Rally Estonia 2015

[sindroms]

It's time.
Entry list looks good so far - http://rallyestonia.com/competitors/erc/entry-list/
Restricted areas (stage maps in fact) - http://rallyestonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Rally-Estonia-ERC-2015-Maps-of-SS_Restricted-areas.pdf
Itinerary - http://rallyestonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/APPENDIX-1-Itinerary-RE2015.pdf

[bluuford]

60 netries so far. 14 R5 or S2000 cars, at least 4 Gr N cars that are able to compete for to 5. 14 ERC juniors +many locals. Current road condtitions are great! See U there!

[WUff1]

Lukyanuk at least with Evo X.

[sindroms]

Lukyanuk at least with Evo X.

Timu Korge on Peugeot 208 T16 R5 too.

[bluuford]

Latest addition is Martin Kangur together with Kulda Sikk. They are running with Fiesta R5 run by OT Racng. He was the most spectacular driver in 2014.. until he crashed.

[pucky54]

Lukyanuk at least with Evo X.

Source?

[pantealex]

Source?

I saw it at "Rally Estonia" twitterpage, WUff1 could have another source.

[CivEngine]

Latest addition is Martin Kangur together with Kulda Sikk. They are running with Fiesta R5 run by OT Racng. He was the most spectacular driver in 2014.. until he crashed.

Hope this time is gonna be pretty different... Can anyone answer me a question? Why Kangur has no driven any race so far this year? Budget problems maybe?

[sindroms]

I saw it at "Rally Estonia" twitterpage, WUff1 could have another source.

Lukyanuk's codriver confirmed it on russian rally forum.

[bluuford]

Alex is in the list now. The list is very, very, very, very, very, very competitive I must say. If I have to pick a winner... I do not know. I have to choose between: Breen, Kruuda, Lukyanuk, Kõrge, Katjo, Salo, Kangur and when everyuthing goes well, then also Pärn and Plangi, Aus and Kaur, Murakas might compete for the podium. that makes it 12 drivers for podium competition... holy crap, I have to buy my rallypass :-)

[PLuto]

Alex is in the list now. The list is very, very, very, very, very, very competitive I must say. If I have to pick a winner... I do not know. I have to choose between: Breen, Kruuda, Lukyanuk, Kõrge, Katjo, Salo, Kangur and when everyuthing goes well, then also Pärn and Plangi, Aus and Kaur, Murakas might compete for the podium. that makes it 12 drivers for podium competition... holy crap, I have to buy my rallypass :-)

Buy the rallypass. As you are ignoring Barum for many years, I must come again to Estonia as it is only one chance to see you personally ;)

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Looks like some online TV coverage ! :)

Delfi TV Live broadcasts of special stages:
Fr 17 July at 18:00-19:30 Opening and start podium from Tartu
Fr 17 July at 19:45-21:45 SSS1 auto24 Tartu city stage
Sa 18 July at 19:00-21:00 SS10 Sportland Elva city stage
Su 19 July at 9:30-15:00 SS13 Shell Helix / SS16 Delfi Alaküla 1 and 2 special stage and ramp
Su 19 July at 16:00-17:30 Award ceremony and finish podium from Tartu

[sindroms]

Entry list in seeded order - http://rallyestonia.com/competitors/erc/entry-list/

[mousti]

Luckily Kajto and Consani are starting here. Otherwise it would be quite weak..

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[Jarek Z]

Luckily Kajto and Consani are starting here. Otherwise it would be quite weak..

Really? I consider it a good entry list.
Can Juha Salo win it?

[RICARDO75]

Luckily Kajto and Consani are starting here. Otherwise it would be quite weak..

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Craig Breen; Kajetan Kajetanowicz; Karl Kruuda; Martin Kangur; Timmu Kõrge; Sander Pärn; Robert Consani; Juha Salo; Alexey Lukyanuk; Siim Plangi; Rainer Aus; Teemu Suninen...

[WUff1]

Because of strong local entries with modern cars I don´t find this list weak.

[sindroms]

Craig Breen; Kajetan Kajetanowicz; Karl Kruuda; Martin Kangur; Timmu Kõrge; Sander Pärn; Robert Consani; Juha Salo; Alexey Lukyanuk; Siim Plangi; Rainer Aus; Teemu Suninen...
... Egon Kaur.

[eib1]

Luckily Kajto and Consani are starting here. Otherwise it would be quite weak..

If at least one of them will be in top 5 at the end, i´ll be surprised

[RS]

If at least one of them will be in top 5 at the end, i´ll be surprised

Kajto I wouldn't be surprised, Consani I would.

[mousti]

With those fast stages you can offcourse reckon those Evo's with Plangi, Lukyanuk and Kaur also as favs's that makes it more interesting. So my reaction was a bit wrong, but expected more R5/S2000. Pity Suninen is not registered.

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[garais22]

Bad news :(
Heading to ''Võrumaa Rallisprint 2015'' (training before Estonian ERC) Vasily Gryazin have a big road accident. Speedy recovery, Vasily!!

http://www.go4speed.lv/data/news/clipboard01-4634_2.jpg

http://www.go4speed.lv/lv/news/rallijs/4774-autosportists-vasilijs-grjazins-cietis-smaga-autoavarija/

[Xsara Fan]

Bad news :(
Heading to ''Võrumaa Rallisprint 2015'' (training before Estonian ERC) Vasily Gryazin have a big road accident. Speedy recovery, Vasily!!

http://www.go4speed.lv/data/news/clipboard01-4634_2.jpg

http://www.go4speed.lv/lv/news/rallijs/4774-autosportists-vasilijs-grjazins-cietis-smaga-autoavarija/

I talk to Vasily`s father. The situation is very bad. Try to googletranslate it: http://ru.motorsport.com/erc/news/vasilij-gryazin-postradal-v-avarii

[WUff1]

It´s written he got very very bad multiple injuries of his right leg beside other serious injuries. But as it is written he´s obviously not in acute life danger

Last year his illness, and now this ...

[sindroms]

Egon Kaur is a guy to follow this weekend. He won Vorumaa rallisprint on Evo9 in very solid company, taking 4 stages wins out off 6 - http://autosport.ee/rallyreg/index.php?page=33&race_id=335&race_ss_id=655&

[mousti]

Onboard of Breen's PET today

[bluuford]

Some more videos from testing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHO5wVL5Nlc&feature=youtu.be

[EightGear]

Onboard of Breen's PET today
Onboards are at least 10 times more interesting from that angle.

[EstWRC]

Karl Kruuda ‏@KarlKruuda 7h7 hours ago
@RallyEstonia PET done! Very fast stages!(142 average on one stage)

[mousti]

Onboards are at least 10 times more interesting from that angle.

