Rallye Wrc Monte Carlo 2012

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Ford team chief Malcolm Wilson added: “Stage 11 worked really well for us, but on stage 12, the conditions had deteriorated quite a lot since the [safety] crews had gone through it. Petter had a huge moment very early on, resulting in a 100-metre slide - as similarly happened to some other drivers - and after that, he sensibly decided to just get through to the end of the stage. He wanted to protect his podium rather than risk anything rash. Going forward, stage 13 this afternoon is likely to have rain, and of course we've still got the famous passes through the Col de Turini to go, so I very much believe anything can still happen."

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That is not true from what I saw at the last part of SS12.

Nothing wrong with the duration of the rally.
Just what happend prior to the event had those negative
impact as a whole (no live coverage), and the weather itself.
An impact , that could be well ignored if part of the stages were snow-covered.
Picture it.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

That is not true from what I saw at the last part of SS12.

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And you saw what?

So what to say about today...

SS12 some 7 km before finish (cca 1 km after they go to small road). That was the craziest conditions I ever saw in any rally! There was a thick layer of ice with ruts and rain was falling down on that, so water flew in ruts and the top ice was so slippery that people were crashing there while walking (and I'm absolutely sure it was like that when ice crews were going through). As a result it was quite terrible to watch, all 4WD except few did it very slowly in ruts without any sliding. 2WD were mostly more spectacular. Petter had some small off or spin few corners before us. We could hear that. This was for sure much more exciting to follow on internet results than live.

SS13 a hairpin just after Laborel. Not much to say, nice spot to watch but a place which actually says nothing about performance.

Our video will be online hopefully later tonight.

In those poor times with no live broadcasts,
live comments are another way to get the feeling of the atmosphere around the stage.
Priceless.

If more people are able to write up real-time experiences
that would be something like a live-text broadcast for nowdays
and a history book for times to come.
I'll publish the e-book.
Patented! :D

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Originally Posted by danon

If more people are able to write up real-time experiences
that would be something like a live-text broadcast for nowdays
and a history book for times to come.
I'll publish the e-book.
Patented! :D

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Maybe you and Hartsuvuori could write an e-book, he spoke of writing a book about famous stages a while ago! :)

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Originally Posted by Mirek

So what to say about today...

SS12 some 7 km before finish (cca 1 km after they go to small road). That was the craziest conditions I ever saw in any rally! There was a thick layer of ice with ruts and rain was falling down on that, so water flew in ruts and the top ice was so slippery that people were crashing there while walking (and I'm absolutely sure it was like that when ice crews were going through). As a result it was quite terrible to watch, all 4WD except few did it very slowly in ruts without any sliding. 2WD were mostly more spectacular. Petter had some small off or spin few corners before us. We could hear that. This was for sure much more exciting to follow on internet results than live.

SS13 a hairpin just after Laborel. Not much to say, nice spot to watch but a place which actually says nothing about performance.

Our video will be online hopefully later tonight.

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On SS 12 I was few hundred metres later than Mirek. I was in a corner which was full of ice. All WRC cars were driving really slowly, lot of 2WD cars were faster in this passage (I was making own timing). From WRC only Prokop and surprisingly Nobre were spectacular. But other drivers were much more interesting - Andersson, both Burri's, Melicharek, Fontaine, Robert, Chardonnet...

Bad and good tire choice and the feelings alone are big factors.
Good job, Pluto. :up:

While watching a video I noticed a drawback
about the duration of Rally Monte Carlo 2012.
Can you imagine what will those superstitious
among the pilots will look like in five days not touching a razor blade, no shave at all... :D