2008 Jordan Rally - official thread

[Brother John]

Source:without my personal explanation!
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/r/wm/d/...ten/index.html

[DonJippo]

Source:without my personal explanation!
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/r/wm/d/...ten/index.html

Also shows who he thinks was quilty for the accident but to say "I wonder how much Ford has paid to Rautenbach" is a bit too much even if it was said as a joke.

[Kamikaze]

Maybe the Sun was too hot, or he banged his head at the Crash ?

[kabouter]

That is very interesting. Also interesting that Mikko has only scored 9 stage wins this year and four of those were in Jordan.

http://www.juwra.com/season_2008_stats_stage_wins.html

Those Pirelli control tyres must be really excellent, winning 101% of the stages this year...

[jonkka]

Those Pirelli control tyres must be really excellent, winning 101% of the stages this year...

Note the explanation on sidebar:
Total percentage can exceed 100 because shared stage wins are credited to more than one driver but stage itself is counted only once in total.

[Camelopard]

So they made the roads for this rally ?

Where did you get that information from? The roads existed before and the Jordanians graded them and packed the surface before the rally, is this not done elsewhere in the world?

The Jordanian Government put a lot into this rally and to be quite honest it is good to see a pro motorsport government involved, unlike most of the governments where traditional rallies are run. Most of the spectators were local but there were also quite a few from Lebabnon, Syria, Saudi and the other Gulf states.

As I said in the spectator thread, I'll be going back, the Jordanians are very friendly people, the food is great and shock, horror, you can even buy alcohol!

My only criticism was that it was so bleedin' hot, although it is not normally that hot at that time of the year, July yes, but not April.

Lack of spectators, imo opinion great, you can get really close to the cars, talk to the drivers and see lot's of action without being stuck in traffic jams like in Germany or walking for kilometres to get a good spot with no-one else around like a lot of other rallies, or being herded around like sheep and treated like children as in the old Rally Australia.

As for sand dunes, didn't see one close to the rally route at all.

[Rani]

As I said in the spectator thread, I'll be going back, the Jordanians are very friendly people, the food is great and shock, horror, you can even buy alcohol!

My only criticism was that it was so bleedin' hot, although it is not normally that hot at that time of the year, July yes, but not April.

Lack of spectators, imo opinion great, you can get really close to the cars, talk to the drivers and see lot's of action without being stuck in traffic jams like in Germany or walking for kilometres to get a good spot with no-one else around like a lot of other rallies, or being herded around like sheep and treated like children as in the old Rally Australia.

As for sand dunes, didn't see one close to the rally route at all.

Completely Agree

[AndyRAC]

Where did you get that information from? The roads existed before and the Jordanians graded them and packed the surface before the rally, is this not done elsewhere in the world?

The Jordanian Government put a lot into this rally and to be quite honest it is good to see a pro motorsport government involved, unlike most of the governments where traditional rallies are run. Most of the spectators were local but there were also quite a few from Lebabnon, Syria, Saudi and the other Gulf states.

Why not disagreeing with you - it could be argued that why should Governments get involved with a 'rich' sport? That is something always brought up every time the British GP is threatened. I certainly can't imagine our Government getting involved with Rallying, although I know the Welsh Assembly are involved with Rally GB.

[KiwiRallyFan]

I went to Rally Jordan as well, and thought it was an excellent rally. The things I really liked were the compact size of it, the ease of access to the stages, the low crowd numbers, and the fact that everything was free including the prgramme/maps. It was great being able to drive straight up to a spectator point and be able to park within 100 metres of a corner five minutes before the first car was due. The one negative comment I have is the lack of a results service. I couldn't find any results anywhere (perhaps I didn't look hard enough). There was also reasonable coverage on local TV, but it was all in Arabic which I couldn't understand a word of.

If anyone is interested in looking at some photos from the event, I have a whole bunch here....

http://kiwirallyfan.smugmug.com/gall...93062749_yz7wT