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    I am able to conclude my rally, finally!

    It was superb rally! We started early in the morning from Tallinn to reach to the shakedown stage. I tried new approach road to the old house corner and I found out that it was the easiest access road there (less than 1 km walking in the nice forrest track). There was a huge difference between different drivers and it was clearly visible that four drivers were above the rest: Tänak, Kangur, Kõrge and Lukjanuk. Kangur was taking some unbelivable risks and we were thinking that sooner or later it is not going to end well. It went like expected. Lappi in the shakedown was very dissapointing while Wiegand was driving very well. Eli Evans was very impressive! We also witnessed when one Russian young driver crashed into the house.He was driving quite well.. he just got too much sideways corrected too much to the right and hit the house with right front corner. It was pretty high-speed crash. Everyone OK.

    Beginning of next day was not too early. There were some threatening clouds but no rain reched to the stages as I was predicting. We spectated stage 2, 4 in the first prohibited area. This area is mostly very narrow and there are just a few spectating spots (the reason for prohibiting this area is mainly because of difficult access. So, we approcahed there via the forrest again. 500 meters was nice forrest track but last 500 meters was very difficult harvested forrest. When we reached there via the forrest then there was no problem and we were standing on a pretty high bank inside the corner just after a small jump and nearly 90 dgrees left. Second pass was extremely fast and many drivers were pretty surprised by their sideways jumps. Chardonnet was off road there and just a few centimeters from a big tree. It was very lucky escape for him. We also met „sindroms“ there. I hope his head is OK now? There was a little stone that flew from Kees Burger car and hit his head (some ketchup for cheesburger :-P)

    Then we moved to the stage nr 5 and 7. We missed couple of first cars but we were expecting it. We were watching very fast place with small jumps and with one very tricky jump. Fiesta R2-s were flying funnily there (rear end wanted to pass the front). No big moments there, just some very high speed action (one boy with speedgun measured Lukjanuk´s speed there, it was 176 km/h)

    We also reached to the city stage. There was a huge amount of spectators and we decided immediately to abandon our initial plans and we moved to my fraternity house garden. Rally was basically at our home. We had very nice time there and we saw two nice corners there. Tänak did some extremely precise driving there and he was using 100% of the road there (taking more road width from the pedestrians path). Tarabus was very nice here as well.

    Last morning was with very late start (we had a long party on previous night – so, it was good). I had really bad internet connection in the morning and I was predicting completly dry morning stages. Suddenly some thunderclouds jumped out from nowhere. But it was not a big problem. Big rain hit only last couple of kilometers on SS 10 and SS 11 was completely dry. We were on long right corner with some interesting chicane. A lot of fun was there and some very kind local people who were selling delicious, homemade pies etc. For next loop I told that there should be taken a safe choice of tyres, as there was a huge risk of rain and 1/3 of the frist stage was still a bit damp. However, it was raining all around the stages and no rain reached to these stages. So, Ott was on wrong tyres but stil won both runs.

    For the last stage we moved to the penultimate stage (opposide side of the road to Teemu/Rallirini.net - discovered from the video). There was some thunder and threatening clouds but my last words to the service were that it will be mostly dry and maybe some humidity at the end of next stage. So, I was correct this time. Jeets had a huge crash just a few km from us ( I was spectating on that corner in 2009, extremely spectacular corner after the jump but no space for many spectators). It was a huge crash and lucky that they are probably both home from hospital by now (with some broken bones – legs, hand and ribs).

    My final conslusions:
    Tänak, Kõrge, Aus, Lukjanuk were all driving very well. Kõrge was a bit rusty in places and Aus had some very nice driving lines, very different to most of the drivers.
    Lappi – extremely bad driving. No commitment, no trust on blind corners and crests not worthy drive for ERC leader.
    Eli Evans and Sander Pärn- really nice drive by both with 2wd
    Domzala was the biggest surprise behing the Ds3R3 wheel, beautiful drive.
    Chardonnet – often too wide, spectacular
    All Peugeots – it looked like they were trying hard, but seems that 208T16 is not yet a car for fast gravel stages. A lot of developement is still needed here.
    Rally Estonia – 10 points from 10. only good memories for me.

    Here are some nice video including Chardonnet OFF and Kochmar off:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_U_...ature=youtu.be

    another nice video with the same offs+ some spectacular driving, some more offs and forrest that was cut down by the truck:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUPR...ature=youtu.be
    Last edited by bluuford; 26th July 2014 at 01:37.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mousti View Post
    Onboard of Lukyanuk on Stage 5 of Rally Estonia, let's hope more follows!!!

    https://www.facebook.com/TACrally/posts/668159009929910
    Just wow...

    Onboard also on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUU1UUDTgiM
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
    Just wow...

    Onboard also on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUU1UUDTgiM
    wow indeed, especially the jump at 2.04 ... just crazy commitment
    found a nice picture also : https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...10136414_n.jpg

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    It took me ages to get all these photos processed and now I gave up on making a dedicated gallery site. So I decided to upload the photos to Flickr.

    These photos are a bit unusual. All of them are shot on 35mm film using a camera that's more of a toy than a serious thing - Spinner 360.

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/131256...7649219458563/







    A small selection of "normal" photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/131256...7651530369472/
    Set a challenge for myself to use only the 50mm lens, so not many action shots.
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