Thread: [IRC] 2012 Tour de Corse

Originally Posted by Hartusvuori

I can't remember any other tarmac entry for Nikara other than Catalunya in his PSD year in 2009.

Nikara did the British Rally Championship in 2010. See here: eWRC-results.com - profile Jarkko Nikara I even have a postcard of him in the Jim Clark Rally 2010 with a Renault Twingo R2.

First notional times coming Breen +16"

Breen now 7th overall .. 0.1sec behind 6th place Manzagol

IRC Tour de Corse 2012 ES8 Mattei on fire - YouTube

Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Breen now 7th overall .. 0.1sec behind 6th place Manzagol

Only 10" behind Mikkelsen...but the Norwegian looks faster on this event until now

Originally Posted by secalez

IRC Tour de Corse 2012 ES8 Mattei on fire - YouTube

Bad remembrances to see a rally car on fire in a Corsican stage.

Is this first time a Fabia S2000 burns so badly?

Arzeno slide-Simulcam Sordo vs Kopecky videos
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Any youtube footage of the days highlights?

Originally Posted by dimviii

Arzeno slide-Simulcam Sordo vs Kopecky videos
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Simulcam is brilliant there! Mini seems better under braking but Kopecky pulls away quicker, quite surprisingly.

Originally Posted by wwbroe

Mikkelsen also loosing quite a lot of time 1min17

Looks very interesting rally.. what the hell Mikkelsen was thinking of when passing car that is in flames. He should have stopped and lend his small fire-extinguisher. The car was badly in flames but it should be non-written rule that when someone is in trouble with fire you should stop and help as much as possible. Sad.

Originally Posted by bluuford

Looks very interesting rally.. what the hell Mikkelsen was thinking of when passing car that is in flames. He should have stopped and lend his small fire-extinguisher. The car was badly in flames but it should be non-written rule that when someone is in trouble with fire you should stop and help as much as possible. Sad.

There must have been 5-6 cars passing him, not only Mikkelsen. And if you see on the video Mattei and his co-driver are just trying to reduce Mikkelsens speed in the curve. If they had needed help they had stopped him. A small fire-extinguisher couldnt have done anything at that moment, the car was already all covered in flames.

Originally Posted by VFTS

There must have been 5-6 cars passing him, not only Mikkelsen. And if you see on the video Mattei and his co-driver are just trying to reduce Mikkelsens speed in the curve. If they had needed help they had stopped him. A small fire-extinguisher couldnt have done anything at that moment, the car was already all covered in flames.

+1 the status of fire we saw at video can t be quench with fire extinguishers carying the cars.It was too late unfortunately.

some new photos
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Originally Posted by bluuford

Looks very interesting rally.. what the hell Mikkelsen was thinking of when passing car that is in flames. He should have stopped and lend his small fire-extinguisher. The car was badly in flames but it should be non-written rule that when someone is in trouble with fire you should stop and help as much as possible. Sad.

I totally agree, I was fuming that all the cars carried on and didnt stop to help. Not so much Mikkleson but the 1st car on the scene should of stopped to help because it cant of been that bad when the 1st car arrived.

Good stage by Kopecky, keep pushing Honza!

Ι think that it was better for Mikkelsen to stop for a minute.Just to say "I feel with you but i can't be much help otherwise." Nothing else.

Originally Posted by RS

Good stage by Kopecky, keep pushing Honza!

Please Campana and Bouffier, react in SS10 !!!