[WRC] News & Rumours (part V) 2017

[GravelBen]

Where did you find these complaints? Looks like I've missed them somehow...

I think I heard a comment from Ogier saying the speeds were getting too fast, all of the other drivers seemed to think the speed was fine.

[er88]

Are there any rumours of new manufacturers coming to WRC in near future 18/19 season for example ? Its rather boring right now with 4 manufacturers...

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[Thousandlakes]

Kalle Rovanperä is leading rally vaakuna in Finnish championship by 12.6 sec after 2 ss! huge pace he has. Awesome talent for sure. Lets see if he is driving wales rally later this year. He is 17 years by then. Malcolm already called him

[ruesluporp]

I think I heard a comment from Ogier saying the speeds were getting too fast, all of the other drivers seemed to think the speed was fine.

If Ogier says the speed is getting too fast, eveybody listen. He was World Champion four times in a row. The others...not!

[janvanvurpa]

Of course not, but this kind of stages are not common. For most rallies the stages don't have big ups and downs in terms of speed, .

Really? What sort of stages do you run? Because ALL, every one i have done start at ZERO and then I gas it as hard and long as I can---rev limiter was set so top speed was 105mph or approx 170km/hr...and oddly enough in a 90 degree T junction on one lane road, speed is for the heroes about the same PEAK lowest around 25mph, or right about 40 km/hr (the difference to the real guys being how well they use their MUCH superior brakes approaching the corner, and how quickly and how hard they are on the gas exiting...but time and again when there is any speed display---even for Loeb or top WRC guys, watch and you'll see it dip to 40km/hr for an instant before bang they're gone)

So where have you been that there's stages that don't have big ups and downs in terms of speed?

[janvanvurpa]

Kalle Rovanperä is leading rally vaakuna in Finnish championship by 12.6 sec after 2 ss! huge pace he has. Awesome talent for sure. Lets see if he is driving wales rally later this year. He is 17 years by then. Malcolm already called him

Isn't genetics amazing?

[satukata]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9otiWfmXrQ

[jparker]

Really? What sort of stages do you run? Because ALL, every one i have done start at ZERO and then I gas it as hard and long as I can---rev limiter was set so top speed was 105mph or approx 170km/hr...and oddly enough in a 90 degree T junction on one lane road, speed is for the heroes about the same PEAK lowest around 25mph, or right about 40 km/hr (the difference to the real guys being how well they use their MUCH superior brakes approaching the corner, and how quickly and how hard they are on the gas exiting...but time and again when there is any speed display---even for Loeb or top WRC guys, watch and you'll see it dip to 40km/hr for an instant before bang they're gone)

So where have you been that there's stages that don't have big ups and downs in terms of speed?

I may be wrong, but if you are not providing any kind of analyses, you can't pretend to be right either.

[janvanvurpa]

I may be wrong, but if you are not providing any kind of analyses, you can't pretend to be right either.

Not presenting analysis? Analysis? Actually I was being extremely polite in showing how that statement you made and which I empasisied was flat wrong in my personal experience on Stages in USA (Mainly the PNW and The NE, and Michigan--also western Canada (Alberta) and Quebec..And from observining Club, Nationals and WRC events in France, England and Sweden...and talking with drivers and organizers...

And it was a question: what kind of stages have you done where you don't start at zero and go whatever the car will do//whatever you dare on the straights?

You MAY be right for the stages you've done, but I don't know who you are, where you've been to develop what sounds to me to be a crazy misunderstanding..

And, I didn't know there was a rule somewhere that says if a question one statement, I must offer an "analysis'' of what? What I'm questions..

Show me in the Constitution where it says I must provide analysis when asking somebody how they arrived at an anomalous opinion!

[jparker]

Not presenting analysis? Analysis? Actually I was being extremely polite in showing how that statement you made and which I empasisied was flat wrong in my personal experience on Stages in USA (Mainly the PNW and The NE, and Michigan--also western Canada (Alberta) and Quebec..And from observining Club, Nationals and WRC events in France, England and Sweden...and talking with drivers and organizers...

And it was a question: what kind of stages have you done where you don't start at zero and go whatever the car will do//whatever you dare on the straights?

You MAY be right for the stages you've done, but I don't know who you are, where you've been to develop what sounds to me to be a crazy misunderstanding..

And, I didn't know there was a rule somewhere that says if a question one statement, I must offer an "analysis'' of what? What I'm questions..

Show me in the Constitution where it says I must provide analysis when asking somebody how they arrived at an anomalous opinion!

I was flat wrong? Boy, you are real american pro. Good lack fining many 40km turns on a stages with avg speed above 120km.