Esapekka Lappi Had a Rough Rally Finland

Esapekka Lappi splits time in a Toyota GR Yaris rally car with eight-time WRC champion Sebastian Ogier, so he needs to make the rallies he enters count. When he got the nod for this weekend's Rally Finland, he converted the opportunity into four stage wins and entered the event's final stages in third. This being Rally Finland, though, things quickly got weird.

Lappi dug into a rut and rolled three times. That is not all that unusual for a WRC event. Even his choice to finish the stage and lose less than 30 seconds, all while driving a car with a smashed windscreen, dented roof, and leaking radiator, is pretty par for the course for pro rallying. The strange thing is what happened between stages, with just one more event to go.