My most curious photo of the rally :D
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My most curious photo of the rally :D
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8374/8...116ee718_b.jpg
I don't know what you think, but Ogier winning the power stage shows a lot of the fighting spirit he is on, and what are his real intentions for this season...
VW will not fool us again with fake targets, for me it's the 2 titles this year, or nothing.
See you in GB for a new WC.
So, Rally Sweden has been driven. A few thoughts of the rally. First of all, like I suspected, VW was/is ready for a title. With that amount of testing, the speed and reliability will anough for them to grab the title this year. All that talk of few podium places at the latter part of the season was just mindgames. Unfortunately Latvala was believing it. Now he saw that with Polo one can win. And that one was Ogier. Latvala is prone to fall in that kind of problems. Now his strategy will be messed. He can't drive Polo with winning pace but he will try and that will lead nothing good :mark: I suspect over-trying and crashes. About other Finns..... Hirvonen.... I can't believe what I saw. Yes, a mistake is acceptable when you try but if you compare Hirvonen to for instance Grönholm or Solberg in the past, when they had an off early on the rally and they had absolutely no chance to points, they drove like hell because they had nothing to loose. They flew over the stages and made the rest top times. What did Hirvonen? Cruised through the rally, made avarage 9th positinion stage times and it seemed that he didn't even try. Or at least I hope he didn't even try because if he did, it's all over for him. With that kind of effort, Hirvonen won't win a single rally this year. Hänninen.... Well, Hänninen was like I suspected. No offense to anyone but it seem that this was the pace he can offer to WRC. :mark: And that is not enough, I think anyone can agree that. Nikara was trying but unfortunately he was trying too much. That can happen when you push. Which leads me to Pontus Tindemand. I want to see that kind of attitude with Finns. It doesn't matter it was his homeland where he drove, he showed he was fast and made some excellent stage times and kept the car on road. Very goosd performance so far it lasted. And Ogier.... I have to tell I was suprised. I knew Ogier can be fast but i didn't expect he was that fast. Now that VW is consistent and Ogier that fast, there wont be anyone to challenge him. I can tell you guys this early that he will be the new champion. No way Latvala, Östberg or Hirvonen will win him. Last time I saw someone was faster than Ogier with similar machinery was NORF last year when Lappi fought against him ;) Bring him on and we'lll have a decent championship :)
A.F.F:
I can only agree with you!
This video includes some aerial footage from the Drone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGeLCSGZA1A
Massive slides, big jumps, Tamrazov's roll, a Norwegian song, Swedish drunk girls...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWQekAlnrqQ
The footage from the drone is superb!
The last video of the Swedish Rally by Motorsportfilmer.net is finished, hope will have a look :)
https://vimeo.com/59774105
(Music ends at 1:30 for you who hate that :) )
Everything i post is on youtube too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QJAeELiSbMhttp://www.raceinfo.no/temp/tn_Skjer...2002.02.24.jpg