So WRC2 did manage to turn evenw more ridiculous after all.
Gryazin will get 4 powerstage points for this...
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So WRC2 did manage to turn evenw more ridiculous after all.
Gryazin will get 4 powerstage points for this...
Gryazin driving really slow through. Some mechanical problems...
Looks like he is in road mode
Is it a powersteering problem?
WRC2 - if you are last (finisher) in your category, you are more than 43min behind the leader (who also have lost few minutes)... and you'll get 2nd place.
And some points on PS:DQuote:
Originally Posted by meh
Well on the other hand this is the first time this year that WRC2 car won't be fastest Rally2 on a PS, and only second time when it's not fastest in the rally.
It was just the combination of lowest number of starters this year and massive attrition.
It’s had a hard life that car!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Huttunen also in troubles. Stalled engine in a hairpin and possibly having power steering issues too. Ridiculous.
Everytime I write it's getting ridiculous it gets even worse....
Next is one retiring after PS and the second one getting DQed...
Loubet is awfully slow too lol
Loubet also driving like a snail... now stopped to change a tyre.
Can't drive fast with broken tire.
did they attach the tire?
Ostberg was allegedly speculating that Gryazin was running out of fuel hence why he drove slowly in the road mode. He refused to comment what was the issue.
Lol so Gryazin was running out of fuel....
(insert funny comment about electric cars)
Could be fuel amount miscalculation at refuel
Of course it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matchbox826
Losing almost 2 secs to Tanak on the last circuit part for Ogier.
Evans just created an obstacle for others behind him...
it also contains this slippery gravel partQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
It'll be repositioned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Organizers have time to adjust the tyrebulk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Toyota’s look to be really understeering…
Tänak have driven 7 PowerStage this year and won 4 of them.
nice rally winner donuts! perfect weekend for Neuville-Wydaeghe
Congratulations to Neuville.
He handled the home rally pressure perfectly, with seemingly no moments. Compared to Tanak in Estonia it's quite a surprising difference.
Another Congratulations to Breen. Imo his best rally ever. For first time showing it might be good idea to run him on other than fast gravel/snow events. Off course he had lots of experience here even being the only guy driving a rally here last year in WRC car, but still he performed. Makes the silly season interesting again. Will Adamo sign him for more starts (maybe even dropping Sordo completely?) or will MSport take him at their expense? Would he want to "risk" MSport if he gets offered say 10/14 starts at Hyundai?
Disappointment of the rally is all Toyotas, but Ogier especially. Nevertheless he got ok points...like he usually does.
This result is good for the championship. If Toyotas won again, there would be no interest for the rest of the season. Great job from Neuville!
And now Greece!!!
after 1 year and 7 months finally a win for Thierry. Congrats to all of his fans and belgian people, great drive
maybe next year the rally wil be more interesting when all the drivers have done it now but i would prefer Rally Germany back instead of this
The rally itself was quite bad for me.
The biggest problem beeing how similar basically all stages were on first two days. Every second corner and junction looked the same. Combined with 1s differences per stage and no big position changes it wasn't very exciting. ( Would likely have been very different if it rained).
The last day was nice and saved it a bit, but too few kms. If it should run again the route should be diversified as much as possible. For example 2 night stages, one very long stage (like 35km), trying to combined roads of same character or even moving one more day to some other part of Belgium with different roads.
Germany with the 3 different stage types and amazing views is completely different level.
Ogier has been weighed 3 times already 1 kg under limit..
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That´s true! The Mosel region is special...Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
I actually enjoyed the rally a lot, and the views also. Sure it wasn't as action packed as it is usually in rallies like Deutschland or other tarmac events but you do have to bare in mind, only the top 2 had previous experience in this rally so catching them would always be a tough task. If anything the last day was a let down, didn't enjoy seeing the stages and the cars going into the Spa circuit just looked ridiculous, a part from taking more money from the fans, I see no reason why the crews need to be dragged for 318 km's for just 40km's of competitive action. Not very eco-friendly but hey at least we get hybrid cars next year so we can say we're a green, Eco caring championship. It felt, and looked like a joke, if they can make it 3 days out of 3 in Ypres, with (proper) night stages, would be nice to see this rally again in this championship.
Neuville doing donuts after the finish line, what do the rules say about turning back between the finish line and time control? At least you're not allowed to stop during that.
( :D )
That's actually the main specific of the event and what makes it difficult. It all looks the same and you need to trust the notes totally becasuse there is often nothing along the road to memorize. Also usually you can guess where the road is leading from the character of the countryside, houses etc. Here you get random corners and junctions with no logic whatsoever, sometimes among high corn where you drive like in a labyrinth of sort. I changed my view on the event completely when I first went there and drove some stages myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
What I liked about the circuit part is exactly what Porter said. That they didn't place any chicanes/artificial stuff on the circuit itself. Specially the long turns of the first stage were nice to watch. Combined with the nice and tricky sections on normal roads it was cool. But off course wouldn't be nice to have whole stage on the circuit.
Basically the stages showing the whole point of rallying. The can drive like crazy on normal roads..and it can do that on the circuit as well.
It can be difficult and challenging and at the same time boring to watch...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Onboards were ok, but outside cameras were massively boring to me. Specially watching some dusty corners where WRCs went at 50 kph.. The spectacle was missing.
That's probably also about where they place the cameras. They should have asked Tommeke or some other our Belgian members to tell them where to place cameras. In the past I enjoyed being there a lot. It is a crazy spectacular event if you do your homework and select places properly.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Maybe he just took a big dump...Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
On the first stage they had picked a section of the circuit with tight bends and it looked good, but on power stage it was just long straights (looking like driving alone on a motorway) and hairpins.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight