[WRC] Acropolis Rally 2012

Dear god, they must be mad to run that last part of SS2 :crazy:

700m almost flat out straight on extremely steep downhill, that is insane, they should stop the stage on the junction at the top of the hill. I hope nothing goes wrong, because if it does it will go very wrong indeed :s Or at least stop anybody standing near to the road, not easy when it's not far from the main road at the bottom.

You know the road I mean NOT? tolis?

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2513009_n.jpg
(facing uphill)

Ziria looks very spectacular though :up:

Actually looking at the other stages it must be the stop line so that should be ok, just hope nobody has lost their brakes ;)

I wish Colin Clark etc good luck walking up the hill for the end of stage reports :D

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Originally Posted by J4MIE

Dear god, they must be mad to run that last part of SS2 :crazy:

700m almost flat out straight on extremely steep downhill, that is insane, they should stop the stage on the junction at the top of the hill. I hope nothing goes wrong, because if it does it will go very wrong indeed :s Or at least stop anybody standing near to the road, not easy when it's not far from the main road at the bottom.

You know the road I mean NOT? tolis?

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2513009_n.jpg
(facing uphill)

Ziria looks very spectacular though :up:

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The place you mention was not part oft he stage last year... this year according to the coordinates is included...maybe the coordinates refer to the finish TC and not the actual flying finish, otherwise it is a pretty dangerous place...

In other news: torrential rains are sweeping the country...a bit like last year...lets hope the weather improves as we get closer to the event.

Yes the start line was at the top of the hill, that road up is where Latvala broke his diff as he was going up. It is also the hill that damn nearly killed me :bigcry: I got overtaken by the zero car as I was crawling up, luckily the stage was late in starting so I just made it in time :D

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Originally Posted by J4MIE

Dear god, they must be mad to run that last part of SS2 :crazy:

700m almost flat out straight on extremely steep downhill, that is insane, they should stop the stage on the junction at the top of the hill. I hope nothing goes wrong, because if it does it will go very wrong indeed :s Or at least stop anybody standing near to the road, not easy when it's not far from the main road at the bottom.

You know the road I mean NOT? tolis?

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2513009_n.jpg
(facing uphill)

Ziria looks very spectacular though :up:

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Great road.

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Originally Posted by Barreis

Great road.

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Errrrrrrr..... No. Not competitively downhill.

Acropolis Rally of Greece Google Earth Map is now out Programme du Rallye Wrc de Grèce-Acropole 2012

Thank you :)

Google earth maps including the access points to the special stages

Acropolis Rally 2012 - Spectators - Google Earth

part of the ss Ziria (ss13/17) was used last year in a rally sprint... the sprint started 14 kms into the stage that is going to be used for acropolis (here you can see the map for the sprint 31) and turned towards a different direction where ss13 access point 2 is on google maps from the official site google map access points.

you can get a taste of how the road is below ... it looks like the WRCs are going to pack some serious speed....and it remains to be seen if the artificial slowing chicanes will be used for the WRC route as well... enjoy.

Rally Sprint "trikala korinthias" 2011 in car - YouTube