Nice choke there Craig
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Nice choke there Craig
Tanak has nearly halved Breen's lead !
Stage win for Tänak, first one with Puma I guess. The jar is opened now.
First stage win for Tänak and Msport this season
Seemed to me Breen tires were gone
How, he looks rather boring. Last one he had some monents but other than that he looks like on rails. Look at Lappi or Neuville If you want some thrills.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kras
@Oliver: Keep going like this. It´ll be fine!
is it just my impression or do a lot of drivers seem happy with there they are and how they are doing this year? Breen, Tanak, Solberg, Evans, Rovanpera maybe even Lappi a bit
Why wouldn´t they? Except from Kalle...Quote:
Originally Posted by seb_sh
I agree, he has been really clean and smooth all day from what I have seen, except those two corners!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
His car seems to have most of the parts still attached, Neuville‘s looks like it’s driven through a war zone!
Just noticing didn't mean they should not be. Last year Tanak was more and more pissed of at Hyundai, Breen was more and more unsettled, Lappi was saying he has no chance against Kalle, Evans was not comfortable in the car, Solberg under pressure at Hyundai. We'll see how it goes but things seem more balanced.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Yeah, like some zombie - by visual it should be dead, but still moving.Quote:
Originally Posted by doubled1978
Hopefully not tempting fate, but there's also been no real technical issues for anyone here either (just Loubet no hybrid).
There have been many in WRC2 field - Veiby yesterday, Suninen today, Kaur's powersteering and probably some more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Yet another crap Friday for Neuville and a fightback required.
Great day from Tänak. Definitely can fight for the title with this car
Lappi all over the place
Tänak Ott - Järveoja Martin
"Result-wise, we can definitely be quite happy. It's much more than we expectred coming here. But the thing is that we could be a lot better."
Only 6 seconds behind rovanpera. It could be worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Aaahhh. You mean in a positive way, then? Sorry for misunderstood.Quote:
Originally Posted by seb_sh
Bertelli drunk? Something broken probably lol
Tanak wont be worried about Breen tomorrow with having nearly the same road position.
2nd on the road, 10 seconds behind Evans who was 3rd on the road, seems reasonable. Evans' day was quite worse, 24 seconds behind Tanak while driving the best car of the lot. Also no fightback possible, too few cars had problems today so Neuville will still sweep tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Great rally so far by Ott, I don't think Breen or Lappi will be able to keep up with him on speed.
Thoughts after first day. Katsuta's first test as a poinst scoring driver is a fail unfortunately. Everyone else did well considering the conditions. Neuville had physical and road postions limitations so I can't be too critical. Loubet made it, his times don't matter that much but it's important that he improves as he goes and finishes the rally.
Pajari till 7th stage had 6.8sec diff from Oliver.
At last stage lost 6.2 to Oliver
very good interview with Cyril, Hyundai has a proper team principal! Also liked that he was not afraid to call out the need to improve the coverage.
Some pictures from Friday:https://www.ir7.at/content/fotos_bes...eden_2023.html
https://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2023/sweden3/1.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2023/sweden3/2.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2023/sweden3/3.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2023/sweden3/4.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2023/sweden3/5.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2023/sweden3/6.jpg
Seems today we had one stage (run twice) with big cleaning, and the rest had a little cleaning but it was not extreme.
What are we expecting the rest of the rally stages to be like?
Great event so far. Kalle is more behind than I expected but nice to see how fast Breen, Lappi and Takamoto have been. Tänak on ss7 was amazing! There’s motivation showing!
Great tyre strategy by Oliver - saving new tyres for the final icy stage!Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Kalle is still only 20 sec from 3rd which is 5 SS x 4 sec or 4 SS x 5 sec only so this more than doable. And still he could put pressure on those 2 guys up in front too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scaha
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Any tyre info available? Who's with 5 and who's with 6 tyres?
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WRC LIve: Toyotas 6, others 5.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
Katsuta first on the road and average already 139km/h
Second pass in danger..?Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
So many long straight sections... I think we can expect Rovanperä show to begin
So... I di not see anybody complaining about cpt Bertorelli's presence on this rally....
Danger for who? Average speed rule is stupidQuote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
Kalle just 0.5 faster than Thierry in spl1
... but, he is slower than Neuville.Quote:
Originally Posted by meh