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After SS16 it sounds to me like Breen is going to settle for 2nd... he is right, Kopecky has much more experience and the points for 2nd are excellent for his first time on this rally...
Ahead of locals Moura and Maga, and Sousa going out, shows an outstanding performance by Breen so far on his Azores debut ! :eek: :)
Why Ricardo Moura changed co-driver and was competing with Sancho Eiró? Wasn't he supposed to have António Costa as his co-driver?
Would make sense, no point in risking everything. P2 is very good considering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Sancho Eiró is his codriver for all Azorian events, see the profile, but Sancho have affraid of planes, so, outside Azores, are others codrivers. Sancho only travel 3x times to codrive at Madeira.
Wow, he will ride in the co-drivers seat but he is scared of planes?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Yes we know you are impressed by Breen... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
:D .. Yes sorry, but no-one else seems to appreciate just how well he is doing and I have been a long time fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
Some of the on-board has been incredible... the work that he puts in is immense.
I suppose the wet conditions and narrow lanes of his Ireland home might be good experience though ! :)
He does have some other fans though:
http://www.craigbreen.com/images/upd...messupport.jpg
BTW - can you spot the spy ??
http://www.craigbreen.com/images/upd...spotthespy.jpg
Danzinger crashed :(
No good :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Crew OK!
Winner's onboard through SS13:
Congratulations to Jan and Pavel on a very good drive. Job done again, 3 wins out of 3. I really feel he has improved as a driver with Dresler alongside.
Good solid performance by Breen too in tricky conditions. Kubica fast again but still with some learning to do as you would expect. I am sure Robert will challenge for victory again on Corsica!
So it's done. Great mature drive of Jan and Pavel. It's first ever overall victory of Jan on gravel and 3rd victory of 3 events this year! Roll on Corsica! :)
From others I think that Ricardo Moura shall be specially pointed because he started with completely new car without more than a short Monday test and despite that finished on podium!
Would agree, good measured drive from Kopecky. And as said good P2 from Breen. Both had punctures I think but the best driver won and Breen has further enhanced his knowledge, experience and reputation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Where's Delacour?
Romania mostly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barreis
He was driving very slow on that stage with technical problems. He went of on tricky place near the end of the stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
What kind of rally is this? No possibiltiy to make proper pacenotes. No visibility on stages when race is on? Just dangerous I think. No sporting measures out of this race. Only the luckiest driver wins, together with some amount of experience.
Shall we cancel Wales too? Fog exists longer than rallying and the bad weather was always part of the game. Unless You invent a weather machine rallying will keep fighting with bad weather or it will became an F1 where even a rain is seen to be often too dangerous to keep the race... Remember the famous drive of Walter Rohl in Portugal?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Per, You recently seem to complain about everything :(
Hey, at least it's not on tarmac :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Experience, no experience, if this rally win's Jan - tarmac specialist, all fastest S2000 drivers compete in WRC, not ERC... :( So wet rally!
Another win by Mr Consistent, Jan Kopecky, and a 1st win on gravel !
Excellent win in terrible conditions but driver of the rally must be Craig Breen - only 30s down after nearly two and a half hours racing and on his 207 gravel and Azores debut...
Well done again Craig and also great to hear he still isnt satisfied with 2nd:
"We just got through that one. We need to be clever again. Of course I tried to push very hard this morning. Nothing stupid, but for sure we were pushing. Its all very well racking up these 2nd places, 2nd is getting monotenious. I want to win."
I think that Rally Sweden should be thrown out from WRC as well... for sure! You know guys, I have heard that their stages are always covered by ice (you know this slippy and dangerous stuff) and sometimes there is even snow on the road!!!!! Can you imagine! :-PQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Anyway, this is among my favourite rallies in ERC and I really want to go there one day. Organization was great (great effort to rebuild the roads overnight and allowig drivers an extra recce pass) and stages were great despite natural hazards trying to stop them. How many mechanical retirements (realted to bad road conditions we had? Compared to many other rallies? Not too many. When drivers go off then it is their fault. You have to drive as fast as the condtions allow, not faster. Congratulations to the great winner.It was well deserved win! He was clearly better tha anyone else.
Yeah, that's Rally. Remeber SS12 was cancelled yesterday because of really thick fog, so not so bad conditions for the rest
But to compete in the Azorian events he has to take the plane to go to the other islands. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Short onboard compilation of Jan and Pavel from today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MpO2ccmxlg&feature=player_embedded
Isn't rallying meant to be a challenge? Come on man, a bit of rain, a few patches of fog, certainly makes things more interesting and it's good to see how crews handle such conditions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
He could travel by boat. I have readed this some months ago... Sell the fish by the price that i bought :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Pacheco
Ricardo Moura has been awarded with the Colin McRae ERC Flat Out Trophy at the event. Well-deserved. I hope to see this great driver on more events of the ERC.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...90476358_n.jpg
What a luck in his unluck for Stéphane Lefèbvre, who finally took 2nd place in 2WDs class(and 16th overall) :)
Is it really?Quote:
Originally Posted by noel157
He is supposedly a works driver (although his dads bank manager would probably disagree) and has probably done more miles in a rallycar in the last 4 years than pretty much any driver in the world.
Beaten comprehensively again by Kopecky (who had never won on gravel), (until he crashed) a driver on his 2nd gravel rally, and almost beaten by a driver on his first s2000 outing and claims he is delighted to get experience.
Never heard his Irish predecessor coming out with that building experience for next year nonsense!
Would Meeke have been happy if he had just put in Breens performance? NO
Then again, Kris was getting paid to drive the car, rather than pretending to get paid.....
So no visibiltiy doesn´t count when making pacenotes?? I think the discussions of safety on this forum has come to lovest level when not agrred about the dangerous situstion most of the drivers had driving in total unvisibilty. Ask Kubica.
The least a driver could ask of is to make proper pacenotes. If that´s done it would be less problems doing stages in fog. Remembering Burns in GB around 1997-98 beating CMR over a minute on foggy stage.
You implied that it was a case of whole rally which is not true at all. Anyway if the rally was just a lottery without any sporting value like You said we would hardly have third victory for the same man and third second place for the same man out of four events (when both of them skipped one).
What utter nonsense !Quote:
Originally Posted by catty
1. Kopecky may not have won on gravel but he has huge experience and was usually only beaten by Hanninen
2. Breen is 9 years younger and has little gravel experience himself, being brought up on tarmac rallying in Ireland
3. He also has no gravel experience in the 207 and this was his first time in Azores and in horrendous conditions
4. The 207 is so old and is clearly inferior to the Skoda, not to mention out-gunned by the RRC Citroen & Ford
5. This is Breen's first season in IRC/ERC
And he should what ? Win the rally and the Championship ??
Of course it affects the whole rally in the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
This is not the WRC forum but I remember almost everyone crying for the bad conditions agreeing that MC should cancel the last stages because of that. That time the drivers had pacenotes which was correct, which is the difference. They should have completed the rally (MC) driving all the stages. No problem for me.
And Sweden - yes - tha rally on ice - dangerous? No - only with tarmac tires.