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Me too I watch it closely and for sure last year he wasn't faster. This year Ucci was still generally faster on tarmac (except maybe rally elba) which is 70-80% of the championship. You told me to go watch results but I highly recommend you to do it yourself as well. Look at stage results on Ciocco, Sanremo etc...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ucci
And if I'm not mistaken Ucci was first on the road on gravel...
... and i20 R5 really isn't any space shuttle :)
THat stone was there 4-5 cars before Campedelli and they were fallen from a wall from the side of the road. These kind of things happen in every rally of the world, I will never understand all the noise they've made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
The team manager also said that Ucci already knew Adriatic itinerary because he made a sort of spot about the rally talking about the stages before the stages were official. I'm not informed on this though...
So, P208 is still competitive?? Strange, that nobody of drivers share your opinion....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I think Mirek means in comparison with Fabia and Fiesta.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ucci
Even Neuville wasn't convincing compared to the local Belgian drivers with Fabias in Ypres.
legend small clip
https://twitter.com/Bertieschip/stat...74344832524295
We had broken wheel hub on Fiestas R5 also on Barum (Pech and Cerny), co nothing special. Broken axleshaft can also happen, dont forget that he was doing FP and QS before, also that mickey-mouse stage was ideal for breaking this things...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ucci
Guys I've been absent from this forum for a while so maybe you have already talked about this but I've just been told that next year Crugnola could be driving Polo R5 at CIR. Did you know about that?
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It will be interesting to see how fast the car is on Your really twisty asphalt stages. Polo has very long wheelbase for a modern rally car and together with no center differential it might be a disadvantage.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Wouldn't surprise me because DMax-HK Racing (team that ran his Fiesta R5) will get 2 Polo's this winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
WRC cars in Italy. How much more than R5s do they cost to run?
Did Hyundai Motorsport Italia clone Neuville?
Fontana in the i20 WRC at 1:00
https://youtu.be/OjwuDmjZz7Y?t=57
New calendar 2019: No more San Marino, Adriatico and Elba.
Sardinia is back (together with WRC) and is splitted in 2, along with Rally Friuli.
"Tuscan Rewind" a gravel rally in Tuscany that was also a show of old cars is now an event of the championship.
Some event have a 1,5 coefficient because they love to make things complicated without any sense. And also they love tarmac very much since 6 events are on asphalt and only 2 are on gravel.
Some photos from historic Revival Rally Club Valpantena 2018 at https://www.rallylife.cz/16-revival-...lpantena-2018/
Great entry list for Monza Rally Show on December 7-9 - 19 WRC and 63 R5 cars. Alessandro Re is going to drive the new VW Polo R5.
http://www.monzarallyshow.it/doc/201...entry_list.pdf
http://www.autoklub.pl/news/foto/201...204_89615h.jpg
19 WRC and 63 R5? WTF? :D
What's that? About 10% of the R5s ever built?
HK Racing are working hard on the new Polo :)
https://www.facebook.com/HKRacingTea...0545550745605/
Monza rally show practice video
https://youtu.be/14ZnUhxLz40
Rossi leading Suninen after 2 stages
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...2018/?s=204322
I know it’s not exactly a proper rally, but for Rossi to be beating a works WRC driver in ‘his’ car is seriously impressive.
Suninen with a new codriver, but still surprising
Rossi always was fast at Monza beating plenty of wrc drivers through the years.If i remember right,only Loeb beat him and with big margin?
Rossi at drying/wet conditions took 12,4 sec at 9,66kms from Suninen
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...2018/?s=204323
There has been a lot of debates on this forum (and in pub's discussions...) over Rossi's skills at Autodromo Monza. One is for sure-this is no rally; it is a circuit racing, with some obstacles & artificial chicanes (I was many time participing it). But anyway-they are sitting in pure rally cars and man would expect, that one werks-driver (or one Italian rally star, like Perico / speaking just for drivers driving WRC cars on this event) wolud be much faster than Rossi, not to mention Cairoli or Salucci, who are here just for fun....
I don't know how is feeling for example Suninen, who is already half minute behind Rossi....beenig a M-Sport driver and loosing time on tarmac against ''nobody'' like Rossi, can not be something proud of it....
On the other hand, this is a 100% proof, that modern WRC cars are very easy to drive on this kind of stages, with some training you can beat top rally stars....so, hat down in front of Valentino.
Enough of fastest guys-Polo R5 must be awesome car (with plenty of power/in this event power is Nb.1 fact) as young Alex Re is fighting with Rosseti. And gives me tears in eyes, when I see gap from 11x times Italian champion behind Re...P208 R5 is really piece of crap....the car is mature for a museum.
Does Fiesta is the only current WRCars available for privateers..?
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at this video when Rossi giving his interview,the subtitles reffering ''ford fiesta wrc PLUS''
is he running an upgrated fiesta?
https://www.rallylink.it/cms16/index...ights-2-giorno
at ewrc.cz there is ''wrcp'' for all 2017 wrc carsQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...lly-show-2018/
Rossi, Suninen, Brivio and Salluci were driving new generation WRC cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Skoda Italy out of CIR, Scandola without drive.
Peugeot also didn't confirm the program with Andreucci, right?
How closely are Citroen and Peugeot integrated in Italy? Could a switch to the C3 be on the cards?
I remember last year there were rumors of him switching to C3, but obviously didn't happen. Maybe this year?Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
No.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Co-driven
Funtastic the news about Citroën :bounce:
Why not Ucci as driver :confused:
So Citroen Italia announced they will be in CIR in 2019: https://it-media.citroen.com/it/citr...FoTh1GHOVu01hQ
Crew still not announced.
Crew has been announced. It will be Rossetti to drive the Citroen C3 at CIR 2019.
That's really surprising for me (of course Rossetti is very capable driver, no question about that, it's just that I didn't expect that).
He was among the most rumoured candidates for the drive together with Basso and Scandola.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I'm happy for Rossetti because he deserves it but it's also kind of sad that Italy is no more capable to deliver higly competitive young drivers.
Imho no one is at the level of or has the potential to become like Rossetti, Ucci and Basso at the moment. and don't know if someone will ever be.