Azores Airlines Rallye [ERC, PRT, ERCJ]

[stefanvv]

And to those who speak russian or a similar language, what the hell happened at 7:40 ???

The car is too slow for his taste, that is.

[Luis Pacheco]

Alexandre Ramos, Carlos Martins, Gil Antunes, Joao Correia, Luís Mota, Paulo Babo, Ricardo Teodósio and Diogo Salvi completely destroyed first part of stage...

Race director said on TV that the first part of the stage will be done again next year.

Now I would love to see the onboard from "Graminhais 2" !

[stefanvv]

Full onboard of Lukyanuk at Sete Cidades. Amazing pace!
https://youtu.be/667by1wk1Ds

Such onboards make me wonder why we loose our time with wrc?!?

[N.O.T]

Such onboards make me wonder why we loose our time with wrc?!?

nobody forces you to do so.

[Mirek]

Race director said on TV that the first part of the stage will be done again next year.

Now I would love to see the onboard from "Graminhais 2" !

The stage is gret however the first part is useless. I find hard to understand why it is used at all.

[stefanvv]

nobody forces you to do so.

True, and I don't feel obligated to. Just wondering for the whole bunch of fans. That it is devaluated I already know long ago.

[PLuto]

Race director said on TV that the first part of the stage will be done again next year.

I hope for it. And I am trying to do maximum for it

[Luis Pacheco]

The stage is gret however the first part is useless. I find hard to understand why it is used at all.

This section (but in reverse) was first implemented in the route of the rally in the late 80´s and at the time the drivers from the mainland threatened not to compete if the special was not canceled. In the end all of them did the stage but some years ago the race director of that time confessed that he did not sleep and only rested when the last competitor has reached the end of the stage. We can see him at 10m10s in the stage :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaxxuJQCC9w

[RS]

Full onboard of Lukyanuk at Sete Cidades. Amazing pace!
https://youtu.be/667by1wk1Ds

A slight off-road at 16:39

And to those who speak russian or a similar language, what the hell happened at 7:40 ???

I think the word for that stage, and especially with that driver is "relentless"

Great stuff!

[RS]

Such onboards make me wonder why we loose our time with wrc?!?

Certainly when I've seen official footage from WRC2 recently it looks a bit slow. I'm not for one moment saying those drivers are slower, but I think maybe because the rallies are so long and people tend to hit problems and the gaps become so big they just end up cruising a lot of the time.

Either that or the WRC TV people deliberately choose footage which makes the WRC2 cars look very slow compared to the WRCs.