Posted too fast :D

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

[EightGear]

Posted too fast :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXdjNAammOs
Well I meant it lol. I saw it on his FB page and assumed you posted it. :D

[dimviii]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny6jTbM3Bv4

[bluuford]

am not too much specialist, but Peugeot still looks very unstable on fast roads and ruts.

Another testing video, featuring several drivers including Kangur, Ingram, Shaymiev, etc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikp7-WDmbPM&feature=youtu.be

[bluuford]

I have been postboponing my weather predictions for the rally and it is still very tricky to say. One is for sure, weather will be very changeable.
Here it comes:

On Friday morning we should expect a bit clody weather mostly without rain in the morning. Temperatrure is quite low, it starts with +15..+16 when Historics shakedown starts and it should reach to 16-18 degrees by noon when Free Practice and QS takes place. If everything goes as it is expected at the moment, then there will be moderate rainfall during QS, starting just after twelve, so, I expect early runners to make much better time there. There are several places where ruts are forming quite easily. With some rain, these are very likely to form.
Weather improves as the day continues it should be nice and mostly sunny in Tartu city stage. Teperature around +15..+17. I will be on the fences of one house in Veski street :-)

Saturday:
the night is relatively cold, maybe +10..+12 degrees only, take a warm sleeping bag into your tent!
I belive there will be a bit similar scenario to Friday, but mostly cloudy. I expect overcast for the morning and some rain in the afternoon, but much later this time and not much, just a little. It should happen after 3-4 PM. Temperature is very similar to previous day. It should stay around +17..+18 during most of the day. Light rain is also expected during the Elva city stage.

Sunday:
This time we expect a bit rainy weather in the morning and much better afternoon. We should see dry weather and more sun. But is still too far to say.

We expect such kind of weather that can be perfectly predicted only a few hours in advance. So, who makes the forecast correct will win the rally :-)

You can find me from the rally with black Bulgarian T-Shirt or green T-Shirt with HANNES written with block letters on my back. My 9-year old kid will be with me and probably one friend. In Shakedown I will be just before old house junction, on the field :-)

See U soon

[dimviii]

Kajto testing ,watch at 1,23
https://youtu.be/vUXGEahqlPw

[sindroms]

GPS tracking will be available here - http://gps.autorally.lv/

[Mirek]

Kajto testing ,watch at 1,23
https://youtu.be/vUXGEahqlPw

He said he did the whole testing stage on fifth gear :D

[Fast Eddie WRC]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKC_5VwUcAAyyd1.png:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKD8pBGUwAEFZpu.png:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKC1iggWoAMmH3k.jpg:large

[bluuford]

Many shots from Service by Timo Anis: http://sport.postimees.ee/3263647/galerii-viimased-ettevalmistused-rally-estoniaks/4284227

[svstock]

QS LIVE!
rally radio: http://www.fiaerc.com/rally-radio/
live timing: http://www.fiaerc.com/live-timing/
Local time live stages on delfi.ee http://sport.delfi.ee/news/auto/rallyestonia/otseblogi-ole-kursis-koigega-mis-toimub-rally-estonial?id=71932711

17.07.2015
18:00
auto24 Rally Estonia: Avamine ja stardipoodium (opening)

19:55
auto24 Rally Estonia: Tartu linnakatse (Tartu city stage)

18.07.2015
19:00
auto24 Rally Estonia: Elva linnakatse (Elva city stage)

19.07.2015
09:30
auto24 Rally Estonia: Alaküla katse ja trampliin (Stage Alaküla with jump)

16:00
auto24 Rally Estonia: Autasustamine ja finišipoodium (Podium)

http://sport.delfi.ee/news/auto/rallyestonia/otseblogi-ole-kursis-koigega-mis-toimub-rally-estonial?id=71932711

On-boards of Sander Pärn, Raul Jeets ja Kenneth Sepp and 3 service cameras live on Delfi Rally Estonia special page:
http://sport.delfi.ee/news/auto/rallyestonia/

[sindroms]

GPS tracking will be available here - http://gps.autorally.lv/

Online results on this site also.

[EstWRC]

Kõrge nearly off and Pärn off on stage QS stage, stage stopped at the moment.

[svstock]

Sander Pärn off on qualifying stage and Timmu Kõrge almost off and broken tyre.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Parn hit a tree... sounds a heavy crash. :(

[svstock]

QS stage times:
http://rallyestonia.com/results/erc-qs/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Will be good to see Lukyanuk again !

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKG66c3W8AAkr25.jpg:large

Interview vid: http://sport.delfi.ee/news/auto/rallyestonia/delfi-video-aleksei-lukjanuk-mina-ja-fsb-soiduinstruktor-ei-ei-mitte-midagi-sellist?id=71934097

[sindroms]

Parn hit a tree... sounds a heavy crash. :(

Must be that spot:
https://www.google.lv/maps/@58.09294,26.511246,3a,50.1y,351.6h,91.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sthX5_En19IkBHb-DCzePtw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=lv

[svstock]

by Reikoh rallifoorum.ee
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/p843x403/11540924_919140908124154_4952413464119608032_n.jpg ?oh=2eff404726ac99e5b8abfcde96783f0c&oe=562342DF
Sander Pärn - James Morgan
QS stage.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKHBnXXUcAAB-7q.jpg:large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKHEkkjWoAE18H2.jpg:large

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Lukyanuk beats Breen on the QS !

[svstock]

NO superrally for Pärn-Morgan. damaged roll-cage, FIA made decision.
source: uhtikas/rallifoorum.ee

Live cameras:
http://sport.delfi.ee/news/auto/rallyotsepilt/
(today opening and tartu city stage, on-board Raul Jeets, Kenneth Sepp and 3 service cameras)

[Mirek]

According to PLuto Pushkar, Kochmar and one more didn't pass scrutineering :(

[dimviii]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKHgXZ8WUAEwQkk.jpg

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Parn crash :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AWrGjgVCCM&feature=youtu.be

[cali]

Very odd accident, looks like something happened to the car.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Very odd accident, looks like something happened to the car.

Parn: 'Very sad that Rally Estonia ended for me like this. Made worse that it wasn't in my control...'

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Nice of Lukyanuk to let Breen go after him on the road :)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKICgrsWUAALaHE.jpg:large

[Rallyper]

Very odd accident, looks like something happened to the car.

Could be ruts putting the car very fast in wrong direction and the speed made him brake instead of step on it.

[RS]

Parn crash :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AWrGjgVCCM&feature=youtu.be

Quite horrible actually.

Glad the crew are ok.

I have now seen as much coverage of Rally Estonia as an entire WRC2 leg report.

[bluuford]

I was 150 meters before crash.. it seemed to me and to Eurosport cameramen that he was a bit too fast. He was much fatser than others in this place. By the way, Lukyanuk hit the tree on the next corner, just after Pärn crash..

