Then is just my link that doesnt work then :(Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
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Then is just my link that doesnt work then :(Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Mikko wakes up :) :) :)
Novikov out of road
Not continuing :(
Latvala almost equal with privateer Mads(+2,6) after 4 stages inside his home without problems.Not good.
Lappi very fast at last split
Lappi seems to be massive talent :)
No live text?
is he better than Nikara? Pitty that guy hasn t got a good back up to see him with proper machinery.Again equal with fastest s2000 cars!!Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
edit big moment for Nikara,out of road,just some panels rear right side.Damn i jinx him
Good fight between Ogier and Lappi...
Wrong event to judge the performance of any fin though to draw general conclusions.... many tomato cans performed well here and they were nothing on other events.
Atko is also on a good pace given the circumsatnces...he beats the future media champion Ketomaa...
Yes, Nikara has had some very impressive stage times, but as you told yourself that he had off in the last stage. He obviously is overdriving his car.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Novikov back on the move in Jukojärvi.
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Novikov has rolled over, continuing for now to the service
Where did Nikara go off? He has a time for SS5
That is really odd. In general Fords are little slower than Citroens, but Solberg is faster than him today.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Traffic rather jammed at Urria exit...
Novikov. He was this > < close from losing it already at Mikko's jump. Longest jump and landed far more on left than any other driver.
he has been going well, is he any relation of Ralliart Test driver Lassi Lappi?Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Ogier only needs to make small error and Lappi and Paddon will pounce
My prediction of how the rally continues. 1. Loeb and Hirvonen continues to show amazing speed. 2. Ford drivers try to match the speed and do mistakes, looses some minutes. 3. Hirvonen is allowed to fight for the win, because loeb has good lead in championship and it's home rally for Hirvonen. 4.Loeb and Hirvonen is 2 or 3 minutes in front of everybody before last stage. 5. Loeb stil wins in pure competition and wins powrstage also.
Paddon on the side of the road somewhere before the service, bonnet open.
World Rally Championship - News - Paddon reveals engine woe in Finland
Paddon roadside on liason, bonnet up... Problems?
Ogier knows these stages way better than Lappi. This is his second wrc rally ever. To match and be faster than Ogier is very promising.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
well that sure sucks. fingers crossed some Kiwi ingenuity will get them going.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
At least Novikov made it to the service.
Stage end:
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My disappointment of the rally is Ketomaa. He has not been on the pace this rally and in NZ he was quite disappointing. Did not expect to see Atko faster than him
looool...Quote:
Originally Posted by a.f.f.
I have said from the beginning that Latvala is sooooo overated. He rarely wins and he crashes all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
I think it's time be realistic when peoples are claiming to put back Atko to manu seat. Simply not quick enough here and was not quick in Mexico (I know private etc but still)Quote:
Originally Posted by Plan9
Lasse Lampi and Esapekka Lappi. Different family names.Quote:
Originally Posted by smokin'joe
The truth hurts eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
There is one explanation: DMACQuote:
Originally Posted by Plan9
yes ... Laaaaal...Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
true, my mistake. last seen Lasse mentioned a long time ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
I disagree. He's going fairly well in a car that he has relatively no seat time in.Quote:
Originally Posted by amilk
im Enjoying Lappi smelling Ogiers Back... lol that is a nice fight there. whats up with latvala.. i guess he is taking it easy waiting for the other stages
Please enlighten me what is so hilarious with my post?Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Let me first bend it to you from barbwire. Lappi has started rallying 2009. Before that he was karting and rally sprinting. This is his first year with 4wd machinery. This NORF is his first or second NORF, maybe someone can clarify it. In Finnish national rallies, the stages of NORF is not used, especially in the summer time.
I counted that this is Ogier's fifth NORF. Surely, with the math of sheep herder, you must realize that Ogier has more experience of these stages than Lappi ??
Anyway, enough of you, Lappi is nowhere near a complete rally driver and surely his pace won't be this good in foreign rallies to him BUT to be in par with Ogier here, is very promising and will be a boost to his selfconfidence for the future. I'm very happy that we have such a talent in making and maybe Lappi will be a part of WRC stuff in the future. :)
In the interviews he has said he has tried everything so far, from aggressive to more tidy style, so far without a result. On the local rally radio they mentioned that they won´t give Latvala any splits in the next few stages, so that he can concentrate purely on the driving. Playstation era, eh.Quote:
Originally Posted by andyone
Latvala needs a new setup for his brain......
so in other words you are saying that a professional rally driver who is considered a future finnish star (No 3478) hasn't practised the worlds most famous stages all these years ??? i am not saying he did illegal recce but i really doubt he has not run these stages a million times before or at least more times than Ogier.... and even if he did not... the stages in finland are so unique that it is not really necessary to do the stages themselves to learn them....Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
Of course it is neccassery to do them to learn them, there is NOWHERE like Finland, so how are you meant to be quick on stages that you have never driven anything like before?!
I am a member of the Nicky Grist Young Co-Driver Academy here in the UK and spent a day with Nicky and John MaCrone 2 weeks ago, Nicky was telling us stories of how he did the rally with Juha Kankkunen and he was reading the notes, but Juha didnt need them because he knew the roads and the cuts etc. he also told us of stories of how they did 1 recce pass and then went playing golf while everyone else carried on recceimng, experience (and seat time) are everything in world rallying!