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Lithuanian driver Vytautas vedas in ''Kauno ruduo - 2013'' rally destroyed his Evo X. Main thing - both are ok.
In Denmark, looks like Kim Madsen(Brian's brother) becomes a new Peugeot DK driver and will use a 208 R2 on next week's danish championship event :confused:
Confirmed, press release was about a week or so ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
The car has been in Denmark since early in the year, but was driven for the first time in competition at Fårvang three weeks ago - by Brian..
With the press release, Kim said that Brian had been very positive about the car.
The Maxi was to expensive to run apparently, spare parts are harder and more expensive to find, so the swap was made.
The deal is for the rest of this season and all of 2014.
And remember, Brian owns a major Peugeot dealership, and has bought Jens Ole Kristiansens (Peugeot Dealer Team boss) dealerships as well. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m91sq1lM2jg#t=72Quote:
Originally Posted by garais22
from Martin Kangur facebook: Dear fans! We are happy to announce that Martin Kangur and Andres Ots will participate in Rally Kurzeme on 30.-31. august and ERC Rally Poland on 13.-15. september. Car will be Ford Fiesta R5!
Great time set by Egon Kaur on ss1 before retiring with gearbox problems. The guy needs a second chance at higher level. He's only 23.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
What do you think?
I think he is fast indeed.And moreover. I remember when he was driving in WRC Academy. Then their boss told that it is amazing that when other drivers come to service at the end of day (he meant academy winner Breen, spanish hot shoes etc.) their cars were really in bad shape (partly detroyed) and a lot of work was needed in service. Then Egon came to service. He was setting almost identical times (sometimes little slower) and his car needed some washing and polishing only. I would love to see him in JWRC again indeed, he has a lot of potential!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fly
Bruno Magalhćes will drive a Peugeot 208 R2 next portuguese event, Rally de Mortįgua (asphalt)
Alexander Saliuk (KZH) (won Rally Bulgaria this year) will test his brand new R5 on Rally Sliven (BG) next week. I expect good fight between him and Dimitar Iliev (Fabia S2000).
Here is the entry list (7 foreign crews, not bad) - http://rallyslivenbg.com/docs/ENTRY-...EN-2013-EN.pdf
Itirenary - http://rallyslivenbg.com/docs/ITINERARY-2013-SLIVEN.pdf
Just one remark, Alexander Saliuk is Ukrainian driver, but is using Kazakh license this year.
"Rally Kurzeme 2013", Latvian championship leg and Estonian as well, this weekend - friday and saturday, shakedown today in 16:00(CET). Entries - http://autorally.lv/?l=2&m=2 - Kahle (GER) on ancient Octavia WRC, Kangur on R5, Tanak vs. Lukyanuk. Great battle ahead, first twelves in list - everyone is fighter for podium.
In Denmark, the roadbook for the fourth round of the championship has been published. The race has been promoted 'in secret' as one of the most challenging stage-wise for many years, and in an area almost never used for rallying before. When I say in secret, I mean by word-of-mouth from the organisers, not through press releases - then again, that's how it's done here, you rarely see press releases from the races themselves. Basically, none of the drivers are from anywhere close to the area of the stages, and new stages, so should be everyone starting from scratch on pacenotes purely.
I will be marshalling on stages 1+4 and later on when the stage is reused and expanded into stages 8+10. Will try and do a little update during lunch, if we aren't swamped with the changes to the stage.
Looking forward to seeing the following:
- will Esben Hegelund build on the confidence from having won an event (he won round 3)?
- how will the top guys respond to longer stages than is normal here? Christian Jensen in particular..
- will anyone be able to follow the foreigners? Joachim Grahn (Focus WRC05) and Rune Danneborg (Fiesta S2000) will be here to challenge.
- how will the speed compare between group N and s2000? Tim Svanholt seems to build on his pace every time he's in the car.
- will Kim Madsen be able to win 2wd outright (r2 and r3)? I expect him to take class 2, but will he be able to challenge Hammer and McBride in faster cars?
- Morten Karl or Kenneth Madsen for Tuned National? Kenneth has a brand new engine, claiming 20bhp more and 'significantly' more torque.. And the race is called Suzuki Rally, should be extra motivation.
Should be interesting, weather forecast says cloudy around 17 degrees all day, with scattered mini-showers during the day. Should be a day on slicks all the way through, but this is the Danish weather service we are talking about.. might as well end up being a torrential downpour all day. :)
And for interested parties, here's the roadbook with stage maps.
http://www.rallydanmark.dk/DM4/Sydhavs_rutebog_13.pdf
Hellendoorn Rally in the Netherlands looks like to be a good one this year, 3 weeks from now.
