Esapekka Lappi opened up about his feelings after he crashed into a tree in the lead of the Jyväskylä World Rally Championship.
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Esapekka Lappi has sorted out the events of the Jyväskylä World Rally Championship Friday for the media in the service park. Lappi ran into a tree at the Halttula special test.
What is the condition of the man and cartographer Janne Fermi?
– There is no direct clarity about Janne. No danger to life or anything. Otherwise, SOS would have been printed. We went to the doctor’s examinations and Janne went to the filming. My side hurt a bit. The ribs are described so that there are no afterthoughts. My ankle is swollen but not broken. We’re alive, that’s the main thing, Lappi said.
Esapekka Lapi’s collision had 17:G forces.
– It’s not good for the human body like that, Lappi admitted.
Lapland was unsure if it would be able to continue the race on Saturday thanks to the rally 2 rule. Lappi suspects that the car will no longer be in race condition.
– We’ll see. I’m not very confident that we’ll continue. Hasn’t there been enough of a show? What’s the matter, let’s go for a drive if the car can be fixed, Lappi said.
According to Lapi, the cause of the collision was a note error.
– Everything started already at the bend turning left. Pera fell asleep. Shouldn’t have stayed. Then I had a note error going into the right turn. The note was too fast. I can be proud that I drove it. But there was no hope of surviving that place, Lappi opened.
Lappi described that he could go racing for his own leg if the car is in good condition.
– The family is waiting downstairs in the hotel. Goes around with the kids. You forget all the rallies and sorrows, Lappi told how he planned to reset the situation.
Hyundai’s Finnish driver was fourth in the race before the dramatic moment. According to Lappi, the overriding feeling is precisely fright, not disappointment. According to Lappi, crashing into a tree was the scariest moment of his rally career.
– There have never been such feelings. So many rides and saw that we were going straight towards the tree, Lappi said.
He estimated that the speed at the time of the collision was 130–140 kilometers per hour.
– Yes, it was quite a lot to think about what could happen in the space of a few tenths of a second.
Just a moment after the interview with Lapland, Finnish people saw more drama when Kalle Rovanperä drove his car onto its roof at the Myhinpää special test.