And Salo is crazy, I and one one marshal tried to slow him down.. we were standing almost in the middle of the road... no reaction.. luckily everything went well and next spectators were more radical... standing in the midle of the road:-)

Kõrge was also near to big crash, two corners before me. He hit the bank, and went into the field, spectators were far enough to run away, So, I was shown one chair with Timmus tyre marks on it. Very eventful shakedown. very spectacular

[dimviii]

Luky won ss1

[RS]

Luky won ss1

Thus far he is more impressive in his Mitsu than he was in the Fiesta R5.

[sindroms]

Some cash for organizers - http://rallyestonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/RE2015_CoC-Dec-No1_17072015.doc.pdf

[yee]

Thus far he is more impressive in his Mitsu than he was in the Fiesta R5.Salo also doing better work with mitsubishi...

[bluuford]

city stage is nice, road is cold and some puddles were filled with water inside some corners that made the track slower for first cars. Tarcmac is mostly dry.

[yee]

Salo also doing better work with mitsubishi...

Both Lucy and Salo are taxi drivers:)

[Rallyper]

Both Lucy and Salo are taxi drivers:)

Are you N.O.T. ´s cousin?

[yee]

Are you N.O.T. ´s cousin?

:)no,I mean both guys doing better job mitsu's than r5 cars..

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Poor SS1 by Breen... time loss could cost him if the battle is close... :(

[Martins Tolks]

anyone had working live stream today?
tried those delfi tv links but no stream, just waiting circle

[Fast Eddie WRC]

anyone had working live stream today?
tried those delfi tv links but no stream, just waiting circle

No, only the 2 service park cameras.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Luky... ;) https://youtu.be/3lQk0MOsEQE

[yee]

Luky... ;) https://youtu.be/3lQk0MOsEQE

I hope Luky win the rally estonia,(group N-car,) and good luck the rally finland with wrc-car

[dimviii]

http://www.rallye-magazin.de/typo3temp/yag-galleries/31/50/Rallye_Estland_2015_NM_005_315034_55a8adf5b.jpg

[dimviii]

useless photos from official site
http://www.fiaerc.com/2015/auto24-rally-estonia/?tax=photos

[dimviii]

Salo 1sec/km slower from Kangur with n4...

[Kalm]

Salo 1sec/km slower from Kangur with n4...

Kaur with N4 you mean ? :) Salo is 1,6 sek slower than Kangur, and Kangur is in R5 :)

[dimviii]

Kaur with N4 you mean ? :) Salo is 1,6 sek slower than Kangur, and Kangur is in R5 :)

yeap ,my bad.

Kajto and Breen with 5th and 7th times at ss1!

[yee]

Kaur with N4 you mean ? :) Salo is 1,6 sek slower than Kangur, and Kangur is in R5 :)

Quite fast stage,Salo was so slow,5 mitsus beat him..

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Looks like the locals may have the advantage here with Kangur & Kruuda, plus 7 Estonians in the Top 10.

Lukyanuk also going well again in the Evo X.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Consani stopped.. engine failure. :(

[Lord_Shaitan]

Will we hit an average of 140kmp/h ?? Wow, what a fast stage!

[Mirek]

With a gr.N car... that's a little bit too much in my opinion.

[COD]

What happened to Suninen?

[Mirek]

Nothing, he is 10th after SS3. He is running late as he is not registered in ERC.

[dimviii]

With a gr.N car... that's a little bit too much in my opinion.

at 2nd loop maybe we see 140km/h average.
139,23 average for ss3

[Fast Eddie WRC]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKLyg2VUYAAJLc0.jpg

[Ounin]

Looks like the locals may have the advantage here with Kangur & Kruuda, plus 7 Estonians in the Top 10.

Lukyanuk also going well again in the Evo X.

Lukyanuk is getting my hero more & more

[svstock]

LIVE! SS4
http://sport.delfi.ee/news/auto/rallyotsepilt/

Elva city stage live at 19:12 local time hope this time stream is working well...

[dimviii]

inside 0,6 sec first 3 crews.

[dimviii]

first crews much faster than 1st pass of ss Urvaste.Maybe a lot more than 140km/h average http://www.petrolheads.gr/images/smilies/smooth/omg.gif


auto24 Rally Estonia ‏@RallyEstonia Valgjärve, Põlvamaa
SS 7 is shortened to 20 km due the security reason @FIAERC @EestiAutosport #rallyestonia

[svstock]

SS5 Jeets LIVE on-board, quality based on mobile signal.
http://sport.delfi.ee/news/auto/rallyotsepilt/
(second camera, Pardakaamera: Raul Jeets)

Kenneth Sepp LIVE on-board
(third camera, Pardakaamera: Kenneth Sepp)

[svstock]

SS8 is same as 7 and it will be run as full 34 km.

SS7 will be shortened by half but SS8 will still be run in its full length #FIAERC

SS7 ends at Kooli-Valgevärve junction. SS8 will be run full lenght.

[raybak]

140kmh average reached.

[svstock]

Kenneth Sepp stopped.
Live stream SS5 looks like retirement.
http://sport.delfi.ee/news/auto/rallyotsepilt/ camera 3
gps tracking info system says now engine.

[stefanvv]

Lukyanuk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lsY7h6P0hc

[Kalm]

Arshanskiy-Soskin on SS3
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1610975_877656465643067_2419047870676321628_n.jpg? oh=dfa0186c8feb6bd218507582b2b52744&oe=560EFC30

[dimviii]

Kangur stopped at stage

[Mirek]

Salo and Kasperczyk reported off road.

[dimviii]

Salo continues,Plangi spin with high speed,Breen puncture.

[mousti]

(2 - Kajetanowicz Kajetan / Baran Jarosław): Everyone who wants to win this rally must be crazy. But that's rally, that's why we are here! :D

[Mirek]

Suninen also some troubles.

[Kalm]

Suninen also some troubles.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKM0ruGVAAA2li2.jpg

[Mirek]

Don't know if it was posted already...

Lukyanuk and the tree on shakedown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lQk0MOsEQE
Big moment of Körge from shakedown at 0:25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8jSaOw33LM

[AP-Racing]

Tushkanova retire after rolling

[Kalm]

Toni Gardemeister@TGardemeister
Veiby off ss7
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKMzoQCUsAAyqUT.jpg

Seems like a big one...

[Allyc85]

When was the last time an Evo lead a WRC or IRC/ERC event?!

[EstWRC]

Lukyanuk 10 sec penalty for jump start, drops to third with Kajito leading and Kruuda second 1.6 sec. Pathetic performance from our guys so far.

[AP-Racing]

When was the last time an Evo lead a WRC or IRC/ERC event?!

