Wrc Rallye France-Alsace 2012

[makinen_fan]

Did anyone counted how many times Novikov was off during this rally? 1. U-turn, 2. Jari-Matti corner, 3. Popcorn corner 4. roll corner.. any more? That shows how important is the safety (gravel) crew. at least three of those off could have been avoided I think.

The hairpin overshot:
Crash Novikov ES 14 WRC Rallye de France 2012 - YouTube
NOVIKOV sur ES14 Rallye de France 2012 : Chaud devant ! - YouTube

and a near off too:
Evgeny Novikov WRC France Alsace 2012 (HD) - YouTube

do we have video for the error in JML corner?

[GigiGalliNo1]

Perhaps he needs Denis back!

[bluuford]

do we have video for the error in JML corner?[/QUOTE]
The same video.. look until the end: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=424616717596273

[bluuford]

The place where he went into the corn could not really be predicted as slippery by the gravel crew, nobody really cutted there on recce, also just before first run it must have been clean. We drove the stage on thursday before, everyone who knows something about rally could see that the corner is made to cut, if you're for example 10th on the road you know that 9 guys should have cutted it already so it would become one big mess... I was there in 2nd run and 1/3 of the drivers went into the field. About the other places I can not disagree.

Well, just before the corner there was a lot of water. Rain started on the previous night already and more rain in the morning. It looked to me that he loosed the car on the standing water already. Such places are usually noted by safety crew.

[Mihai]

N.O.T is probably too busy protesting against the stupid Euro-countries giving aid and demanding budget cuts for Greece

Street fighting with police is now a full-time job in Greece. Just imagine how much it takes to make a good Molotov cocktail and you need them by the dozen when things hot up in a clash. I always thought N.O.T. is a tough lad and I wouldn't want to announce him a pay cut.

[rallyfiend]

Did anyone counted how many times Novikov was off during this rally? 1. U-turn, 2. Jari-Matti corner, 3. Popcorn corner 4. roll corner.. any more? That shows how important is the safety (gravel) crew. at least three of those off could have been avoided I think.

He had a gravel crew though. Clearly it was of no help.

[kirungi okwogera]

Hayden Paddon's off as viewed from the onboard camera is on his facebook page. Such a simple thing causes so much dissapointment for any other time one would expect to get away with it.

Yeah, really tragic. Hayden is not a tourist, he has worked very hard to put together a programme coming from a small country, and is very fast. But two mechanicals and an off and he's out of the running this year. He has been the fastest SWRC by far on the stages that his car has actually run - I'd guess 60-70% of them - and he hasn't had a single rally ending driver error in like three years until now. I hope somebody's watching the SWRC stage times this year in a search for a driver to sponsor (or hire for a team!).

[spiderem]

I don't know what you think, but mads impressed me this week end. I start to really like him. Challenging neuville which has more experience in tarmac, it's quite good. I guess having him a factory driver next year will be a big gamble, but i really hope we will see him again. also because he always says something funny or stupid at the end of stages... i think neuville is quite boring, sorry for his fans.

[mousti]

Offcourse not only Novikov had hot moments, JML has them too like always

Sortie Latvala - YouTube

[Plan9]

I think PG made it hard for himself to win SWRC. Drives too hard in the Proton but very spectacular.