CMR2 Rally Japan

[Juha]

Coca Cola team Ford's disastrous drive in Japan
A lack of time and budget forced belgian driver Juha to complete the rally with no recce at all. "It's impossible to set decent times. The only stage I know well is the shakedown and i'm guessing where to go on the other stages. At one stage I didn't even know if I had to run left or right! The notes are not detailed enough and are often late. We also ran a bad gearbox setting on day 1 which cost us a few seconds on each sage." This result might affect Fords programme for next year. The teammanager is considering to enter only the non-mirrored rallies next year.

[tannat]

Oz is difficult enough in non-mirrored arrangement. We had a leery moment at the beginning of stage 2, day 1 that made us rethink our pace. A 8/10ths-9/10ths rally for us, but our times are okay.

Along with the UK stages this one pays the highest dividends with extensive recce....



BRING ON IRELAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tannat

[jso1985]

Coca Cola team Ford's disastrous drive in Japan
A lack of time and budget forced belgian driver Juha to complete the rally with no recce at all. "It's impossible to set decent times. The only stage I know well is the shakedown and i'm guessing where to go on the other stages. At one stage I didn't even know if I had to run left or right! The notes are not detailed enough and are often late. We also ran a bad gearbox setting on day 1 which cost us a few seconds on each sage." This result might affect Fords programme for next year. The teammanager is considering to enter only the non-mirrored rallies next year.

I guess your lack of budget also forced you to send me an e-mail consisting of some weird codes but no timecard, isn't? :

Since it's obvious Juha completed the rally before the deadline, I will give him 24 hours to send me his timecard(thus giving other drivers a small chance to still run the rally, but I will publish teh results if I get the timecard while I'm still online), if having problems with e-mail you can always send it via PM

so far got timecards from:

Cyborg_hun
Exhausted
FocusChampion
Marcel Haenen
NOR
Ramore
Tannat
Will L

[jso1985]

Marcel Haenen does what he needed to do and wins yet again cutting the gap with Cyborg_hun to 5 points

1.- Marcel Haenen      Subaru Impreza    41:25,79
2.- Cyborg_hun          SEAT Cordoba      42:52,73
3.- Tannat                Ford Focus          43:42,31
4.- Jso1985              Subaru Impreza     44:02,33
5.- FocusChampion     Ford Focus(p)      44:05,69
6.- Ramore                Toyota Corolla      44:31,56
7.- NOR                    Skoda Fabia(p)      44:41,76
8.- Juha                   Ford Focus(p)        45:15,46
9.- Will L                  Subaru Impreza(p)  47:09,69
10.- Exhausted          Ford Focus            47:26,89

drivers standings
1.- Cyborg_hun       109 points
2.- Marcel Haenen   104
3.- Tannat              69
4.- Jso1985             66
5.- Ramore              49
6.- GrP                   46
7.- Exhausted          26
8.- Dravas76            15
9.- Rat                   15
10.- Juha                11
11.- NOR                11
12.- Luffield             6
13.- Sir Killalot         5
14.- FocusChampion  4
15.- 306 Cosworth    1
16.- Will L                1

Manufacturers standings
1.- Subaru    173 points
2.- SEAT       155
3.- Ford        98
4.- Toyota     53
5.- Skoda       47
6.- Suzuki       6

stage-by-stage results will be available as soon as possible

thanks for participating!

[tannat]

.- Tannat Ford Focus 43:42,31
4.- Jso1985 Subaru Impreza 44:02,33
5.- FocusChampion Ford Focus(p) 44:05,69

Good to see some really close midfield action... Cheers jso1985 and Focus Champion


Truly pleased with 3rd here (unless Juha submits in trumps). We nudged a few trees and fences, but the panel bangers put it right at the service park.

Looking forward to Ireland.....

TARMAC ! TARMAC! TARMAC! TARMAC! TARMAC!

[Will L]

well done Marcel!

Argh, knew I was going to do really bad. :S

Mirrored tracks are what I despise.

[Juha]

unless Juha submits in trumps

What do you mean with that?

[Will L]

it means he had 3rd unless you posted a better time

[Juha]

He must have been expecting me to mail better times then?

[Will L]

Yeah! And it was the deadline anyway :S