Croatia 2013 - Aigner and Gassner did a great battle in 1st day

[EstWRC]

http://lb.delfi.ee/attachment.php?eid=490583&id=491010&aid=491011&w=520

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Lukyanuk 10 sec penalty for jump start, drops to third with Kajito leading and Kruuda second 1.6 sec.

This confirmed ? Not seeing this on the results ?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKM_bT5UcAA-K1m.jpg:large

[EstWRC]

This confirmed ? Not seeing this on the results ?

Unofficial so far, all stages delayed 15 minutes.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Luky grass cutting !

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKMsqkhWEAAq-K2.jpg:large

[AP-Racing]

Rain

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Unofficial so far, all stages delayed 15 minutes.

I see the 10s penalty now. Shame when the battle is so close. :(

[skarderud]

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/18/4a3bcecabf159dda02b2dfec218b3785.jpg

Veiby big crash.

[dimviii]

I see the 10s penalty now. Shame when the battle is so close. :(

will Luky manage to cut these 5 sec?

[EstWRC]

Kruuda stopped

[dimviii]

Martin Kangur @MartinKangur
This fight is not over yet! I guess we will see you tomorrow! #flatout @RallyEstonia @FIAERC

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKNHEQkW8AAZG-N.jpg

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Luky wins stage 8 and is now level on time with Kajto !! :D

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Kruuda reported stopped with broken radiator on SS8 !

[dimviii]

Luky this guy is unbelievable what he can do with an evo X.Managed to take back all these 5,6 sec at a single stage.
Imho must be the fastest guy at gravel with such car.
Big respect Luky!

[EstWRC]

Will be very interesting to watch him in Finland with a Fiesta WRC!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Timing now showing Luky 0.1s ahead ! :)

[Ounin]

Will be very interesting to watch him in Finland with a Fiesta WRC!

Oooooh yes you bet !!!!

[dimviii]

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

[dimviii]

https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11743017_919638478074397_3000520917901197262_n.jpg ?oh=8a20259cf0f35886e1c39e3cd04d986a&oe=561C9BD6
https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/11695883_1026112190733572_1886562332669614146_n.jp g?oh=89fd2a2035552f4d62e8122299c1a25b&oe=561D244E

[svstock]

SS10 Elva city stage live!
http://sport.delfi.ee/news/auto/rallyotsepilt/ stream 1

[dimviii]

Luky with 2,4 ahead of Kajto,even with 10 sec penalty.
cant wait to see onboards from the crazy Russian.

[dimviii]

15 - Lukyanuk Alexey / Arnautov Alexey): Power is here. The car is perfect, thanks to the team for an awesome car. We also try to match this level and push like hell. It is all the result of practice and analysis. May be it looks aggressive but on these kind of roads it works. We are really focused now, I am feeling much better than in the morning.

[Mirek]

Crash Tushkanova: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=5368e2ba-0000-279c-81d6-001a113da79a&feature=iv&src_vid=FgUIDKExAgE&v=Rs1vs4e8uZU

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Great return to the ERC so far by Lukyanuk !

He really shows that its all about the driver not the car...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKNrHdsWoAAuJu5.jpg:large

[stefanvv]

tricky corner at ss7, incl. Salo's mistake - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9CvMBprNWI

[Kalm]

Nasty crash for Björn Adolfsson/Mikael Johansson on SS8 (reason why stage was stopped) codriver complained pain in his back, so rescue desided to cut the cage to minimalize the change for further injures while gettin him out of the car : http://g1.nh.ee/images/pix/728x352/yyc7Y4-lg9c/a4d8355aa9bf458bc8-71943399.jpg

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Some nasty accidents today:

ARSHANSKIY
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKOK-gLUcAE4E9L.jpg

VIEBY
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKNpbzdVEAA3H6r.jpg:large

[Simmi]

Jeez. No small accidents on this rally it seems.

[bluuford]

Short conclusion for today. Leading pack was driving completely in different level: Lukyanuk, Aus, Kaur, Kruuda, Kangur, Katjo, Plangi. Breen, Kõrge and Murakas looked pretty average, Salo looked slow everywhere. I think that partly it is the same I noted before the rally.. 208T16 is not yet fast car on such fast roads, car looks very unstabe and nervous, seems that drivers are not able to push them to 100%.

well, Tushkanova crashed on very fast spot where those drivers who do not listen legend are making mistakes.. famous crash place.

Kruuda and Radiator, I have heard this story several times.. Beautiful rally until that moment.

Arshansky was among two drivers who "lifted" on our corner in SS5, he was the onlyone who crashed on that stage, just a few minutes later on SS3.

Suninen: He was driving fast but sometimes a bit too fast, it ended soon.

Veiby: Was driving very badly, making many corrections, entering too fast into the corner and then correcting it several times.

Kaijto: Nearly perfect lines, very, very good drive!

Lukyanuk: Very clean lines, no crazy driving, just very fast.

Rain arrived by the city stage as initialy expected. Rain is over now and tomorrow it should be dry. There was not much rain, no dust but no mud as well.

Helicopter: Perfect lines, some extreme driving ;-)
Need to go to sleep now, very tired, did 4 stages today, nearly all cars.
To sleep now:

[stefanvv]

Kajto's impressions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-eyUAlvmoc

[RS]

They said on the tv coverage that Breen was using the long gearbox and that they then struggle with acceleration.

I don't know how functional it really is but maybe the big rear wing on the Mitsubishi helps with stability vs the R5 cars too?

[tommeke_B]

I don't think the rear wing of an Evo X gives (much) more downforce than one of an R5 car. I think the stability will be different. Due to long wheelbase a group N car will be less nervous in these extremely fast turns, it probably gives more confidence. Also acceleration on high speed (like from 150kph to 180kph) is maybe better with Gr.N cars? > Someone who knows more about this can tell us more I think?

[tommeke_B]

Congratulations to Lukyanuk. When you see the onboards it's unbelievable he kept the car on the road, it's madness!

[Kalm]

from the last stage : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKRvNcmVEAAba_t.jpg

Mega drive, again !

E: video https://twitter.com/KristapsUsvils/status/622752017396707328

[dimviii]

congrats to Lukyanuk-Arnautov,excellent and faultless rally from first stage.
Congrats to Kajto too,for this pace for his first time at this rally,the only one can match the pace of the crazy Russian,and stay inside the road.
Second time when production car wins,after Kajto at Polland 2011 with impreza.
cant wait to see Luky onboards.

https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11752544_721988707927721_3831505388075963023_n.jpg ?oh=117c13fa916783b27812ebd04a762fff&oe=5613B649

[N.O.T]

the thing i like about Luky is that he doesn't crash even though he seems to be on the limit most of the times... of course the limit you push to beat the nobodies of ERC is different from the limit you need to push to be a challenger in the WRC... but still, lets hope Finland goes well for him and we have a nice addition to the WRC for the future.

