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A different way to follow this rally will be this website: Diretta Rally - Rally Live Streaming - Rally di Monte Carlo 2013 - Diretta Live
The Italian crew formed by Gianluca Cali and Sergio Raccuia will broadcast live from their onboard camera during the stages and the liaisons. Good luck to them!
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They used those unfortunate steel braces. Later some were bent and others took punctures from them (sure Hänninen).Quote:
Originally Posted by SlowSon
I can speak only about the experience from here. Usually it is a condition from local authorities. Either You prevent cutting or they don't allow the stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Those are not rallycars, factorydrivers have rollcage, but if you look at doors they are standars, vw have airbag in steering wheel, some have factory gps/navigator in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bartek
Normal road cars with better seat and simple roll cage.
What is weird: all team use old model cars (Evo9, old S60 and Mk.6 golf)
Thats how a winning car looks like ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Bouffier ok driver, but slowest citroen wrc in monte ;)
old fashioned livery i would say (306 maxi)Quote:
Originally Posted by pucky54
Prefered something more fresh.
Snowfall from late Monday night into Tuesday afternoon will total 12-20 cm Accuweather. Good winter rally comeing!!Quote:
Originally Posted by trifonvl
It´s not weird, because they need 4wd cars and there is no 4wd models available in their car category nowadays...Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
drivers photos from recce
Photos Reconnaissances (Monte-Carlo 2013)
If we see now the traditional photo taken in front of the Valence's bandstand last year, nothing remains the same. Eighteen "musicians" :p are missing and the rest of them will play different "instruments" or will act in a different role.
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You have right but to be honest i can't understand why they have rollcage :) Ok they can have them but if they are "normal driviers" they must adhere to the road rules.... so if you driving 50km/h...Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
For me weird is that Citroen is using Mitsubishi cars not their own cars (for example they have DS3 R) :)
But ok, this is not the most important thing, i was only curious, maybe this can help them in something, better position in car or something
they need 4wdrive cars.They have to drive at deep snow,mud,very bad gravel roads.A ds3 if you stop at a muddy uphill is not going to start.
For the accuracy of the pacenotes it's better to have a car that feels the road well. Not on WRC-level, but Bernd Casier once told me that in Barum ('08 I think) he had a Mercedes A-Class as recce-car (rental car), and that his pacenotes were less accurate because the feeling he had with that "boat" wasn't comparable to how the road really was... Also the drivers in WRC have the same car for all events they can have a better and more objective view about the grip level etc.
VW Golf is 4WD?
The R34 isQuote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
And Mikkelsen did a great show with it last year when he was a gravel crew for Ogier :D
Delecour ice crew for Novikov
Same as this year I believe Mirek
Who is running Bouffier's car?
Gravel crew is driving before stage start, yes? How many minutes before stage start?
PH SportQuote:
Originally Posted by RAS007
PHSportQuote:
Originally Posted by RAS007
Finnish names are hard, but still.... :rolleyes:
Poor VW!!Quote:
Originally Posted by vkangas
He is a co-driver... who cares right? :dozey:Quote:
Originally Posted by vkangas
P1 and P2 drivers can use cars which complying with gr.N regulations during the recce. The main reason is reliability of these cars comparing to civil cars. These cars have racing: shocks, under gards, brakes and brake lines, co drivers equipment ( tripmaster, SatNav, WRC GPS tracking system), spare tyres, Hi jacks. Also on gravel and snow rallyes they can use racing tyres. On the WRC recce the main thing is time because they have schedule with limited time per SS and two passages for every SS. Recce is a most difficult job for the crew. Recce for top drivers with one weak civil car on the rough tough gravel rally is inappropriate. Dani Sordo has new recce car, Evo X ...
PffffQuote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
lol havent noticed it!Quote:
Originally Posted by vkangas
I am quite sure that mister A.F.F. was being sarcastic. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by pucky54
Of course he was, me too ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
Looks like somebody is getting fired tomorrow!Quote:
Originally Posted by pucky54
Who sings the song "I Gotta Feeling"? Is it Ten Years After :D ?Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
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Well, luckily the surname is right and not "Antilla" as often seen...Quote:
Originally Posted by vkangas
On the other hand, nice to see that VW has appreciation to both crew members and they show it (visible in their webpage for example).
I don't see kubica mentioned any where? Or he's not joining?
Good luck to my best driver jarimatti latvala. I hope you finish this one on the top 3.. Good luck to vw. Good luck to mads ostberg and novikov and ford.. Three drivers to put happiness on the fans.. Let the game begin.
No, You have to wait for Rally Islas Canarias of the ERC where he is supposed to appear.Quote:
Originally Posted by keng
Good point, but on the picture below I see 3 champions, on the above it is only 1 ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kielder
I don't know if someone has put this here already, if someone did I didn't read it... An interesting part from the regulations to know:
Maximum tyres allowed for WRC-priority:
- Soft 30
- Supersoft 20
- Snow studs 10
- Snow no studs 20
- Total max. 45 (shakedown included, if you don't drive shakedown only 40)
Maximum tyres for non-priority (all other WRC, S2000 and R4) and P3:
- Soft 30
- Supersoft 12
- Snow studs 8
- Snow no studs 20
- Total max. 37 (shakedown included, if you don't drive shakedown only 32)
Also, like in most countries I think, it's forbidden to have two drifferent tyres on the same axle. So if someone wants to go for a "cross-type" option they will have to change tyres on one side just before the start of a stage and just after finish of a stage, as it's not legal to drive "cross-type" on road section.
Oh, and if you add spikes on your tyres manually you get a 30 minutes penalty :D
So even if it's full snow, it's all about strategy...