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Let's not go through this once again

For the nth time, Mahonen never said we should have shorter rallies, he said we should have shorter stages.

BTW I happened to stumble upon a comment in a closed Finnish rally facebook group where...

It's also possible the team has tested on the stage in the previous years so they could have footage of their own.

For example Tänak tested this year on the small road part of Ouninpohja that was...

There has been other onboards than just WRC+. Not sure if the teams have had access to the full onboard footage earlier, but at least there have been "recce videos" shot in traffic on a road car....

That is in January, two weeks before Monte Carlo Rally.

http://www.sportti.com/uutinen.asp?CAT=1-2&ID=352667

Quite interesting quote from Seb that I don't recall seeing elsewhere. Something like "when I reveal my decision, you will understand why I...

Tänak deserves the prize for developing to a rally winning, championship contender level. Meanwhile, compared to previous years, Ogier regressed this season

Is Jari Latvala (sr) really so rich? His business is importing and selling used tractors harvesters and their parts. He was also a rally driver, but never got past national privateer level. I...

The 3 minute gap was a standard between WRC Trophy and WRC2, but Kopecky basically lost WRC2 win in Catalunya because he caught Serderidis on the long Terra Alta stage. After that they increased the...

He's the only WRC Trophy driver who didn't crash once in 2017. And now he might actually be fast enough not to be caught by the next R5 driver starting after him ;)

Or makes it harder for a single driver to get stage wins because there's more stage winning drivers on the last day

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNc_nFLVwAA8emS?format=jpg&name=large

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Gary made them already, by my request

That project is dead. Colin Clark confirmed that on twitter after talking with Al Attiyah at some rally event earlier this year.

https://twitter.com/voiceofrally/status/902081352341827584

http://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-qpka5-30880b0

Not sure if that link changed...

http://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-qpka5-30880b0

Long Autosport interview with Jari-Matti Latvala about his last year, transition to Toyota, developing the car and also about Wales Rally GB

Kalle was selling his stash of Pirelli tyres on facebook a while ago, so I guess he's not on Pirellis anymore

They probably wasted a lot of testing days for Mikkelsen

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I had to try to make a Rally Finland itinerary with three...

"Just like it used to be" was that the drivers could get fresh tyres and service between every stage :D

Like I said above, you can have more, but usually the liaisons to the service are so long that there's no time to do a third leg. Of course you could do three legs with just refuel and tyre refitting...

http://www.motorsport-total.com/rallye/WRC-Sportliches-Reglement-2016-Englisch.pdf



I think the 80 km rule makes it hard to make longer rallies. If you do 80+80 on a friday, 80+80 on saturday...

What I noticed is that only five drivers are doing a complete season this year: Ogier, Tänak, Evans, Latvala and Neuville. And interestingly, the only team to do so for all its drivers is M-Sport,...

Almost the same as this year, obviously the fast Knon stage replaced with Torntorp and like you said, Torsby Sprint added. Also Norway loop run in different order

Just an interesting detail. I mean, Corte-Taverna was driven as it was until the 1990's and we didn't get more fatal accidents there, so obviously it's not a super dangerous road

2nd stage looks like the second half of Corte-Taverna, the stage that was fatal in 1986. But the tragedy happened on the first half.