3x Ford Fiesta WRC: Dennis Kuipers, Peter Versluis, Bas van Kamperdijk
1x Ford Focus WRC: Erik van Loon
1x Citroėn DS3 WRC: Peter van Merksteijn
1x Skoda Fabia WRC: Gert Huzink (probably..is driving Amsterdam Rallysprint this weekend with that car)
1x Mitsubishi Lancer WRC: Bob de Jong (probably)
1x Citroėn C4 WRC: Jeroen Swaanen (probably)
Some more WRC's could be entering, but I think these will be it for now.
Why Nicolas Althaus back at the wheels of a 207 S2000 on next week's Rally Valli Cuneesi(italian round of swiss rallies championship) ??? Has Skoda Switzerland stopped :confused: :confused:
I'm looking at the results of Kurzeme rally and Lukyanuk has a minute penalty in the first stage. Without it he would be 2-nd overall after 7 stages today. Another very impressive drive if he can keep it on the road until the end.
Mads Ostberg fastest on shakedown today. Rally Telemark in Norway starts saturday
Rally Telemark: Tider fra shakedown
He went to swim with his car in previuos rally (into the pond) and sadly it looks like it is not good for the cars.. Today he had also some probems.. So, not good to park your car into the lake :-PQuote:
Originally Posted by rage82
Apparently clutch problems in SS12, it seems like he won't finish the rally :(
In Denmark victory for IB Kragh in front of Christian Jensen and Asben Hegelund ;)
Full results on RallyResult.dk - Som at vęre der selv
Firstly, the rally was (at least for me personally) a bit overshadowed by Klaus Hammer, who had a big off about 6-700 metres after my marshalls post on stage 5. Cut down two trees before hitting a third tree that stopped the car. Really fast place, probably 150-160 kph on a very bumpy road, he lost the rear in a left 4-ish corner, and hit the trees almost immediately. Stage was stopped, as the reports were that it looked really bad, and that both were trapped in the car. Two ambulances and a medical helicopter was called, and were there very quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Luckily, the injuries were fairly minor considering the off, Klaus was flown to hospital with a reported broken shoulder and collarbone, codriver could get out himself and was taken to hospital to be checked over, but no apparent major injuries to him. Very good news considering the reports of the first 10-15 minutes after the crash.
The race itself:
Indeed a victory for Ib, but a very close fight all the way to the final metres of the event.
All day Esben actually looked a lot quicker and more efficient in his driving than Ib, but on the final stage it was clear who had the advantage. Where I timed them (~12 k's into the stage) Ib was 4 seconds up on Esben and equal with Christian. Christian looked stressed all day, and the car was very nervous to look at.
Ib, very smooth, very boring to look at, but got the stage times he needed.
Positives:
Morten Karl! That car just sounds sooooooooo good! And goes like the clappers too, holy moly it's a fast car, with a driver that's not afraid of it! Very impressive, beating all cars except S2000 on stages that were veeery fast and flowing. A pure joy to watch, nothing else can be said.
Jacob Jensen - results might not show it, but the kid certainly does try.. both runs on my second stage of the day (8 and 10) he almost went off in a mega-fast right 4+, and both times he saved it to no apparent loss of time. Very entertaining, although I think he uses underwear as fast as tyres. :eek:
Kjeld Seidler. He might not be super fast, but you can see improvements all the time, and it isn't exactly a perfect car for rallying.. positive attitude, also when I had to stop him after the Hammer off. And the car does have a very crisp sound, a welcome change to the many screaming maxi's and r-cars.
Jesper Bisted. The corner Jacob Jensen almost went off at twice, Bisted did it - and promptly went about 50 metres into a (luckily) newly harvested corn field.. and kept his foot in it until he had righted the ship and made his way back to the stage. Spectators certainly enjoyed it! Driving looked good the rest of the day as well from him.
Steen Andersen. I can't exactly be called his biggest fan, admittedly - but good to see him out of the old Evo 7 and into an Evo X.
Negatives:
Tim Svanholt: Problems all day for the championship leading driver. Got stuck in 5th gear on stage 2 and then had further problems later on as well.
The foreign invaders: Rune Danneborg broke the radiator on stage 2, and Joachim Grahn blew the turbo right next to me also on stage 2 - end of the foreign challenge, but also revealed what nice guys Joachim and Per Andersson are.. they had just retired, and were now stuck in the middle of the stage. What do they do? They signed a boat load of autographs to the local kids, and let them all have a go at sitting in the car! :)
Ib Kragh: He did win the rally, but my gosh he knocked over my chicane every single time he passed it!! And once he took down three barrels in one pass - hard work to fix. ;)
Delays: A lot of them, but then again - having the radio to listen in on meant that I had plenty of information, and most of the delays were caused by one man complaining all .. the .. time! Too bad, but nothing that we could do about it. The race director was out twice to talk to him.. to absolutely no avail unfortunately.
