[ERC] Rally Liep?ja 2014 (31.1.-1.2. 2014)

[stefanvv]

Griebel:

[garais22]

Great VIDEO review of the qualifying stage and Rally Liepaja opening + leading drivers comments http://www.tv3play.lv/play/353639?autostart=true

[Mirek]

Thanks! Gryazhin saying he has top speed only 164 km/h. The more great his performance is!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

“I have never seen anything like that,” said Breen, who was third quickest on the stage and holds the final podium spot in the overall standings, 3.3s down on second-placed Lappi and 26.3s behind Gryazin. “You get into a rhythm and then the car throws you off. It is such deep snow, it is really difficult.”

Sounds like the snow came after all..

[garais22]

First PHOTO GALLERY from Rally Liep?ja today`s stages http://www.go4speed.lv/lv/photo/erc/702 ... a-1-diena/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Sounds a bit ominous for Gryazin...

"Sometimes we don’t have 5th gear & now on road section coming to service 2nd gear has a strange sound.. ”

[LVrainman]

The thing is that , even tho we had a great snowfall/storm this night, usually in Liepaja itself there allways is much less snow than ~30-50 km inland. That's becouse the town lies by the sea but ~30-50 km deeper inland the land level rises ~100m above sea level, so that's where usually the "deep" snow comes.

[Mihai]

Breen - “It is such deep snow, it is really difficult.”

Indeed! Lappi tweeting a pic with the of road surface on SS3 :
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfYorCUIQAAlqar.jpg

[Mirek]

Gryazhin takes another 10 seconds from Lappi!

[WUff1]

Bouffier was no normal technical failure, but impact which damaged his radiator - so probably no other rally "sponsored" by ph sport.

EDIT: And Breen seems to have lost his confidence somewhere in 2013 ...