Driving down the New South Wales east coast brought us to Coffs Harbour, a town organizing the World Rally Championship competition on 17.- 20.11.2016. We stayed there two nights, and the first Finnish we met through our whole journey by far was the driver Jari-Matti Latvala! The first evening there was the opening ceremony of the event, and there we met so many cool people and beautiful cars. Marja’s favourite was the police car which was there because of the security of the event.

For the rally itself we got a three-day pass from lovely people from Tasmania, who drove Volvo Amazon in classic car series! We are really grateful and wait them to catch us up in Finland!

We checked altogether four stages, one of those was super special stage at the seaside.

Besides we checked the service area. The Skoda team is our favourite! A car from our favourite country (if we don’t count Australia), Finnish driving to victory in WRC2 class, and friendly service team we got to say “Ahoj!”.

There are not so many spectators in the rally event than in Finland and it was really easy to move from point to another, no problems with parking etc. Also, in every spot there were proper toilets (similar to those in airplanes) and small stand of local Lions Club selling rally sausages and drinks. No drunken people, no rush. We got the whole idea of the rally from Tuomas from Finland, and we got to meet him for a short while at one of the stages!