The path of the world champion is ambitious.
Kalle Rovanperä At the end of the season, says the World Rally Championship and heads to Super Formulas next year.
The Japanese series is To Mika Salo Familiar with four seasons.
– Kalle is good for that yet. It’s a good new challenge, but it’s not easy. If you do well in that series, you can do anywhere, Salo says.
– It’s a really tough series. When I drove there, half formula 1 –from creak (driver stream) came from there.
Salo seeks names: Johnny Herbert, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Jan Lammers…
– No matter how much we were there. Really big herd.
– There will be less it today [F1-]jockeys, but the level of the series hasn’t fallen at all.
Rovanperä has a lot of learning ahead.
-The challenge is that you will become you with the car because the Formula car is completely different from any other car. It is much more reactive and sensitive. Kalle has raced on the track only by a GT car, which is very forgiving. The adjustment does not have to be right, but you can replace the rest with the end. In a formula car, the adjustments must be treated with a millimeter accuracy.
Hard pressure
Mika Salo knows the demand for Super Formulas. Pasi Liesimaa
Rovanperä may even seek to rise to Formula One. After the Super formulas, the Finnish plan has been drawn for the F2 season for 2027.
Salo is not going to predict Rovanperä’s crusty pain to the top in track and run, but praises the courage and ambition of a 25-year-old rally master.
The step is huge, as the result must come right away.
– It is useless to go to F2 if you can’t do it. That’s a pretty clear thing. Success must come there.
Rovanperä starts to aim for the F1 dream with the support of Toyota. The Japanese giant returned to the kingdom class this season in the background of Haas.
According to Salo, it smoothes Rovanperä Road, but the actual clearing work must be done in the wheel of the car itself.
-If there is no success, there will be no license points, he reminds me of the super-license required by F1 drivers, which will not come off without considerable success at lower levels.
Kalle Rovanperä must quickly get to the grain from the adjustments of the formula car. Vesa Pöppönen / AOP