And Østberg announced in FIA press conference post Sweden he's also going next to Argentina.
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And Østberg announced in FIA press conference post Sweden he's also going next to Argentina.
Just because all of that quoted - absolutely PR farce.
Watch till the end. Mads can troll even Citroen PR stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJW4ge6lWl0
In Monte he didn't have any information about the possible ice in that corner from his ice note crew.
Also this was his first Rally Sweden and first time working with factory team in Snow conditions with just one day of testing in Monday and I believe Kalle and the team had different thoughts about what setup works and what not.
We saw him test the new Evo Fabia in Czech but that has nothing to do with Sweden and is a different car.
Also where was Nikolay? Did he jump into WRC too quickly? Maybe more national rallies to build up some speed first.
Probably no. Even most of the manuf. don`t take it seriously, clear indication is last weekends Sweden, not to mention the upcoming joke in Rally Mexico.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...kda5DA/pubhtml
If the WRC2Pro rules applied to the 2018 season, how would it affect the standings? Well, Huttunen would have gained a lot more positions by being a Pro driver behind regular WRC2 drivers. On WRC2, Nil Solans and Benito Guerra would benefit as well, being closer to bigger points.
Come on, you are trying to troll again? There is plenty of places on Monte where should be ice and you have no notes about it from gravel crew. He easily started too quickly and made a mistake. And your theory regarding "works car" is also... ...funny. Nikolay has decided to go different way - from beginning he wanted to start more careful as his main target was go through all stages without problems to have possibility to learn them for future and not finish somewhere out of the road. It is a question if this tactics was good or not...
Well this is what he said all the time during the rally, I don't see how it is trolling :D Source: https://www.rallit.fi/kalle-rovanper...ksi-sen-takia/
Nikolay was absolutely no where, even thought Kalle went off twice he still showed some pace. Nikolay with his pre event rallies and tests should have been able to fight for atleast podium places, but now his best stage results were 5th in WRC2. I guess that is the level of ERC nowadays ;)
I am sorry to everyone that I have broken my resolution not to answer to Essaj. My fault, I will try not to repeat it ;)
For the two first WRC rallies of this year, there has not been a Skoda in the top 5 of class RC2. The last time this happened was in Australia 2015.
I don`t think that going off, which was an issue even among the best of the best, including multiple time WDC`s and Rally Sweden winners, to ruin your result on your first ever WRC event, is wise.
Agree. That also includes a certain critisized swedish Ford driver. Because he didn´t go off. In an another thread it wasn´t wise... He should have won stages and gone off according to some of the experts.
(the other aspect is his speed - but in a way it is linked to each other...) :) :)
So what do we think of Emil Bergkvist appearance? I mean we have just assessed Gryazin, doing loads of miles before swedish rally, riding a better car etz. etz.
I expect similar judgement on him. Consistent, no offs (that I´m aware of) slowest car of the three brands (doesn´t count Citroen).
To me he just proved his abilities and looks like a future guy for more charges in the future.
Does anybody actually expect gryazin to be truly fast and reliable someday? He is just another rich kid who tries to make up his lack of talent by getting huge experience.
You can find a lot of posts back in this thread expecting him to win in Sweden.
I think that my expectations towards him were quite realistic but on the other hand I have totally underestimated the performance of Veiby.
Yep, it seems Bergkvist also did a great rally (just like Kristoffersson, btw) but we shouldn’t forget that despite all the events Gryazin has done throught his 4 years of rallying (he’s only 21), this was his first ever WRC outing and he wasn’t runing at home, like the guys that finished ahead. Anyway, fingers crossed for him and all the other top WRC2 contenders; it’s always great to have so many talented drivers runing the series.
I didn´t see posts saying Emil B would win. Show'em.
Only realistic from him was to be top five and he did.
Veiby unexpected, yes, but more home event for him than for Emil to be honest. Gryazin, Veiby, Kristoffersson did many rallies and had perfect preparations, not Emil. So to me he did very good. Hard for some guys to admit and say it out loud... ;)
I don't know how You could do that but somehow you changed name Gryazin for name Bergkvist. Denkimi wrote about Gryazin and I reacted on him. None of us commented Bergkvist.
There is a lot of posts predicting Gryazin to win including yours.
It starts with following post and takes several pages of arguments: https://www.motorsportforums.com/sho...=1#post1207169
Including my completely wrong prediction that Veiby will be behind Gryazin.
If Gryazin lacks talent how come he was faster than Rovanpera and all drivers in the Finnish rally championship last year?
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/4...ot-ralli-2018/
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Yes, that's true. But he did this rally:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/3...-liepaja-2017/
Emil has done five Rally Swedens and eighteen WRC events so not exactly inexperienced, although not so many events in an R5 car.
Can’t speak for others but I don’t think I personally ever criticised his talent. I did criticise his decision to drive a PSA R5 though. I still think that set back his career.
You shouldn’t be so sensitive :)
The sponsor was the owner of the car and the team and his name was Jourdan Serderidis.
kalle is the same to me. some kid who has had it all handed to him because of his rich and famous father. he for sure has talent, but we'll have to see how well he does when he comes against opponents who have the same equipment and preparation as him.
they could perhaps both be world champions one day, but at this point neither of them has shown anything so impressive yet that makes me believe that.
Come on, this is just BS. Kalle has had nothing handed to him. Ofcourse he had the possibility to drive a RWD Starlet as a kid, which not many youngsters can do, but he's a factory driver only because of what he has shown on special stages. Not because of his father or anyone else. And sorry, but your last sentence just doesn't mean anything. He's already driven a lot "against opponents who have the same equipment and preparation".
I prefer to see someone ‘organically grown’ too, but let’s face it nobody can get anywhere in motorsport unless they have at least a bit of money behind them from the beginning,
Sometimes people who have the equipment and the preparation succeed and sometimes they don’t (Wilson, Bertelli etc)
and lets dont forget his age :)
for that age I dont recall anybody who has won so many wrc stages. Stage win its not a rally win of course, but still... (only in sweden he won 3 stages, 6 stages was second)
Hope stability would come this year. He has some time to get mature :)