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SKIN - Teemu Suninen / Mikko Markkula - VW Polo R5 - Secto Rally Finland 2021

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2021 was a year of highs and lows for Teemu Suninen. Starting off with a SS1 crash in Monte Carlo started a snowball effect which gradually led to him being replaced by Adrien Fourmaux at M-Sport's WRC roster. Undeniable highlight of the year was his home rally, the newly rebranded Secto Rally Finland. He entered the rally with Printsport's Polo R5 with the backing of a Finnish businessman Markku Rautio.  He well and truly delivered a brilliant performance, winning WRC2 comfortably over the competitors like Mads Östberg, Emil Lindholm and Nikolay Gryazin.  In the pictures here you see him on SS1, resulting in 7th best time in WRC2, 1.56,0. Differently to the usual schedule, the Harju stage was driven in the middle of the day on Friday and at night time on Saturday evening.  This result launched him into getting a seat at Hyundai's WRC2 team, and even getting into the WRC car for Rally Monza due to Ott's absence. In the latter half of the year he actually drove 5 consecu...

SKIN - Craig Breen / Paul Nagle - Rally Poland 2021 - Hyundai i20 R5

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 Hi! I'm continuing with the MRF theme, it was easy to edit this one after last week's Huttunen skin. Being out of the WRC he got a call-up from the MRF team to drive their car in the first 3 ERC events of the season.  Unusual 2021 ERC season started very late only in June with the 100th anniversary of Rally Poland. The rally started with the double-car superspecial Mikolajki Arena 1, where he was 2nd fastest.  After 3 stages he was 3rd overall. On the next stage problems started and he eventually had to retire due to suspension breaking from 5th position at the end of day 1.  Continuing on the 2nd day with superrally, he was on the limit whole day and  was in the top3 on all stages, posting 3 fastest times.  On the rally ending Rally Poland 100th anniversary stage, commonly known to RBR players as Karowa, he posted a fastest time to finish the rally positively. < < < DOWNLOAD > > >

SKIN - Jari Huttunen / Mikko Lukka - Hyundai i20 R5 - Barum Czech Rally Zlin 2021

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Hi! First some general news.  1. I have added a donation button onto the left sidebar. In no way is it mandatory, but feel free to use it if you want to support my hobby. I would appreciate it a lot. Thank you for all the nice messages! 2. If you want your own personalized RBR skin, I can make it for you, for a small compensation. Send me a message on Discord if you're interested.  Now, onto the good stuff. We've reached a milestone of 25 skins on my blog. We can celebrate that with the skin of Jari Huttunen from last year's one-off ERC appearance for MRF team in the Barum Czech Rally Zlin.  Huttunen got a surprise call from the Indian tyre manufacturer to drive their car in the European Championship rally after the Irishman Craig Breen did the first 3 rallies of the season. After 6 stages he was in 9th place just under a minute behind the leaders, posting stage times between 7th and 12th overall on all stages.  Barum Rally has a reputation for being one of the harde...

SKIN - Teemu Suninen / Mikko Markkula - Rally Finland 2016 - Skoda Fabia R5 (b)

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Hello! Finally time for a Teemu Suninen skin. This is his 2016 Rally Finland car when he was driving for the French Team Oreca in the first generation Skoda Fabia R5.   2016 was a big make it or break it year for Suninen, with both eyes aimed at one of the few World Rally Car seats for the 2017 season. He drove the full WRC2 season with Team Oreca's Skoda Fabia R5 and managed to clinch 2nd position, on equal points with Elfyn Evans and only 10 points behind Esapekka Lappi. 3 wins and a few podiums caught Malcolm Wilson's eye and he earned himself a move to M-Sport, mainly in the WRC2 class plus two rallies in the Fiesta WRC in 2017. Overall 2016 was probably the most competitive WRC2 field to this date, with the likes of Lappi, Evans, Tidemand and Kopecky all fighting for wins, which made his results even more impressive.  In Rally Finland the fight for win was only between Suninen and Lappi. After Friday, Lappi was leading by 42,5 seconds. On Saturday and Sunday Teemu's ...

SKIN - Riku Tahko / Markus Soininen - Arctic Lapland Rally 2021 - Hyundai i20 R5

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  Hello again! Back with another skin I took a lot of time to finish. This time another skin from the Finnish championship, and it's the Hyundai i20 R5 of Riku Tahko. He has been driving various cars over the years and switched to Hyundai for this season.  In the rally itself, he was not quite on the pace of the top guys but managed to finish on a solid 5th position. The pace improved in the next rally in Kouvola where he achieved his first podium in the Finnish championship since 2011.  > > > DOWNLOAD < < < Once again, I have included the preview pictures in the package, so just download the .7z and extract into the main folder :)

SKIN - Emil Lindholm / Mikael Korhonen - Rally Croatia 2021 - Skoda Fabia R5 Evo

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 Hello all again!  It's time for another Lindholm skin after his solid performance in the WRC3 category in Rally Croatia. The Finn achieved a 2nd place finish in a competitive field of cars. The only drawback in his whole race was a puncture on SS2 which set him back about 40 seconds and ultimately giving some breathing room for Kajetanovic.  > > > DOWNLOAD < < < Note: I'm aware that GRR-skin has published this skin too here . Although, I noticed many flaws in the details on that one. I have tried to keep a tight eye on details, I hope you appreciate it :) 

SKIN - Valtteri Bottas / Tom Piallat - Rally Cote d'Azur 2020 test - Citroen C3 R5

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Hello!  Made the skin of Valtteri Bottas from his test day in October last year for the Rally Cote d'Azur in Southern France that unfortunately got cancelled. To my knowledge he is the only Finnish driver who has driven the Citroen C3 R5.   It is kind of a rare car because I think this was only driven on that one day and there's not many pictures of it. Thankfully it didn't have too complicated features or unclear sponsor logos.  P.S. there is another one of Bottas coming next, keep on the look for that!  If you are a huge Bottas fan there is also this skin for the Fiesta WRC 2019 made by Leka.  The download package includes the preview pictures for RSF and CZ plugin installations, just unzip the package to the main folder. > > > DOWNLOAD < < <

SKIN - Emil Lindholm / Mikael Korhonen - Neste Rally Finland 2019 - VW Polo GTI R5

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The son of a Finnish rallying legend Sebastian Lindholm, Emil drove a VW Polo R5 for most of the 2019 season. Here is his skin from Rally Finland, his 5th WRC event.  He was the fastest R5 runner in the Friday opening stage but hit trouble after damaging a wheel on SS Moksi so his rally was ruined. He continued the rally on Saturday and was impressively fast, being the fastest WRC2 driver on most of the stages.  Here's some pictures of him on the rally opener SS1 Harju where he was 3rd fastest in RC2 class with a time of 1.54,0. < < < DOWNLOAD > > > UPDATED in May 2023 to v2 +better wheel, rims and front grille textures, updated shader files