| Rallye int.: At the right time at
the right place
Anywhere in a belgium forest during rally
D´Aywaille a VW Golf hits a tree. Before some spectators have pushed the car back on the
track, the fans are crying: “Perä Tielle”! In Kempenich and Altenkirchen, too,
crashed drivers are cheered with that words. But what does “Perä Tielle” mean?
The translation from Finnish to German means
“backwards off the road”. The inventor of that saying is Timo Mikkola, chief of
the video-production-company with the same name from Tampere in the south-west of Finland.
Since 1997 the thirty-year-old produces motorsportvideos, including many crash-films.
„I have produced 25 films since then, but
I still have a normal daily job“, says Timo Mikkola. At daytime the bachelor is
working as a distributor for a parcel service and in the evenings the films are cutted.
“For part 13 of Perä Tielle 38 guys sent me pictures, each cassette had a lenght of
ten minutes up to some hours. Then my eyes were red!”
For Timo Finland is the rally-paradise. “Where
else in the world do you have this roads, this jumps and that kind of drifting? And of
course this accidents ... For a two-hours Perä Tielle we normally need six months to have
enough material.” The Finn visits about 30 to 40 events during the year and he often
is at the right time at the right place. “Finnish Rallies are normally secret and
drivers have no chance of recce.” And don´t forget: Finnish organizers often use
special stages, where in the past some offs happened, because it shouldn´t be too easy
for the competitors...
Surely Timos dream would be to transform his
hobby to his full-time-job. “Sales increase from month to month, but I still can´t
live from the takings. And for a girl-friend I have less time and money.” The Finn
would be glad to have more time reading German motorsport-magazines like Autobild
Motorsport or ADAC Nordrhein-Report. “I am not so good in understanding German, but
your magazines are great!”
Mikkolas films have a great (digital) quality
and they often have onboard-pictures. “You think, you are sitting just besides the
driver. This driftings are unbelievable”, the Finn swarms.
Some days ago Timo Mikkola published the first
edition of Perä Tielle International, about two hours of great action from Belgium,
Germany and Estonia. “Global strategy is important for us, too”, Timo means with
a winking. “We will help Altenkirchen, Oberehe or Taunus to a worldwide degree of
fame.” In that connection the thirty-year- old would like to say “thank you”
to his German friend Markus Jahn, “because without him Perä Tielle International
wouldn´t have been possible.”
More information under www.peratielle.com |