[Mirek]

Last two corners of the rally for Lukyanuk on the video :D

https://twitter.com/KristapsUsvils/status/622752017396707328

[dimviii]

oil pressure again for psa r5 car
Breen from official erc site
“Towards the end of SS14, we started to lose oil pressure – something’s happened inside the engine and there is nothing we can do about it,” said Breen. “We could have driven on for a bit, but it would have destroyed itself.

[dimviii]

http://www.rallye-magazin.de/typo3temp/yag-galleries/31/95/Rallye_Estland_2015_NM_061_319526_55ab82553.jpg
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/typo3temp/yag-galleries/31/95/Rallye_Estland_2015_NM_060_319524_55ab82550.jpg
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/typo3temp/yag-galleries/31/95/Rallye_Estland_2015_NM_063_319538_55ab82559.jpg
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/typo3temp/yag-galleries/31/95/Rallye_Estland_2015_NM_065_319544_55ab82571.jpg

[dimviii]

http://www.rallye-magazin.de/typo3temp/yag-galleries/31/95/Rallye_Estland_2015_NM_066_319546_55ab82576.jpg
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/typo3temp/yag-galleries/31/95/Rallye_Estland_2015_NM_067_319558_55ab8257b.jpg
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/typo3temp/yag-galleries/31/95/Rallye_Estland_2015_NM_076_319564_55ab82588.jpg

[Kalm]

Timmu Kõrge
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11755677_10205632398423092_1376215775879459820_n.j pg?oh=3960dc206e90465d977ae8d82b925e4f&oe=5658ACAD

[Allyc85]

Wow the Peugeot 208 really is something, maybe next year they will sort out the reliability..

Great win for Lukyanuk, so good to see an Evo win again! :D

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Oh the forum is back now !

Another Peugeot fcuk-up for Breen, to follow Ingram yesterday. :( These guys have no chance of titles with these unreliable cars.

Massive congrats to Luky - what a driver ! And well done Kajto for his speed on his first time here.

[dimviii]

https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11743014_854297221316848_2813251677256703065_n.jpg ?oh=ed813f0200ad17298d48b7823d5fe26e&oe=565266D9
https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11743013_854297177983519_5462008946040846557_n.jpg ?oh=44e4d8b05cebeeaf7541cc897f52ed49&oe=561B4206
https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11752464_854297161316854_266413293287625075_n.jpg? oh=b21b3048fb6ddbc4d490397c11ea4f2f&oe=564D5DB9
https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11751404_854297147983522_8190490371507340140_n.jpg ?oh=33a46538972d09be1c72e2d39700dd2a&oe=5657A75B

[dimviii]

https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/22522_854296764650227_5216748595408167920_n.jpg?oh =1f791fc4a1a0cd4d8f909fafe465c2ac&oe=56101502
https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11760305_854296734650230_2901915030062790731_n.jpg ?oh=ab2e71d74a84e40a6b68433540569273&oe=561AAE1D
https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/11745728_854296644650239_4033738288419748314_n.jpg ?oh=1cc381f5a7368abbafea1306775ec87e&oe=564FFDC0
https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/18401_854296654650238_3441027611803303372_n.jpg?oh =79ccf4748b725a2e8ff1b6a08a9f2476&oe=5649D36C

[Arnold Triyudho Wardono]

Sadly, ERC Youtube channel didn't have full length onboard vids

[dimviii]

Korge moment with onboard too
https://youtu.be/PonWoK57Clo


Kajto koment after a jump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyE69jHeDEE

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Lu(c)ky was here ... but he deserved it ! :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/EddieFocus/Luky_zpsxq7gyvko.jpg

[dimviii]

Julian Porter ‏@The_Rally_Guru
Alexey Lukyanuk brilliantly won his first ERC rally today with driving that involved huge commitment & some big cuts!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKSmsYBVAAEV6oP.jpg

[mousti]

LUCKY Cameraman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGF_qGDpSK0

[MartijnS]

So funny, first he thinks; yes he missed the camera and than while reversing..oh shit :D

[dimviii]

lol
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKS431qWsAERowQ.jpg

[PLuto]

oil pressure again for psa r5 car
Breen from official erc site
“Towards the end of SS14, we started to lose oil pressure – something’s happened inside the engine and there is nothing we can do about it,” said Breen. “We could have driven on for a bit, but it would have destroyed itself.

I think Craig helped it a lot with hard landing after one jump in SS 14.

[dimviii]

I think Craig helped it a lot with hard landing after one jump in SS 14.

Pluto yes,there is a possibility to have a oil pump failure due to a hard landing ,but at psa r5 cars we have seen many of them without ''hard landings''
its something we will never know for sure,even we guess the reason.
Breen at his comments didn t said something about hard landing though..

[bluuford]

Pluto yes,there is a possibility to have a oil pump failure due to a hard landing ,but at psa r5 cars we have seen many of them without ''hard landings''
its something we will never know for sure,even we guess the reason.
Breen at his comments didn t said something about hard landing though..

I was listening Estonian commanatry after the end of SS14 and they told that car had damage at the front and They quessed that it was the last jump, just before the end of stage.

[bluuford]

lol
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKS431qWsAERowQ.jpg
They rolled on ss 15, close to the spot where Kangur rolled last year. Here is the picture of the car and place where they managed to find hidden tree stump that threw them over. They just went a little wide but it looks like tree stump made the worse. We helped them later to put the car back on the wheels. We were spectating a km later, 200 meters from the spot where Plangi was destroying camera :-) It was the same cameraman that was in our place at shakedown :-) he is completely crazy! By the way, he is official Eurosport cameraman.

[dimviii]

come on bluuford, tell us more about the rally!!!http://www.petrolheads.gr/images/smilies/oldforum/rtfm.gif

[dimviii]

some nice heli shots,and nice landscape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNQFlcDP2c

[nafpaktos]

Amazing vid dim

[KKSF]

KKSF HD video with mistakes, close calls, action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTfGOcJQ7-8

[makinen_fan]

Really nice and refreshing result from Luky, I hope he has a great Rally Finland. I
Also great drive by Kajto for a first time in this rally. It's a pity Kuky skipped the last two rounds, the title may have been a three way fight, although there is still a chance if some sponsors are found.

A photo sequence of the big crash by Adolfsson
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/index.php?id=2604&tx_yag_pi1%5Brm%5D%5BalbumUid%5D=1463&tx_yag_pi1%5Brm%5D%5BgalleryUid%5D=825&tx_yag_pi1%5BitemListrm%5D%5BpagerCollection%5D%5B page%5D=6&tx_yag_pi1%5Baction%5D=submitFilter&tx_yag_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=ItemList&cHash=00c97aa116f856853af488deb0d1e19e

[rage82]

In the weekend I was painting my living room and I was listening the rally radio for both days, what an amazing rally and battle for 1-st and 3-rd it was. Really happy for Alexey that finally he won an ERC event with the old evo, fingers crossed for Finland with the Fiesta despite it will be very a challenging switch. Hope he will have some proper testing prior to rally and not adjusting everything during shakedown. Kajto was also very impressive and the battle with Breen for the championship is wide open.

