Good morning guys (7am here in Japan). Looking forward to different type of stages, especially Jack's Ridge.
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Good morning guys (7am here in Japan). Looking forward to different type of stages, especially Jack's Ridge.
Hm Bertellis Puma is the Monte winning one.
Nice show on first run trough power stage, Ott nearly went off there.
Solberg: Fucking Hell!
Edmondson: Yep. 30....
I think it is because of the short itinerary and Jack's Ridge. There are over 10,000 spectators there, with the first pass timed to be the highlight of the morning's entertainment programme, just before lunchtime.
TRIVIA: Jack's Ridge is named after Jack Hawkeswood who is competing in an AP4 Spec GR Yaris. His father, Andrew built the stage on his own property. He is a former top NZRC and APRC driver who also builds AP4 cars.
CORRECTION; Jack's Ridge is apparently named after Andrew's father, i.e. Jack's Grandfather.
Am I the only one awake and watching events unfold? Forum is sooooo quiet...
i am here tooo!!!
On board as well. 4:30 am for me :D
Cheers to you both! It's 5:30 AM here and I haven't slept at all so far, bound to be a bit groggy later today...
3:35pm here Comfortable following a WRC event this time
And another technical problem for the Puma?
Edit: nope, just a puncture.
Disappointing to say the least.
Anyone include Bertelli in their pickems? I don't think anyone would have believed he would be the top finishing Puma!
I don’t understand why they ( the commentators) think Ott can save it, if Kalle wins it’s game over as he would have 6 wins as oppose to a maximum of 5 wins for Ott.
Kalle going for 25+5, Full send!
Lets fking go!
Outstanding full attack from Ott!
A deserving winner, a disciplined drive knowing when to attack and when to consolidate.
Congrats, Kalle! Well deserved title.
Well done to Kalle, huge congrats & well deserved, hopefully next year he’ll have some opposition ;)
Master class from Kalle! Congrats to Jonne, too!
All 3 latest world champions on the podium and all have been with Toyota.
Congrats whole Finland!
Well for those in our part of the world we have Bathurst and Shayne Van Gisbergen again to
Look forward to next weekend
A few of us were chatting tonight and the consensus was that young Oliver Solberg came of age during this event. Quick when it counted handled issues without getting upset and handled them with maturity
Not sure I'd call two 4th times on a rally with low entry and lots of retirements as "quick".
But I agree that this and Ypres is what he needs to be doing to advance in his driving. Drive at good but safe pace and learn, instead of pushing every stage and having a moment on every second.
Just as in Ypres it also shows he is not (yet?) an asset in manu fight and he should not be. The whole idea of using him as nominated driver is wrong and adds unnecessary pressure. (Which is obviously lifted since mid season as manu title is decided, but in Monte it's there again).
What I find interesting is that Toyota struggled massively in Greece, Hyundai struggled here....but Puma was near the top on both rounds. Just that the car (Greece) or drivers (NZ) aren't reliable.
I guess it was easier for Rovanperä to aim for fastest time instead of fourth in the power stage.
Two bad rallies didn't shake him at all. Very good drive.
Sent from my Takapalk.
Only shame is we can’t see the podium celebrations and him being the world title, I doubt anyone will beat this record for quite a while.
Congrats to Kalle and Jonne and to you Finnish fans and friends.
The greatest rally nation in the world finally got their new champion. What a day to celebrate. New national day for Finland parallell to 6th of December?
Looks like the Toyotas and Fords (slightly less) are better in the stages with higher average speeds and probably higher cornering slide speeds. Hyundai appears to be better with slower speed stages with slower slides. NZ winner average speed Toyota 99.9 km/h and Greece winner Hyundai average speed 84.7 km/h
Q:
If you could go back to the pace on Friday – Saturday it ebbed away. Is there a reason why?
OT:
We were having some transmission troubles again on Saturday and since we already had one in Greece, we did not have anything to put in and we had to make it to the finish. We had to manage it as good as possible so we did not lose too much but that’s how it was.
Full press https://www.fia.com/news/wrc-k-rovan...world-champion
A quite brilliant rally win by Kalle on a new event with very tricky conditions. It showed his true skill and bravery.
And to do this with the pressure of the chance of clinching the world title proved his mental toughness at this young age.
A very worthy new World Rally Champion :champion: and the scary fact that he will only get better !
Amazing season and win for Kalle. Also a great moment in WRC history. I remember this year's Monte when he was really struggling with new gen cars, I was thinking "yeah, this might be too soon" and here we are now. What a force and I don't see this trajectory changing soon unless Tanak gets a better car or somehow Hyundai magically gets their stuff together for next season. Congrats to Kalle and Jonne and for all the Fins for getting theyr title back:]