But on the right there was a huge stone which I hit. My front tyre got damaged which I felt in the steering while driving on. I tried to think what could be wrong and then the connecting tie rod broke down and I lost the control of the car totally. The tie rod had twisted when hitting the stone and it broke down 300 meters later. The car went into a ditch where I drove about 100 meters until the car stopped towards a birch. “This can’t be happening! This cannot be true! Why again in Mokkipera?” I had to retire but luckily the car wasn’t too much damaged so we were able to continue on Saturday (Super Rally rule). The first stage on Saturday was Himos but my driving was lost after the events on Friday and I ditched the car in the fourth corner in a slow pace, though. I stepped on the gas and was sure the car would come back to the road but it didn’t. Fortunately there were professional spectators on the spot and they managed to get the car off the ditch in about half a minute and we were in the race again. Finally during the stages on Saturday I got back my self confidence and managed to drive three fastest times. Sunday was a short day and I enjoyed driving. I drove one fastest time of the three possible and took the car to the finish. I felt pretty empty because we were in the 39 th position and my intention had been to be on the podium. Hopefully next year I will able to drive a good home rally, but before that there will be many races and many corners…