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Originally Posted by dupanton
Apologies for raising your blood pressure, but no WRC paparazzi with long lenses were involved! As M. Dupanton states above the couple merely posted a selfie beach pic on Fadesbook. Oh, and there it is, courtesy of dim8-san.
On WRC and ERC level, doping checks are normal. During last 15 years I remember lot of similar checks. I remember once on Rally Bulgaria they took six crews from top ten after first leg.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Thanks PLuto and all the other guys who answered. I've never heard of such checks but fortunately they're doing controls. Shame on crews found positive.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
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Originally Posted by Rally Hokkaido
Well off season, what are rabid rally fans supposed to do but speculate and gossip?
Showed my wife the photo and she said "Oh goodness! They have the same nose, same chin, same mouth, same forehead!"
Photoshop? Or reality?
Do we have a Dakar 2016 thread somewhere? If not we should make one!
Happy new Motorsport year in 2016!
And hopefully many tight fights out there, and also good discussions in here!!
Happy New Year guys!!!
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Merry Christmas to our fellow forumers and to the world celebrating the day. :)
Congratulations to Hayden Paddon and Katie Lane on their engagement announced today
Barman has arranged extra supplies of Guinness for the weekend. Guinness was very popular with some celebrating fans Thursday night and again Friday afternoon.
Ogier is going to become a father. Best wishes to him and his wife.
Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat 50 years ago 27.1.1966
Rauno Aaltonen (13.658 votes) was selected as the most popular Finn by a vote organized by the magazine Viikkosanomat.
Second was Timo Mäkinen with 11.408 votes. Third was Esko Kivimäki (“quiz expert”) with 11.347 votes and fourth president Urho Kekkonen with above 10.000 votes. Totally 100.000 votes was given.
http://www.hs.fi/ihmiset/a1453782914759
Those were the days.:)
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Just seen there's been a Hollywood movie announced today starring Keanu Reeves called 'Rally Car'
http://www.empireonline.com/people/k...ler-rally-car/
The Chinese co-production is note-worthy I guess but if you read the article it really doesn't sound promising...
Politely said yesQuote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
Barman can I have a red bull please. I'd like to drink it while watching the 52 minute Rally Sweden highlight show on Red Bull TV http://www.redbull.tv/episodes/AP-1KT1SDBDW2111/sweden
http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/leg...ive-streaming/
Historic rally livestream now. They have discovered the amazing technology of picture in picture stage end interviews. Now if only WRCplus could find out about that...
Maybe a silly question for some, but which drivetrain are the big teams using? Like gearboxes etz? We have XTrac, Sadev, Quaife or do they use own developed technics?
I don't know for WRC teams but what I can remember is listed bellow
Fabia R5, S2000 - X-Trac
208 T16 R5, DS3 R5 - 3MO
207 S2000 - Sadev
Fiesta R5 - Sadev
Fiesta S2000 - X-Trac
Punto S2000 - Sadev
Punto S2000 Evo - X-Trac
Satria S2000 - X-Trac
Focus WRC - Ricardo
Mikko Hirvonen @MikkoWRC 20m20 minutes ago
Summer is coming!! Getting ready… :) #NeedABiggerWorkshop #AmericanBeauties #WorkInProgress
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Janvanvurpa get down from there you absolute madman !!!!
http://komonews.com/live/event
anybody fancy a legendary 205 t16?
http://rmsothebys.com/mc16/monaco/lo...roup-b/1078910
Andreas Mikkelsen "So, I learned a lot last weekend while joining Audi Sport and the Audi Sport TT Cup. A proper false start was one thing! #LeagueofPerformance"
https://www.facebook.com/AudiSport/v...4968628587779/
:D
That's one of the best onboard videos ever! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AL14
Someone made a post the other day about the decline of specialists in Rallying which made me think. How many drivers actually did enough rounds to really be in a position to challenge for winning a World Drivers Championship. For whatever reason I looked back to 1995:
Year Number of rounds Number of drivers doing all rounds Winner
1995 8 4 (3 drivers also did 7 rounds Colin Macrae
1996 9 4 Tommi Makinen
1997 14 3 Tommi Makinen
1998 13 6 Tommi Makinen
1999 17 7 Tommi Makinen
2015 13 9 (Paddon and Prokop did 12) Ogier
Now my stats might be a bit out of kilter but the question I'd like to ask people, is it harder to win a WRC drivers championship today than it was in the mid 1990's. Does it make the drivers of today more impressive or not? Too many other variables?
Too many variables. The champions of each time/year/period are the best with what was there at the time. Some like Loeb for example didn't have as much competition but he will always be one of the greatest. That he had less competition says more about how good he was, and how he made the gap bigger. The specialist has gone because a more complete driver is now what is required. Drivers in central Europe, fr, de, tend to start on tarmac, while drivers from Finland start on gravel. Now they are expected to learn both. The drivers now want the championship as much as the manufacturers used to. Now both want to win, and all of the time. 2017 will see some very different approaches to win because of the greater competition. Every point will count
Grab a beer, pull up a bar stool it's time to listen to Julien tell us a story https://youtu.be/03E6k0fFuwc?t=1545
then let's charge our glasses and drink to Marie Pierre Rossi. MPR has been with Citroen racing since 2001 including being the PR person for Seb Loeb. Merci Marie Pierre merci
anybody knows if Motorsportmonday stopped publication. they still have last week issue on their website.
Last Monday they sent an email saying that they had some technical issues and this week's edition would be late.
Many wishes to Mikko Hirvonen who got married yesterday
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With Linda Martins, who he met during his time at Citroen I suspect.
Congratulations!
@world at it again.. What a beautiful fake lens flare in that corner created in Photoshop....
wasnt married previous? i have the impression that i had see photo with his kids?Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
Me too. Did wonder myself. His second wife then?Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Stupid dog "pro" photographer? Too many flowers... Hopeless.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
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