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WRC Rally Poland 2024 | Flat Out Action | 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8cZ5UCzEwU
I am not an expert, but I was on the stages and can say that Sesks' Puma didn't look or sound much different that the other Rally1 cars. And in his hands it didn't look slower for sure :)Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
Listen to security who often wanted you to stay on the outside of corners instead of the inside....? Like at the Kaito corner there was a stone bank on the inside which would have been a better place, half slow corner so not much chance a car could climb the stone bank we were on together with the marshal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backa
I heard several people had this experience, not sure what was going on with that.
This is only rumors and what i heard so don't take it facts.
SS3 was cancelled because of people on the two crests in the tight forest 200m before my first clip on SS6 (4:45 if you watch Neuville) but it's not a spot i would judge as that bad, if the entry to the jump was faster then for sure yes. Police was put there for 2nd run, i was 50m from the road in a really bad spot 1.5km earlier on SS3.
SS6 was stopped for Mikkelsen because of an ATV crossing the road.
I don't think i was in any really bad spots this time, bit close behind a big tree on a random fast right left in SS13 since i had to find a new plan and walked 2.5km in from the start because of tape too far from the road to see anything at all in another spot.
When the green tape is 30m inside a corner in the middle of the field you often can only see half the car in Poland, running the event later in the year when the fields are cut would help a lot, also it doesn't seem like they use edge trimmers on tractors in Poland like we do in the norther countries so bushes are so far into the road in places it makes it difficult.
If you saw the Munster jump in SS4/7 it's crazy how they put the tape on the left, straight on 3-5m from the road where people were 5 rows deep, it's a spot even i wouldn't stand, also because of the big rocks in the road there.
On the right of that jump you had to be 30-50m from the road, so low you couldn't see much, it was so randomly placed in many spots, also on the outside of a tricky tarmac corner after a straight in SS9/13.
Agree..Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
In my (limited) experience of attending WRC events, it was always like this. Sometimes you were not allowed to stand in the safest possible space for no reason at all, some marshalls wouldn't let you walk along the road between passes,... And sometimes you could have stood in really stupid and dangerous places with no one batting an eye.
Colin Clark's Rally Poland driver ratings are available at:
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/dirtf...river-ratings/
I personally never read those articles, but this time I went in to see what he thinks about Martins Sesks. Clark says it's one of the most impressive debuts he has ever seen.
Marshalls are not there to think or analyze what makes sense and what does not. They are there to follow orders and do their job - keep people in allowed areas.Quote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
Anyone who hasn't driven a Rally1 before has to be highly-praised for such a debut, no matter whether they have experience on such roads or in other rally cars, or a good road position.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
The difference is vast and Sesks did an amazing job.
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/dirtf...river-ratings/
3/10 for Katsuta was generous. He has some serious analysing to do of this awful drive and cant have any repeat if he wants to be taken seriously as a top driver going forward.
Not to take much from Sesks but the "Rally1" he drove is likely easier to drive than both 2017-2021 cars and the actual Rally1.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
The 2017 had fancy diffs all around with tons of things you could change. So fastest setup could need lot of experience. More aero than current cars on top of that.
Rally1 without hybrid that he drove removes all the focus on hybrid (how and when to brake, when not to touch the brakes at all etc.) as well as traction issues when hybrid kicks in on loose gravel. (Sordo was complaining about that a lot the first year).
Yes he did a great job first time in a very fast car, but this way he also avoided a lot of issues that all other first time starters in the top category had the last 7 years.
Evans gets extra points from him as always, even though he didn't score much or show top speed (I'd rank him as 4th fastest of the weekend) when he had a good opportunity to gain on title rivals. 7/10 at best from me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Tanak- either he should not rank him or give 9/10. (9 due to not winning PS). He did the best (almost) out of what he could do. The ranking should be for performance not things you cannot do anything with .
Mikkelsen also 9/10 due to Saturday. As I wrote on twitter this same Colin Clark gave Suninen 8/10 for running 5-6th whole rally on his first start on gravel in Estonia last year. This was Mikkelsens first top category start on gravel in 5 years.
Katsuta and Munster -1 point each.
Why anyone spends time with Colin's ranking is beyond me. It's completely worthless.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
ma vidéo de ce merveilleux rallye de Pologne , appréciez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAXAaFEaCc8
For me it might be worthless to read your rants about EVs from a country with basically the lowest number of EVs in Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Yet I do it for entertainment. Same with with Colins rankings and basically this whole forum.
Was it true that if one more stage had been cancelled the event would be over? Hear some rumors on the stages
There's way more content and thought on Mirek's "rants" than in Colin's rating and writing. And don't start with the EV's as their popularity and sales is declining and many manufacturers are dropping them from their line.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
We dodged a bullet then :DQuote:
Originally Posted by SubaruNorway
Yeah, not sure what the points rule vs distance is now.
Just before the start of powerstage there was a marshal with heat stroke, people ran to try and stop the last 0 car and wave the police heli down, he got some help after 30min when the medics came walking
WRC] 80. Rally Poland 2024 as we saw it
https://www.facebook.com/Videovmv/vi...35240694065395
I believe rules are same as the last few years:
75% of total stage length = full points
50-75% = half points
25-50 % = 1/3 points
<25% = no points
Didn't check if it was getting close to 75%. There is also the question whether the stage where 3-4 cars ran actually count as cancelled. I don't think so. The one stage where only one car got rednflag definitely doesn't.
So these rumors seem to be on the same level as Sesks getting hybrid for Sunday.
There is a lot more interesting content for a rally follower in reading the opinions of people who actually work in the rallying "business" on the rally that they just were at, than in reading people posting meaningless laughs about others.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
Sounds like 'behave yourself kids or no sweeties'.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Stages are only fully cancelled if they don’t run. If some cars get through and nominal times issued, it isn’t cancelled.
In this particular case quite many forumers here are flabbergasted that someone with such "insider" knowledge can produce horse manure content week in week out.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
I'll pick Mirek's and most of forumers content any day over this so called insider's.
After saying that his recent rating wasn't all that bad but I couldn't care less as well. I'm actually amazed that I even read his ratings after a year or so.
My pictures from Rally Poland 2024: https://eu.zonerama.com/TomasR/Album/11722884
Beautiful pictures! thanks for sharing them!Quote:
Originally Posted by ReRe