Think that was it, all in all it was an enjoyable day, and the stages looked very technically challenging, even though there were a couple of sections with several seconds of 's2000 on limiter'-syndrome.. :D
So Umberto Scandola is the 2013 Italian Champion, do we already know the name of any other national champions?
I see Gross won all the Estonian championship rounds, so did Loix in the Belgian championship... and also Juha Salo should be close getting another title, am I right?
Loix has a 5 on 5 now, and want to goes for a 8 on 8. Should be possible! So the title will surely go his way!Quote:
Originally Posted by focus206
Kajetanowicz in Poland also almost champion already, huge, huge miracle needed for Chuchala for overtake him.Quote:
Originally Posted by focus206
To won the national title already by the end of August (start of the second half of the seson) definetely meens that championship itself was booring, without competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by br21
Quote:
Originally Posted by ChristianArp
And what about Kim Madsen for his first outing in the official 208 R2(finished 12th overall) :confused:
Rally Kurzeme-2013
Spin, off, some close calls, jump, water's plash.
KKSF HD video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F42HRSdshwI
A very serious accident happened during the Amsterdam Rallysprint today. A car crashed into spectators, causing some very bad injuries according to multiple sources (more is not known at this point).
This is a picture from the scene.
http://www.imgdumper.nl/uploads7/522...-amsterdam.jpg
When will this end... :(
That water plash aren't natural?.. that water flowQuote:
Originally Posted by KKSF
Tarmac and speed - versus handling of car in hands of drivers not able to come out good from hazardous situations. (Having said without knowing circumstances today - but generally speaking tarmac gives a much more dangerous way of doing rallies. Especially when there“s a combination of high speeds)
The brakes didn't work anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Correct, it's manmade.Quote:
Originally Posted by svstock
In Austria Raimund Baumschlager is already champion 2013 (for the 11th time) - a very similar situation to other countries with the dominating drivers being older experienced, but still very fast drivers, who“s international chances/times are more or less gone, except when international rallies take place in their home countries (e.g. now Pech at Barum)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ucci
Drove decently I guess, was very obvious that he was uncertain of the car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Spoke to him Friday night during the 'rallyshow' (basically stage 3+6 used as shakedown) and he said it was really fun to drive, but that it was very strange to him still. Friday night was his first run at real speed, we don't really have testing here.
He said that he needed to get used to the fact that the car feels the same inside, but is a lot narrower than the Maxi - and that he no longer needs to ease on the throttle.. :rolleyes:
He did look nervous on the high speed sections where I was on stage 8 and 10, but looked to be pushing more and more during the day in the 'normal' sections.
Also, he stills runs according to the Danish seeding system, so he started among Evos and Maxis on stages that were laps of the same route. I know at least once he was bothered because Steen Andersen was about to catch him on a long section of straights, but then he could maintain the gap (he could see him in the mirrors, but didn't affect either) in the next twisty section through a forest.
Besides, for the spectators it was a strange sight to see a small standard-ish looking car in between the bigger and much louder cars. :D
In our national rallies, he should be a lock to win class 2, and should challenge for Division B honours for r2 and r3 cars.
Especially since it seems Klaus Hammer will be out for a fair while.
Unfortunately, it is now official: A woman has died after the car crashed into the spectators during the Amsterdam Rallysprint. Three further spectators are (heavily) injured.....
Some witnesses say they were sent away from their spectating spot twice by the marshalls, but they didn't listen and kept returning.
RIP. :(
Video from Rally Kurzeme 2013 (saturday): rally-video.eu/2013-kurzeme-rally-video/ (G.Gross, A. Lukyanuk, R.Kvaraciejus, E.Kaur, O.Tänak, V.Gryazin, mistakes, jumps and etc.)
This incident had nothing to do with gravel on tarmac. The problem is the positioning of spectators in this one. A car can lose brakes on both gravel and tarmac... Other than that, there are more fatal accidents on tarmac, but there are much more events on tarmac in Europe as well...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
If my memory is correct, a very similar accident happened in Barneveld some years ago (2007-2008??), where a car missed junction (after losing brakes) and went into the public. Any Dutch member can confirm? The danger in the straights after junctions is very underestimated in many countries... :(
RIP...
Some pictures from Kurzeme rally: Kuramaa ralli - Rally Kurzeme
Also, very sad to hear about the rallysprint accident. Awful news :(