Rally Guide 2 - Neste Oil Rally Finland

1. Introduction & Welcome
Dear rally friends,
A warm welcome to Neste Oil Rally Finland 2012! On your screen you see our brand-new Rally Guide 2,
in electric format as per the FIA regulations. We wish to support FIA in this step towards smaller paper
consumption in WRC events - every little bit helps!
As already said in Rally Guide 1, we have taken the best bits of last year’s greatly renewed concept and trust
this 2012 modification to be perfect for all parties concerned - drivers, media, spectators and organisers.
Shaking and jumping around in Ruuhimäki Qualifying Stage, an intensive Thursday evening down in Lahti area,
long day on Friday and the grande finale in Ouninpohja Power Stage on Saturday - this should be enough to
keep us all on our toes for the weekend!
Our Paviljonki Service Area is washing its face of all the dust and dirt from heavy construction for the duration
of the rally. New office blocks, the magnificient new Sokos Hotel Paviljonki bang in the middle of it all, new
tarmac here and there - we’re sure you’ll love it!
One leading theme for this year’s event is the FIA Action for Road Safety campaign (see more in Art. 17.1). The
campaign will be launched in Finland during the rally and AKK-Motorsport will be continuing this campaign for
the rest of the year. In the rally, FIA Action for Road Safety will show in our children’s traffic park at Paviljonki,
in our theme day in Lahti on Thursday with moped handling competitions and tuition, as well as at the theme
truck which will be touring the rally throughout the weekend with ex-F1 driver Mika Salo and GP3 driver Aaro
Vainio (among others). AKK-Motorsport Driver Academy supports the FIA Action for Road Safety.
With this in mind, we wish you all a safe rally and an enjoyable stay as our guests in Neste Oil Rally Finland!
Yours sincerely,
Neste Oil Rally Finland Team
1.2 Environmental Policy
The organiser of Neste Oil Rally Finland, AKK Sports Ltd, wishes to act responsibly towards the environment in a
most effective way and wants to make sure that its event causes minimal harm to the society and environment.
The company also puts focus on pursuing a more eco-friendly all-round approach by awakening consciousness
of environmental issues in rally fans and all other factions involved.
In order to promote environmental responsibility, the organiser will:
- obey all laws and bylaws
- educate its own organisation and volunteers in environmental issues
- pursue options for better use of energy and eco-friendly solutions
- focus on minimising the amount of waste from the event and looking after its recycling, both in the special
stages and in the service park
- favour eco-friendly materials when building up the event
- strive to minimise the use of private cars in its event by increasing public transport
- fill the cars used by its organisation with the best eco-friendly fuel available
- demand eco-friendly solutions from its suppliers
- commit to decrease the number of prints and photocopies in the media centre
According to the current FIA trend, Neste Oil Rally Finland will also do its utmost to reduce its carbon footprint.
One important factor is the number of print outs made from various documents. Rally Guide 2 will only be
published on the event website and a bare minimum of supplementary regulations will be printed for the key
officials and competitors.
We would appreciate all competitors joining us for this campaign by informing us early the number of road books
and other printed documents they need (should this be less than the regulatory package), so we do not end up
throwing a lot of unused materials straight to recycling.
© AKK Sports Ltd
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