Rally New Zealand 2012

**SlowSon** · 21st Jun 12, 09:29

Stohl faster than Block and Araujo straight out of the box

and Al-Raji & local with Impreza faster than the protons

**Adler** · 21st Jun 12, 10:04

strange decission of starting order picks for me, Stohl for example said that he is quite happy that he has at least 3 cars ahead of him for sweeping the roads after the qualifying.....in his opinion even if it rains to be first car is an disadvantage on the very special slippery gravel roads of new zealand!

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But lets wait.....works teams are of course no fools at all

**Maui J.** · 21st Jun 12, 10:42

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention.
During Shakedown while the rally cars were on their free runs, the odd family wagon taking the kids to school would drive past at about 40 km/h. It happened at least 3 times.

Hard to say if the organisers allowed this to let the local farmers' wife to drop the kids off, or they, the locals, just thought f*#@ it and drove throw the tape on their driveways. On at least one occasion as Mum and kids drove past, steering at the spectators on their usually quiet rural road, you could hear a WRC car in full throttle not far away.

Scary stuff, especially when Jari Matti's average speed was 120 km/h.
Interested to see what other's at shakedown thought.

**Adler** · 21st Jun 12, 10:47

The starting order for Stage 1

First Mikko Hirvonen
Second Petter Solberg
Third Sebastien Loeb
4th Ott Tänak
5th Dani Sordo
6th Jari Ketomaa
7th Evgeny Novikov
8th Manfred Stohl
9th Ken Block
10th Armindo Araujo
11th Paulo Nobre
12th Thierry Neuville
13th Jari-Matti Latvala

**Hartusvuori** · 21st Jun 12, 11:04

Originally Posted by Maui J.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention.
During Shakedown while the rally cars were on their free runs, the odd family wagon taking the kids to school would drive past at about 40 km/h. It happened at least 3 times.

Hard to say if the organisers allowed this to let the local farmers' wife to drop the kids off, or they, the locals, just thought f*#@ it and drove throw the tape on their driveways. On at least one occasion as Mum and kids drove past, steering at the spectators on their usually quiet rural road, you could hear a WRC car in full throttle not far away.

Scary stuff, especially when Jari Matti's average speed was 120 km/h.
Interested to see what other's at shakedown thought.

If there must be an escort during a motorsport event, there should be officials car there, hence called an escort, and to make sure the road is clear when competitors start. If not, scary stuff. And I think there shouldn't really be any such interuptions to a World Rally Championship events. For smaller, local or national, I understand it, but never like it.

**MR666** · 21st Jun 12, 11:39

10 hours of live rally NZ day 2 and 3 on NZ Sky Tv... can't wait for the weekend.

**MR666** · 21st Jun 12, 11:45

Originally Posted by AndyRAC

How on earth can they think of dropping this round......The Best roads in the Championship!

Latvala wins Rally NZ qualifier - 3 Sport - Video - 3 News

**Juha_Koo** · 21st Jun 12, 12:11

MTV3 reporting Louise Cook's ambitious three-year plan to become...nothing less than a world champion.

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**Adler** · 21st Jun 12, 12:25

Originally Posted by Juha_Koo

MTV3 reporting Louise Cook's ambitious three-year plan to become...nothing less than a world champion.

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sometimes in the google translation there is more truth then in the original press release

: for sure she wants a world champion.....I want a supermodel!

**Barreis** · 21st Jun 12, 12:30

Just like in motorsport, bring the money and you can have it.

**Tom206wrc** · 21st Jun 12, 15:25

Originally Posted by Juha_Koo

MTV3 reporting Louise Cook's ambitious three-year plan to become...nothing less than a world champion.

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I wish her to succeed where a certain Matt Wilslow failed

**MJW** · 21st Jun 12, 15:37

Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

I wish her to succeed where a certain Matt Wilslow failed

She wont finish a rally with a time within the same hour as Matthew. He pace is glacial.

**tolis** · 21st Jun 12, 15:41

Nobre's tribute to Gareth Roberts

It's funny to see Nicola Arena in both entry lists of Ypres and New Zealand. In the end, Arena will start in a Historic Rally in Italy!

**Gherid_lacksGPS** · 21st Jun 12, 18:41

Is there a stream of sky nz, or a channel on sopcast that anyone may know about?

**andyone** · 21st Jun 12, 19:56

im soo nervous... i hope Latvala doesn't get an issue on this one..

rp · 21st Jun 12, 20:49

Yes! Nokia´s WRC Live app is still working...

**dimviii** · 21st Jun 12, 20:50

Site officiel de Sébastien Loeb - Nouvelle Zelande 2012

On the special qualification, I do the fourth time behind Latvala, Hirvonen and Solberg. Jari-Matti has chosen the first starting position and he chose from the last WRC or 13th. For my part, I preferred to lock onto those closest to me in the championship, so I'm going on the third position behind Mikko and Petter who chose to go ahead.