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Sandell has fingers crossed for Mikkelsen :D
Congratulations to Andreas :D
Get in! Congrats Andreas :)
Andreas on the finish line! Great work! :)
Congratulations to Andreas, Ola and Skoda UK.
Well done Andreas and Ola. Great season.
Congratulations to Andreas for a great win, pitty for Loix, loosing about two more minutes on last stage and by this the third place in championship. He has to do another 50 kms of liaison before reaching Paphos, so hope he can make it. His engine didn't sound very well at stage end and they had to push it over the stop line.
Yes, congratulations to Andreas and Ola!
Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaa !
Biggest thing for Norwegian rallysport since 2003 !!!!
Skoda UK hired the right team!
congrats to Mikkelsen and Ola.Well desrved championship.
pitty that the rally hadn t got fight till the end with another one or two contenters.
Congrats to Andreas and Skoda UK for backing a good 'un!
Another great season of IRC - they must be doing something right as the last three champions are all mega drivers.
Great shot of the sun going down! Looking forward to Golden Stage now.
Congratulations Andreas, Ola and Skoda UK!
Undoubtedly deserves Andreas the title the most of all ! With his age there are more titles to expect...Again, congratulations to young norvegian driver and his co-pilot!!
In the end Juho managed to beat Burcu, so he isn't the last S2000 driver in finish :D
Arctic Rally is that on a isle that rally? I'm now doubting myself? :p It's because the IRC will begin and end with a rally on a Isle (Cyprus will be final again then)
If you call Europe as island, the yes.Otherwise not :-)
Congrats, rally pleased with Andreas taking the title!
Thought so ;p. So Arctic will not be the starting event.. What Isle could it be...Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
Twelve rallies are in it with 13th rally there are negotations (Circuit of Ireland??)
Season stats: Autosport : Intercontinental Rally Challenge (current system unfortunately can't show half points in overall)
Jezdci = Drivers
Značky = Manufacturers
RZ = SS wins
PC = Production cup
I wrote the half points as well:
IRC driver standings
1 Mikkelsen 153.5
2 Kopecky 152
3 Hänninen 125
4 Loix 123
5 Neuville 115
6 Bouffier 110.5
7 Wilks 47
8 Sandell 44
9 Gardemeister 43
10 Kruuda 39
So, Sandell and kruuda made it to top 10 thanks to the last rally
IRC manufacturers
1 Skoda 362.5
2 Peugeot 241.5
3 Subaru 117
4 M-Sport 107
5 Mitsubishi 104
6 Honda 46
7 Proton 41
8 Fiat 15
So, Skoda missed only 3 points from maximum. Subaru passed Ford to take third and Honda passed Proton to take 6th
IRC 2WD
1 Raoux 120
2 Albertini 119
3 Puskádi 71.5
4 Kangur 53.5
5 Guglielmi 40
6 Charalambous 30
7 MacCrone 27
Just 1 point between top 2, and is it first time since Sandell won JWRC in 2006 when Renault driver has won such a title?
2WD manu
1 Honda 320
2 M-Sport 161
3 Peugeot 149
4 Fiat 85
5 Skoda 73
Massive lead for Honda
Production Cup
1 Arai 111.5
2 Gonon 75
3 Cavigioli 37
4 Timotheou 36
5 Nutahara 32.5
6 Savvas 30
7 Pritchard 27
8 Pechenyk 27
Arai took it on the last rally:-)
Congratulations to Andreas and Ola! They were the raw speed of IRC 2011 and showed great maturing during the year. It would be more than interesting to measure Andreas' speed in WRC.
There haven't been any rumours in Finland around Arctic Rally being an IRC round.
Horror.
Congratulations to Andreas and Ola for the IRC championship.
But what do you guys think about this points scoring system. With this system Andreas scored 57% of his points from the two last rallies compared to Jan that scored 33,6% of his points with two victories.
With equal points Andreas would have been out from the title battle before Scotland (54 points behind Jan). Freddy and Thierry was 25 points behind Jan, Juho was 30 points and Bryan 40points behind. Still four drivers that had at least a theoretical change for the championship.
