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Recce notes: Neste Rally Finland

Advertising Tuesday and Wednesday are recce days in Finland, when WRC crews drive the stages and make their pace notes. We took to the stages too, joining the WRC TV location team on their hunt for the best camera positions. Here's what we found:Concrete markersCorner cutting is common practice in Finland, where drivers use every centimetre of the road to keep their speed up. Clipping the inside allows them to straighten the corner a little, but scrabbling tyres made a right mess of the softer roads. Last year, organisers lined some corners with aluminium marker boards to warn drivers to keep clear of the edges. This year the boards have been replaced by poles mounted in concrete blocks....
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