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Results can be found here:
http://on-line.rally-saturnus.si/index.htm
Although Trojan won the stage, by far most spectacular driver on stage was Gassner junior. First stage was only for spectators fun, 3 laps of fine gravel drifts on speedway circuit. Tomorrow real stages are coming.
Bdw can someone translate Pech`s opinion about rally. Only thing I understand is that he has great respect for very demanding and technical stages...
He says:
We are after recce. It is beautiful warm weather here. For us Czechs the stages are very difficult because they are still corner-to-corner-like on a narrow road. Interesting thing is that there is a gravel part on every stage which makes it very changeble in rhytm. But we love the stages and the others Czech crews as well. It is very difficult to understand several different types of tarmac when especialy one is very slippy. We need to learn the local knowleadge of the slippery places in all the long rally. The super special stage will be a big fun as it is on a gravel speedway and we are looking forward to it.
Thanks Mirek!
After the first real day in Saturnus rally,
Vaclav Pech is leading with a comfortable lead of 45 seconds in front of Hermann Gassner in second and Tomaz Kaucic in third.Pech was fast all day and he was VERY attractive,while Gassner was in his normal fast but extremely unattractive style.The only main retirement was Jaroslav Orsak.
He went off the road at a gravel section,almost no damage to the car.I spoke to him and he said that he was oversteering too much at a corner and he tried to correct the car when he went off the road with his last wheels.Then he simply slid off.
Tomorrow will be 6 more stages.
Results after 1. leg of rally Saturnus:
http://on-line.rally-saturnus.si/ss_leg1.htm
From 84 starters only 49 managed to finished the leg. Quite a lot of retirements (probably most spectacular were Lamonato and Kos-first Lamonato slid off, and then Kos "parked" his yugo on Lamonato`s clio) I hoped more crews will finish the leg. It was beautiful sunny day, a little bit windy and on SS Čeče where I was it was also very dusty so I had mouth full of dust when I went home. But it was a great "circuit" stage (3 laps) , 4wds were awesome on fine downhill gravel hairpins. Pech showed why he is master like he is, I think he adapted quickly to the new stages and is now in commanding lead 45 sec. ahead of Gassner, Kaučič (who slowed in second part of leg because of tiredeness), Peljhan and others. I was surprised by Orsak being on 5th place (he wasn`t looking so fast), but then he sadly crashed on last stage of the day.
Hope for another great rallying day tomorrow and keeping fingers crossed for Pech to secure his first win on slovenian soil.
I was on Čeče too,it is a very nice stage,excellent for spectators.
Lamonatos and Kuss crash was nasty,they ended way down and picked up a few trees by the way.Im glad they are both OK.The gravel part was really tricky,6 teams retired on the first 3 corners of the gravel(Lamonato,Kus,Vidmar,Pisano,Grendene,Orsak)
Tallinn Rally victory went to the Finnish pair of Jukka Hiltunen / Jarkko Kalliolepo (Ford Focus WRC). Second were Estonians Ott Tänak / Raigo Mõlder (Subaru Impreza WRX STI) and third another Finnish pair Toni Klemets / Jani Laaksonen (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9). Klemets won the rally last year.
Results are here and a selection of pictures can be found here :)
For Tom206wrc: Russian driver Radik Shaymiev was 22th with his Peugeot 207 Super 2000 in Talinn Rally. ;)
Pille, where can I see the retirements and if possible the retirement reasons?
matSLO: Orsak is a young driver who makes a big progress in every rally. He doesn't use drifts when it is not nercessary but he is fast especialy in fast sections ;)
I see Shaymiev was back in his 207 S2000 ;)