Sami Pajari delivers Finland's 200th WRC win. Sebastien Ogier crashes out of the lead and ends up in hospital. Elfyn Evans leaves Rally Finland with an even bigger championship lead than he arrived with.

Drew is joined by Chris Gilbertson to unpack the wildest weekend of the WRC season so far, from torrential rain and misted windscreens on Friday to a terrifying high speed crash for Ogier on Saturday evening. They talk through Pajari's rise from quiet, consistent podium finisher to genuine title contender, why Evans looks like a different driver in 2026, and the extraordinary effort from Finnish fans who kept pulling cars out of ditches all weekend.

There's also time for Esapekka Lappi's big accident and what it means for his future in the car, Adrien Fourmaux's tough season in a Hyundai that only seems to work on dry gravel, a controversial WRC2 penalty that decided the podium behind an unstoppable Robert Vervis, and a first look at what the newly confirmed sale of the WRC promoter could mean for the championship going forward.

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