Rally Sweden 2013

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

Yes, I assume you were one of the 3 English speaking guys? You were the one who had that crazy photo of Novikov? Unfortunately I just missed that moment... That photo should be linked on the topic here. ;)

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Hello Tom,

That is correct we were the 3 English speaking guys, I was at the last corner while the other guys were a couple of corners back. I arrived at the bend to see Hanninen go round, he was flying. Then I went over to the inside of the corner and the next car round was Novikov! WOW, it was the craziest thing I had seen all rally, and I got very lucky with the photo.

I will post it up on here once I have uploaded the photos from my camera - still haven't had time yet.
My friend has started to add some of his photos to our Facebook page
facebook.com/gritpicsrally

What a truly amazing event, breathtaking!

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Originally Posted by danon

Loeb uses Jedi mind tricks to Neuville -> Rally Sweden 2013

Great vid... :D

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Haha, I mostly watch the WRC guys, they make the sport look so easy, well most of them do anyway. In this video you can see how truly difficult rally can be.

Here's one hour of footage. You can watch all the cars, including historics!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8eGP...layer_embedded

Finally got together my video from rally Sweden 2013. Had some problems with camera batteries on 2nd day, but still I think some great footage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujKp2K_GZKY

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Originally Posted by Kielder

Being 4th or being 1st...

https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...67844564_n.jpg

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I just whish the rules would make the cars such that Latvala style would be faster. Not because I'd like him to win, but because it would make rallying so much more fun and exiting to watch again

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Originally Posted by COD

I just whish the rules would make the cars such that Latvala style would be faster. Not because I'd like him to win, but because it would make rallying so much more fun and exiting to watch again

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I would rather say that the driving style, or timing, of the driver is what you see on those two pics. Of course as mentioned above it´s also a matter of settings of car. Rumours says that JML had Ogiers settings at the end of the rally.

Maybe we don´t even have the key of which driver is fastest in that particular corner... It´s hard to tell from a picture though.

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Originally Posted by Fly_Half

Forgot to say in my original post, we were a bit surprised at being asked to pay 50 SEK to park at every stage when we'd already paid 500 SEK for a Rally Pass! Ridiculous if you ask me.

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Pretty common practice actually. Just the "parking price" differs.

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

I would rather say that the driving style, or timing, of the driver is what you see on those two pics. Of course as mentioned above it´s also a matter of settings of car. Rumours says that JML had Ogiers settings at the end of the rally.

Maybe we don´t even have the key of which driver is fastest in that particular corner... It´s hard to tell from a picture though.

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I have to disagree somewhat. It was unneccesary to introduce big wings for current WRC's. With S2000 size wings. Being sideways would affect downforce less. And they should limit suspension travel, that would bring more sideways action and slow cars on corners thus making the sport safer.

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

I would rather say that the driving style, or timing, of the driver is what you see on those two pics. Of course as mentioned above it´s also a matter of settings of car. Rumours says that JML had Ogiers settings at the end of the rally.

Maybe we don´t even have the key of which driver is fastest in that particular corner... It´s hard to tell from a picture though.

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I was on that particular place from those photos. The fastest in that corner was Hirvonen, but he was too wide and was in the snowbank with the back, then the front went to the snowbank, and he lost a little bit of time there. And Latvala was defenetely faster than Ogier... But after that corner they had to brake for a hairpin immediately. In the exit of the hairpin JML was too much inside the hairpin and lost a lot of traction because he was too much in the snow. In that place it was not needed to push it to the maximum in the fast right corner, because they had to brake immediately after it for the hairpin (Ogier, Loeb and Ostberg took it easy). Rallying is not just about pushing it to the limit everywhere, it's also about being smart and seeing where you can gain a bit of time without risking too much and where to lift because you can not win anything. That's probably the main difference between Loeb, Ogier, Ostberg (I think he is driving smart too), and Latvala and Hirvonen, to give an example. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OzKBD7cHp9w

Very interesting method :)