Toyota WRC boss Jari-Matti Latvala wanted to cry after witnessing Kalle Rovanpera end Finland's 20-year wait for a world champion in RallyNZ.
with a dominant victory at Rally New Zealand that included a powerstage win.
Rovanpera is the seventh Finn to become world rally champion following in the footsteps of Ari Vatanen [1981], Hannu Mikkola [1983], Timo Salonen [1985], Juha Kankkunen [1986-87, 1991, 1993], Tommi Makinen [1996-1999] and Marcus Gronholm [2000, 2002]. "You could feel that the interest for rallying was going down, down and down [in Finland] but since Kalle has been going so well it has risen again.
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