IMO IRC should in the future see what is the standing before the two last or the last IRC rally and then decide the coefficients for the rallies.
I’m not saying that Andreas don’t deserve the title but at the same time I feel little sorry for Jan.
Below some scenarios with different coefficients.
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i.../IRCpoints.jpg
Without coefficients and without scrap results, that is how a championship must be. In my opinion Jan Kopecký is the real champion and not Mikkelsen who is very lucky with the coefficients and the scrap results.
Also strange to see that a Group A car can win the Production cup.
Congratulations to Mikkelsen and Floene, they deserved the title . They and Neuville/Gilsoul were the fastest and most attractive in my opinion in this season, especially Mikkelsen in the 2nd part of the season. But I'm afraid in my opinion this will never be a true title. Kopecky is the real champion througout the year as he was the most consistent. Mikkelsen was leading the last 6 rallies, however you don't become champion by leading rallies. This coefficient rule is extremely stupid, but as pointed this rule was from the beginning and it was the same for everyone .
Well, here I disagree with all, who are against coefficients. As already somebody wrote, all crews know already from the first rally in 2011 for this system, so they knew, that the highlight of the season will be on the last two rallyes. And all tactics through the season is worth nothing, as everything will be turned upside down in yust two last races. And it is good for the sport itself, because on the other hand we would see almost nowebody in the Cyprus. And imagine organizers with yust some local crews on the start of the IRC rally.
Andreas showed terrifying speed & mental stability at the right time, so he deserves the title.
God forbidden to change the rules through the season, this is stupid proposal....
Summary: it was the same for everyone, they had their chances, but yust one is the champion at the end.
Indeed if u don't agree with that ruling, don't start then and don't make it a objective then. But like always there will be criticism afterwards like it's in every sport..
But Mikkelsen have most stage wins....Quote:
Originally Posted by Wim_Impreza
Kopecký finished all the rallies where he took part in. Mikkelsen crashed twice in SS1 and he crashed also in Hungary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micke_VOC
Now it's all over. What about calendar for next year?!
Kopecký crashed in Ypres shakedown and didn't even start to the first stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wim_Impreza
But anyway it's clear that IRC is not a competition in regularity. That is called SWRC.
OK for coeficients, but the rally must be much more longer, not only 5 special stages x 2 drives and alltogether 180 km. If the rally will be next year about 300 km on this mix of surface, then it can be with coeficient 2 ;) ...or let´s replace the Cyprus with our czech "Rally Hustopece"...same lenght and same mix of surface, but new places :D ...just fun, but the organizers of Rally Cyprus must think about all these things a lot :s mokin:
Peter Baerts of Eurosport talked about 12 rallies (maybe 13)in 2012, starting the season on an island and finishing on an island (probarly Cyprus again)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
That's a pretty good point - if you offer double points, then the Rally should be longer than a normal event. In the BRC in 2009, the final round was in Yorkshire, and offered double points, but it was only a one day event - didn't make sense. However, I understand why Cyprus & Scotland offered 2 & 1.5 x points - to get a better entry.Quote:
Originally Posted by liposh
For example, in next years WEC, the Le Mans 24 hours is offering double points.....entirely sensible .
They have been in contact with Arctic Rally, IRC needs a proper snow/ice rally. But I think its too expensive to arrange an IRC-event so it will not be in Finland. Thats a pity.Quote:
Originally Posted by alleskids
So the start of the season will be in Scotland(island) already in february/march and end the season on Cyprus.
Spa 24 hours was also the biggest event every GT championship where it was included. If u dominate the event full 24 hours, u have a very big chance to win the whole championship, every 6 hours u get a nice amount of points.
Mikkelsen will not start Golden Stage tomorrow.
Not bad.
VFTS: Really? It doesn´t make any sense. And anyway, please always tell us the source, it is important. THX in advance.
...oh really, he told it on press conference...bad for SKODA, because only Hanninen has power to stop Neuville and Al-Attiyah tomorrow...and I don´t think he will be the "lucky man " tomorrow. He isn´t so "young and mad" like Neuville.