Rally Sweden 2012

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Rallying as a sport held on public roads is fully dependent on a tolerance of local people. Maybe in Sweden the stages lead through forgotten areas where there are no people living and traveling. But there are also many other countries with public traffic on stages during recce because You can't stop the everyday's life of thousands. Closing roads for the rally itself is more than enough to make some people crazy. If You add few accidents and some portion of arrogance the stage is over. Rallying in my country is a perfect example how to lost some classic stages for that reason...

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And also Illegal Recce makes that even worse, here in Belgium it's more of a virus. Lot's of pilots do it from top level to bottom level.

Mikko at Post-event press conference.

Q:
Were you trying to psyche your old team-mate out during the weekend? Was there a lot of fighting talk?

Mikko Hirvonen:
I tried everything I could. We were even talking about Jari-Matti's sex life and even that didn't work! The gloves were off!

Sweden - Post-event press conference | Page 2 | WRC Feature | Feb 2012 | Crash.Net

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

This was according to the article a way for the woman to express her aggression to the drivers behavour not to the accident itself. But - being a local knowing there´s recce going on should also mean some tolerance. No rally in the area of Varmland, there would be no villages and habitants as well. That is a true fact.

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of course but that doesn't mean drivers can move around like the owned the road.

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Originally Posted by OldF

Mikko at Post-event press conference.

Q:
Were you trying to psyche your old team-mate out during the weekend? Was there a lot of fighting talk?

Mikko Hirvonen:
I tried everything I could. We were even talking about Jari-Matti's sex life and even that didn't work! The gloves were off!

Sweden - Post-event press conference | Page 2 | WRC Feature | Feb 2012 | Crash.Net

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:rotflmao:

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Originally Posted by mousti

And also Illegal Recce makes that even worse, here in Belgium it's more of a virus. Lot's of pilots do it from top level to bottom level.

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Here in Portugal is worst. The majority of drivers do that, and the ASN doesn't seem worried as well the organizers.

After that during years, one of our top drivers went to an international career and during two years was unable of running even near of the others. The problem? Not used to run flat-out with two times recce per stage :D

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

This was according to the article a way for the woman to express her aggression to the drivers behavour not to the accident itself. But - being a local knowing there´s recce going on should also mean some tolerance. No rally in the area of Varmland, there would be no villages and habitants as well. That is a true fact.

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It would be difficult to speak like that in a moment something serious happen. There is some hope such day never comes but You never know and court won't think that way You do. That's also fact because it happened elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by tfp

:rotflmao:

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Didn't say anything about sexual orientation. :D

I do not know if JML drove over the speed limit or behaved wrong. Nothing about that in the article. Only according to angry woman. I think average local drivers always will see the recce as drivers moving around too fast on their roads where they usually drive in 30 km/h, so yes, it´s a problem.

Don't get me wrong, I don't speak about this particular incident I have no knowledge about. I reacted on Your post no.1744.

If I was hit by Latvala I would feel honoured!