Rallye Wrc Monte-Carlo 2013

English version with the dreaded Mr King:

WRC 2013 Monte Carlo Day 1 Highlights - YouTube

Day 2 soon - Loeb notwithstanding, VW must be quietly satisfied with their first competitive day. Despite his woes JML has kept it together and can only improve.

Still looking for 1 or 3 persons (identified gite for 4 or 6 people) to make up a group to see next year's Monte. Fly into Valence (edit: Lyon I mean :rolleyes :) on Monday, leave Nice on the Sunday.

SS5 Spits starting ...

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Originally Posted by spiderem

if there is 50cm of snow as predicted, do they use snow plough before / in between the stage?
I'm sorry, but as exciting as it sounds, i highly doubt that this much snow would be drivable...

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It's generally same forecast as in 2009. That year the first morning stage was under something like 10-20 cm of new snow, heavy in lower altitudes. First car after zeros was Franz Wittmann jr. and he was the first real snow plough. Later Meeke and Hänninen crashed in that stage. When there is a calamity in the mountains there are not enough machines to keep all roads ok. It was really crazy and we even didn't manage to reach the stage and had to walk last two kilometers uphill :)

On this stage there is the famous tricky place where Sarrazin crashed in 2009 and Arzeno in 2011. Also just two kilometers further there is a place where Vouilloz crashed in 2009. I guess the conditions may look similar to that of 2009 now.

Good morning! Hey, we got splits :up:


Edit: okey....some splits...

Penalties for Prokop and Ostberg are back :)

Ogier hanging onto Loeb's bumper in splits. Should be a good day's rallying.

And it seems it is business as usual for Mr. Loeb.

Top start by Ogier :) Bring on another day of rallying