[martini2771]

Quick video review from motorsandsports.com from Rally Estonia 2015:

http://motorsunsports.lv/video/erc-rally-estonia-2015

[dimviii]

Lukys moment at last stage with 2 wheels from heli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGv_fJ03r7I

[dimviii]

http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photos/auto24_rally_estonia_2015/ele_edgars_leonovs-3007.jpg
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photos/auto24_rally_estonia_2015/ele_edgars_leonovs-2924.jpg
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photos/auto24_rally_estonia_2015/ele_edgars_leonovs-2200.jpg
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photos/auto24_rally_estonia_2015/ele_edgars_leonovs-2699.jpg

http://www.ewrc.cz/ewrc/fotogalery.php?events=20142&fotograf=367

[dimviii]

https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/1379540_953105168066262_1766743787102318841_n.jpg? oh=32c24e4963d96ed71d0442f92af9197f&oe=560F8C84

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Anyone found video of Breen's 'heavy landing' or a photo of the car afterwards showing the damage ?

Maybe this at 20sec ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyE69jHeDEE

[Jarek Z]

If at least one of them will be in top 5 at the end, i´ll be surprised

So Kajto was second, just 12 seconds behind the winner. Are you surprised? :)

[Kalm]

Anyone found video of Breen's 'heavy landing' or a photo of the car afterwards showing the damage ?

Maybe this at 20sec ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyE69jHeDEE

nope, that cant be it, thats Timmu Kõrges jump in that video...
hopefully ERC is going to upload some more videos including onboards soon ... :P

[bluuford]

come on bluuford, tell us more about the rally!!!http://www.petrolheads.gr/images/smilies/oldforum/rtfm.gif

Ok, OK, I will tell.. I was just very tired :-)

Warning, long post! accuse dimvii :-P

So, we started on Friday morning from Tallinn at 07:30. The first setback was the fact that I could not find my hiking boots, so I had to bring my Nokian rubber boots :-) They were very warm!
So, we planned to go to the old house corner in shakedown and there was another bad news, northward parking lot was only for press... Fortunately I did my homework well last year and we drove to the other side of the stage and walked along small forest trail that we used last year. When we reached to the stage then I found out that I had made one very big mistake… I didn’t noticed that shakedown is in opposite direction and this old house corner is extremely boring in this direction. Luckily I remembered that there are several very nice corners a few hundred meters towards the start of the stage. It was easy to walk there as security guys were very friendly (they were very strict near the old house).

So, we ended in a very fast section exactly one corner before Pärn crashed and one corner after Kõrge went off ;-) We hear both actions and walked to see Pärns car. As I told before, we saw how Pärns Fiesta disappeared behind the corner and then we heard a big bang. My friend told me that lets go and see it.. I had my kid with me and I told to my friend to wait a moment until I ask if my kid stays on the chair or comes with us, we had a short chat and suddenly I heard that next car has started (we were 45 sec from the start and it was possible to hear). Then told to very inexperienced young marshal (he was there for the first time, first stage) to move a little bit towards the start of the stage, on the visible side of the crest and slow next car down (because I knew that crash was behind very fast and basically blind corner and we didn’t know if the car is still on the road or not, no one was between those corners). Marshal went on one side of the road and I was on the other side. As it was very fast place, then we left maybe 2,5 m between us. Salo came with fifth gear and used those 2,5 m while driving something like 150 km/h, that was a bit scary, he didn’t lift at all but it seems that it put him to think that something might be wrong, so on the crash corner, someone was in the middle of the road to slow him down and everything went well. It was strange that he didn’t get new opportunity to do the stage, his stage was clearly interrupted.
On our corner was one Eurosport cameraman who was standing on the place where all the cars were throwing huge amounts of stones. He was completely crazy and when we asked if it is painful, then he showed us some small injuries. He was the one whose camera was knocked down by Plangi ;-)
Then we moved to Tartu to our fraternity house and I must say that many cars were very slow, historics were great! We were in the middle of the straight where we were able to see two corners and many cars took the corner in the middle of the road, like some taxis. However, atmosphere was nice and some cars were pretty spectacular ;-)
Next morning we were a bit late with wakeup and I had to drive, because my driver qualified on the co-drivers seat only. We spectated stages nr 3 and 5. Very fast, downhill right corner. 2WD drivers were very spectacular there like Volver, Niinemäe, Sirmanc and all Opels ;-) Lukyanuk, Kangur, Plangi and Kajto were all very clean there. We shortly met forumer Garais (I think it is his forum name), he moved to service to meet Pluto ;-)
Then we moved to SS7 to my favourite place, we were a bit late and we missed a few cars. My favourite place was not restricted area this year and it was spectacular as always. Luckily no one crashed but the French crew Lubet/Belloto made a spectacular stunt there (they were over the limit almost everywhere we saw them). They cut too much into the corner and somehow they jumped form the bank to the corner and passed it successfully!
We moved to SS9 to end our day and now we were together with Garais again. It was the final corner of the gravel stages on Saturday and it was spectacular, it was very long corner that tightens at the end. Many drivers had proper moments there and we saw some extreme sideways driving. Lukyanuk, Plangi, Kõrge, Aus, Kaur and Kajto all very clean on that corner.

On the final day we had very long sleep again and my driver didn’t qualify for the drivers seat again, so, I had to drive again. I must say that he was very bad co-driver as well, because he was able to direct us to wrong place almost always, luckily I knew the roads and understood when we were on the right place ;-) We missed the first loop because I was a bit busy with forecast and we were late out from our accommodation! We parked our car near to the spot where Plangi hit the camera and walked a few hundred meters towards the start of that stage. It was quite long downhill corner. Lukyanuk, Kajto, Aus, Niinemäe, Volver and Sirmacis were really fast there, Plangi was too fast already one corner before his huge moment. And after the end of the stage we moved to Zwaldas crash place and helped them to put the car back on its wheels.

