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

[drive]

Kvaraciejus tyre after ss5 - starting after 50 or so cars its not much fun for stages run twice, loose gravel like in summer...

[mm1]

My impresdions - very bad draving by most, can't understand, why would you want to spend at least 50k€ for a top spec car and then drive so slow.
Lappi, Grjazin, Vorobjovs, Svilis, Wiegand were nice to watch, all the others, sorry, no fun at all...

What about Breen and Kajetanowicz? They were mostly ahead of Wiegand.

Yes, we can ad both of them, but not full commitment in all places I saw them.
I don't mind that they are spending their own money, just would love to see a higher level of competition.
You see the gaps, don't you?

[stefanvv]

My impresdions - very bad draving by most, can't understand, why would you want to spend at least 50k€ for a top spec car and then drive so slow.
Lappi, Grjazin, Vorobjovs, Svilis, Wiegand were nice to watch, all the others, sorry, no fun at all...

What about Breen and Kajetanowicz? They were mostly ahead of Wiegand.

fun to watch and fast are different things...

Sure, Lappi obviously can do both

[COD]

That was incredibly unlucky for Bouffier, barely any visible damage on the car and such a slow impact.

Agreed. But must be due to Citroen design. Maybe more designed to race than rally? Small impacts are part of rallying. Cars should be designed to withstand such impacts

[bluuford]

Remember.. last year Kubica took many Christmas trees from the Finish forests with the same car.. nothing hapened..

[RS]

That was incredibly unlucky for Bouffier, barely any visible damage on the car and such a slow impact.

Agreed. But must be due to Citroen design. Maybe more designed to race than rally? Small impacts are part of rallying. Cars should be designed to withstand such impacts

That's what I thought, but I couldn't believe Citroen would design a car which couldn't withstand that?

Which is why I thought it must be a freak accident.

[garais22]

No Bouffier on the start list on 2nd day of Rally Liep?ja
http://www.autorally.lv/files/r115/start-tc6f.pdf

[stefanvv]

No Bouffier on the start list on 2nd day of Rally Liep?ja
http://www.autorally.lv/files/r115/start-tc6f.pdf

Engine damaged severely

[stefanvv]

Remember.. last year Kubica took many Christmas trees from the Finish forests with the same car.. nothing hapened..

Yeah, but that was far from Christmas tree, still not so strong impact, must be unlucky accident

[HarriK]

When You have time can You give us some impressions from today?

We did 4 stages (1,2,3 and6) + one mid day service and last service of day.

Tamrasov: spectacular friendly lines, but of course not so fast ones
Wiegand: as said, struckled with snow
Orsak: nice looking drive
Lappi: struckled with snow a liitle bit at first loop. Looked like full attack mode on last stage.
Bouffier, was sure fast at first stage.
Kajetanowics: nothing special, smooth driving
Breen: too much sideways, almost hit a stump of a treee on ss3 end part.
Gryazin: fast!, pure driving lines.

Cerny and Immonen, both in their own class in ss2 end part 90degrees junction. Fast incoming speed and out.

I`m looking forward tomorrow starting stage!