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15th November 2012, 04:00 #21
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15th November 2012, 04:36 #22
I'm still surprised people don't know how to torrent or download the days reviews online! It's even put on YouTube with each days highlights! Not that hard.
Julian and Colin don't read a script! It's all done once and recorded once! Pain in the butt but Paul Kings is scripted and he has all day to write it up!GG: "I'm stinky! I needa good shower and nice bowl of pasta!"
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15th November 2012, 07:36 #23
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I'm in the US so YouTube really has been a saving grace and allowed me to watch the past two years start to finish -- with mostly good quality. I downloaded before I found out they were on YT though.
Paul King is my guy; although it seems I get a lot of Julian and Colin during my viewings.
Three other things:
1. Good job Craig Breen!
2. Glad Denis Giraudet is recovering well and can get back to work soon -- although Novikov and Ilka were a pretty good pair and might stay that way.
3. I still don't know who I want at Citroen between Mads and Dani... and neither do they apparently! lol
Mads was really on it most of 2012 but it seemed like Sordo was fighting his car the entire season as well. The car doesn't make the driver, but it sure helps.
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15th November 2012, 07:54 #24
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^If you or anyone else wants to know where to torrent the rallies, there are places available... They can't be mentioned in threads, but PMs would be ok.
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15th November 2012, 09:07 #25
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Power stage points this year
Loeb 19 extra points this year.
Solberg 15
Latvala 14
Hirvonen 13
I think the power stage is a good thing and this year it was decisive on who got the "bronce medal" between Latvala and Østberg.
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15th November 2012, 10:31 #26
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The power stage would be a good thing if they are all proper stages, like in Finland or Portugal (if I recall correctly). 3 extra points for a 4km stage like Circus Maximus is just a joke...
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15th November 2012, 11:51 #27
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15th November 2012, 17:30 #28
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Ok my random thoughts on 2012...
Good
Sebastien Loeb. Gave all the other drivers a glimmer of hope with mistakes in Sweden and Portugal before smashing them into the weeds for the rest of the year. Stunning!
Mads Ostberg. Matured a lot this year and put in many performances worthy of a top drive. To finish 4th with only a few days testing and over 2 less events is a brilliant perfomance!
Sebastien Ogier: Drove the bollocks off of that S2000 Skoda and his fastest stage time is pretty legendary.
First trip to the Acropolis: Such a stunning event where myself, Mrjan and J4amie got to see so many stages and some epic driving. On the second running of Thiva was where I took my favourite shot of the year...
WRC Greece The Acropolis - Day 1 by Alastair Cummins, on Flickr
Nasser Al-ttiyah. His stage times are slow, but the man is just so spectacular to watch!
Novikov, driving on in the McRae spirit, with the car in many pieces
Redbull Media House coming in as promotors. If they can get downhill mountain biking through a hay field into the public domain then there is hope for the WRC yet.
Bad
The complete farce with the promotor and TV issues, plus the way the FIA treat the fans like ****, not giving them any clue as to what is going on.
While I appreciate Motors TV sticking by the championship, some of the coverage was beyond amateurish at times. Blatent mistakes by the commentators, sound of of sync and the picture nearly being B&W over the last couple rounds isnt good enough and I would be ashamed to put my name to it.
Ford constantly throwing it away and making it even easier for Citreon. The drivers had far too many crashes, and the tactics have been baffling at times!
The whole Mini farce. Just a complete mess which is so sad as the car obviously has so much potential after being developed on little money.
Yet still after all of the above I still love the WRC and cant wait for 2013 and the start of a new era...I hopeMy motorsport pics here on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/allyc85/sets/
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17th November 2012, 01:33 #29
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This season was the first that I've watched properly since 2005 or so. Well, a lot has changed in these years!
Solberg was at the peak of his career then, and even after all these years I still had some lingering loyalty for him as a born and bred Subaru fan. I was saddened to see that he's obviously not at his best anymore. I always preferred his aggressive approach over Loeb's, but his driving was riddled with errors. "To finish first, first you have to finish" indeed.
But I did enjoy this year's rallies, and I'm looking forward to next year (and beyond). Now that Loeb is not going to be there to set the standard, I wonder who is going to step up.a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker
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17th November 2012, 03:01 #30
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If by some miracle the Polo is a great car from beginning to end, next year could be huge for VW. They have the talent to potentially win every round! (in a perfect VW universe, haha)
I admire your will Mirek to argue with the windmills here.
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