My overall impressions. Rally was very compact and selection of stages was great. I think it was the smallest distance I have ever driven during one rally! Most of the surface was still very good only few places were with great ruts.
Drivers:
You might say that Lukyanuk is crazy. No, he is not. Maybe sometimes. He has extremely feeling of the car and he is able to predict how the car should behave. He was very clean in all the places we saw.
Kajto, was very fast and clean, he was one of my biggest surprise of the rally. Very well deserved 2nd place
Aus: This guys is worth some credits. He has 9 years old car, couple of family friends as mechanics and father as a team manager. Great drive, great result.
Plangi was driving mostly very well but seems that some car problems during stages nr 2,3,4,5 and driving error in SS7 lost him the podium position. He was very lucky with incident in SS15. The funny story is that he broke one tyre on that spot but he discovered that only 0,5 bar is in his rear left as well. So, he took last stage very easy with warning lights on. He was only 0,5 sec behind Kõrge. Kõrge didn’t know it and pushed pretty hard and got puncture in SS16, so finally Plangi finished a bit ahead of him again;-)

Kõrge was driving well, mostly. Some mistakes robbed some time and confidence. Not too bad with new car and it seemed that 208 T16 as overall package is not working in fast Estonian roads. There is plenty of room for development

Breen: I do not know if it was the same problem with the car or him. He was nearly unvisible in my spots. Nothing great to say.
Salo: All over the place, strange lines, sometimes backing of before blind crests. Very bad drive:

Sunninen: Mostly nice lines, sometimes overdriving, Endned badly.
Kruuda: He has developed as a driver… a lot… I remember his lines from a few years ago and they were very angular, now it was clean, fast and nice to watch. This guy has a great potential
Kangur: Very good drive despite one mistake with wrong pacenote. Was a bit too fast during free practice (was on two wheels on our rapid corner together with Murakas) but calmed down by the rally.
Kaur: beautiful drive, just a small mistake ended his rally.

Pärn: Felt too fast during free practice and QS. I am not sure if it was technical problem or speed that took him off. It just felt too fast and I was not the onlyone.
JERC: Sirmacis : Flatout everywhere, clean drive, nothing bad to say, he was clearly faster than other drivers together with Niinemäe. It was pure unluck that Niinemäe lost his position to Bergkvist. He was clearly faster than Swede. However, Niinemäe lost nearly 15 seconds and second spot 1 km before the end of rally when the engine just shut off and he had to restart the car. Seems that 208 R2 is very fast car but still unreliable (Ingram also retired on the final morning with electrical problem, however, his speed was a bit dissapointing).
Volver: This guy is fearless. He is too fast. He needs to take some lessons from Urmo Aava to put his fearless approach in a good use.
All the Polish drivers were driving with very good lines and seems that Urmo has done some great job with his driving lessons;-)

Well, I am almost happy with the rally. I was just sleeping too long ;-) Driving was very spectacular and competition was very tough. Strange is the fact that there were only three drivers in the lower part of top 10 driving Michelin tyres.
And guys, if you see Eurport cameramen on the stage, then feel free to direct them to a little bit more spectacular spot. The cameraman in our spot moved to the spot that we suggested ;-) and his spot was shown live several times in TV show.

Too long.. One nice video for the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1XqxoMhI8&feature=youtu.be
You can see here that during Free practice Pärn nearly hits the same tree that Lukyanuk hit during the QS (one corner after Pärn crash). By the way, Pärn in Estonian is basswood (Tilia)... so Basswood hit the oaktree ;-)

And funny photo of photographer who was trying to make some selfie with flying car.
https://instagram.com/p/5SqmDim-Al/

[eib1]

So Kajto was second, just 12 seconds behind the winner. Are you surprised? :)

Yes, i am. Very impressive drive by Kajto, biggest surprise of weekend.

[Tinke1979]

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

Here is my video from the rally. Including speed, action and mistakes.. + Lukyanuk´s short interview before 3 last stages :)

[sindroms]

We spectated stages nr 3.. We shortly met forumer Garais (I think it is his forum name), he moved to service to meet Pluto ;-)

I don't wonder about that mess regarding to "Garais". In our company was user garais22 (who is writing for Latvia biggest autosport site go4speed.lv) and guy with nickname Garais ("tall one") in real-life :)

Rally Estonia was great for us as usual. Thanks to bluuford we had a best available maps, so we avoid from 2km walking to SS3 spot (this blind downhill righthander). Estonian guys on N4 cars were spectacular while Lukyanuk was very cautious there. Eurosport cameraman received our applause after Plangi's gravel shower on him.
We moved to service park after SS3. There were no cars yet and best part was to taste yogurts from Kruuda team :)
SS7 was our next. It had to take quiet a lot navigations works to get there. But leading co-driver sindroms proved himself once again :) Spot was even better than in video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1XqxoMhI8&feature=youtu.be 0:08 minute.
We did a service park once again then. It was very nice to meet PLuto finally.
SS9 access roads which looked quiet ok on maps, turned out tough to drive. So our company splitted. We took a walk about 1km and met bluufoords company once again. Long uphill righthander - right one place for Estonian N4 guys.
Second day was ordinary. We stayed in SS11/14 stage overnight. Uphill righthander, then downhill following by sharp lefthander and nice panoramic view in addition was our first choice. In second run just to change our spot - 300m straight. Ok, some kind of jump was there.

Opel suspension looks absolutely great - all Opels were driving like on rails. I was missing Estonian national championship a lot.
Not a lot to say anything else about drivers as bluuford did it absolutely perfect.

Our gallery - http://www.go4speed.lv/lv/photo/erc/1023--auto24-rally-estonia-rallijs/

[bluuford]

Sorry, my memory on the names and Forum names is terrible :-( I hope you do not mind :-) And indeed, Opel boys were pushing like hell but the cars were very stable. Very good car!

[makinen_fan]

As Mirek pointed out the video is from 2014, but worth another view!

Amazing onboard with Lukyanuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUU1UUDTgiM&feature=youtu.be

[Mirek]

That's from 2014 but it's still amazing ;)

[bluuford]

Amazing onboard with Lukyanuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUU1UUDTgiM&feature=youtu.be

Final words.. 197 km/h ;-)

[makinen_fan]

That's from 2014 but it's still amazing ;)

Oops! I didn't notice that! I was carried away by what I was seeing!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Watching the ES highlights there was quite a good view of Breen's car after he had retired. They were taking the front bumper off and it didnt look like that was much damaged. Then they showed the front close-up and all looked fine apart from a half crack on the sumpguard. The rest of the front end including the radiator, IC etc looked perfect.

So it appears that the oil pressure problem which ended his rally was just an 'internal' engine fault and not caused by some damage from a heavy landing...

"Towards the end of SS14, we started to lose oil pressure – something’s happened inside the engine and there is nothing we can do about it,” said Breen.

[dimviii]

if the sumpguard had a crack,maybe from landing pushed the sumptank,inside the sumptank is the oilpump.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

if the sumpguard had a crack,maybe from landing pushed the sumptank,inside the sumptank is the oilpump.

I suppose if the problem appeared pretty much straight after the heavy landing then maybe so... I just expected to see more damage if the landing was so bad.

[bluuford]

Kruuda retired in similar way. It seems that he got a tronger impact in the ruts and it broke the radiator. Something is not right in these cars, front low impact should not kill radiator or engine in general.

[Oliverk]

Kruuda retired in similar way. It seems that he got a tronger impact in the ruts and it broke the radiator. Something is not right in these cars, front low impact should not kill radiator or engine in general.

Kruuda didn't brake the radiator. Front bumper broke in ruts and pieces blocked the radiator, it overheated and water boiled out.

[dimviii]

http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photos/auto24_rally_estonia_2015/kan_img_5539.jpg
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photos/auto24_rally_estonia_2015/kan_img_6278.jpg
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photos/auto24_rally_estonia_2015/kan_img_5749.jpg
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2015/photos/auto24_rally_estonia_2015/kan_img_5835.jpg

[Jarek Z]

Luckily no one crashed but the French crew Lubet/Belloto made a spectacular stunt there (they were over the limit almost everywhere we saw them). They cut too much into the corner and somehow they jumped form the bank to the corner and passed it successfully!


Just checked out Pierre-Louis Loubet, because last name Loubet sounded very familiar to my ears. He is indeed the son of Yves Loubet, the famous rally driver from Corsica. Yves Loubet was competing in Lancias for many years and won European Rally Championship in 1989 driving Lancia Delta Integrale from the famous Grifone Esso team. Nice to see his son continuing the tradition of his father! 8th position in FWD in Rally Estonia my not be very impressive, but still not bad for a 18-year old kid! I hope he has more luck in his career than Mathieu Biasion, Alessandro Bettega or Anton Alen!

http://www.modellismo.net/forum/attachments/statico-recensioni-kit/73202d1266698955-auto-lancia-delta-8v-modelers-resized-20numeriser0011.jpg

[Mirek]

I suppose if the problem appeared pretty much straight after the heavy landing then maybe so... I just expected to see more damage if the landing was so bad.

Good luck trying to brake a sumpguard without damaging anything else. It's pretty strong sheet of metal and it simply doesn't crack itself just for fun. If You don't see any damage on the video it doesn't mean there is none.

[Luis Pacheco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBx18JnkYk

[Luis Pacheco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbwg5ntTgkk

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Good luck trying to brake a sumpguard without damaging anything else. It's pretty strong sheet of metal and it simply doesn't crack itself just for fun. If You don't see any damage on the video it doesn't mean there is none.

Here's a pic from the video of Breen's car after retirement and they took the bumper off to see the damage...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/EddieFocus/2015-07-20%2023.04.28_zpsfb4dpavx.jpg

[Mirek]

That's not sumpguard. This is laminate box for radiators. Anyway You can't judge any damage from such picture.

By the way does anybody know what is that hose lying on top?

[dimviii]

fresh air to somewhere they need to cool.if we could see a betetr photo from engine bay,maybe we coud see where they drive this hose.

[Mirek]

Thanks, I just found it strange as I don't remember seeing it before.

Something craaaaaaazy
https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/11745438_10205202466965149_3880571933051434748_n.j pg?oh=2ccc6742ac1a067528de01043998f062&oe=5611936F

[faateris]

Rally Estonia photos - http://janisasaris.com/jaunumi

JA

[Fast Eddie WRC]

That's not sumpguard. This is laminate box for radiators.

Yes I only said that from my first quick view on TV, but from the pic its clearly not.

I notice that there has been nothing said by Peugeot-Sport regarding the retirement... maybe this indicates an engine problem ? I think if it was the result of an impact they would want it known, to try to stop reliability being questioned again.

[Luis Pacheco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1XqxoMhI8

[RS]

I notice that there has been nothing said by Peugeot-Sport regarding the retirement... maybe this indicates an engine problem ? I think if it was the result of an impact they would want it known, to try to stop reliability being questioned again.

There is always a 'reason', like in Ypres where Breen went off the road and got a few leaves stuck in the radiator.. but if the car cannot withstand these minor incidents it is clearly not durable enough.

[bluuford]

https://vimeo.com/134067917
Ofiicial Rally review (short). Very nice video with some moments from different angle including interview with winner. It was a great event. Urmo Aava drove well, but his rally organizing skills are just exceptional!
Greetings from Japan!

[Barreis]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1066959216649494&set=vb.169241833087908&type=2&theater

[dodge33cymru]

Watching Day 2 coverage at last.

This coverage is so hard to watch. The number of times the commentator calls Lukyanuk "the Bulgarian" almost makes me think he's doing it on purpose; he hasn't referred to anyone else's nationality. At least he's progressed from calling Kajto "Kadge-toe" which was his favourite name in Day 1.

Thanks for all the videos in here; you guys cover rallying waaay better than Eurosport.

[stefanvv]

Watching Day 2 coverage at last.

This coverage is so hard to watch. The number of times the commentator calls Lukyanuk "the Bulgarian" almost makes me think he's doing it on purpose; he hasn't referred to anyone else's nationality. At least he's progressed from calling Kajto "Kadge-toe" which was his favourite name in Day 1.

Thanks for all the videos in here; you guys cover rallying waaay better than Eurosport.

Cars plates are little confusing. Belarus is acronymed BL, Bulgaria is acronymed BG, though Lukyanuk is not Belarisian either.

[sindroms]

Ralfs Sirmacis in interview for go4speed.lv:

"- In second day you were not so fast. Did you reduce a pace?
No, we tried to keep the same pace. In second day was feeling that we are lacking power, a lot of drivers complained about fuel pump problems. There were talks about bad quality fuel this time, Chris Ingram withdrew due to fuel pump too. He said he had new fuel pump and it "couldn't end" so simple. Others said when they disassembled it there were some "rubbish" in."

Could it be...?

[Mirek]

If I'm not mistaken juniors use always stock fuel from some local petrol station. In that case it would be for sure possible to have some low quality fuel. As we discussed in some other topic long time a go this is always a risk when using stock fuel.

[cali]

Estonian fuel stations are quite notorious when it comes to fuel quality. I'm not surprised at all :)

[Jarek Z]

the thing i like about Luky is that he doesn't crash even though he seems to be on the limit most of the times... of course the limit you push to beat the nobodies of ERC is different from the limit you need to push to be a challenger in the WRC... but still, lets hope Finland goes well for him and we have a nice addition to the WRC for the future.

Do you still think that Lukyanuk doesn't crash? He has just annihilated the Fiesta that he was going to drive in Finland ;)
http://rajdy.autoklub.pl/news/lukjaniuk-rozbil-fieste,62599

http://www.autoklub.pl/news/foto/201507/news20150727_62599h.jpg

[N.O.T]

as i said the limit of the nobody-infested ERC is different than this of the WRC. It showed very early unfortunately, because his style would be a nice addition.

[Plhus]

http://www.src.czechrallyeweb.net/pages/estonia2015.htm