WRC event Rally Estonia 2020

Organizers did good job to hold any unwanted people out - there was a bunch of guys with dirt bikes who scanned the areas day and night and lot of surveillance personell and equipment (helis and drones) from police and border guard.

Organisers have indicated that they found some people that were ignoring those restrictions but they all were escorted out of the area with no bigger incidents. Those scattered groups of people that were visible from the live feed was most likely locals who live around the stages and their visitors or accredited media personnel. Afaik every local inside the perimeter was contacted and they had an opportunity to register some friends and family members who got access to the stages while the event was running.

Edit: While scrolling Instagram I found this account of one of the bike guys. You can get a glimpse of the job they did + one good video about a disguised camper van that they found: https://www.instagram.com/stories/hi...1128886782326/

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Originally Posted by flykas

What do you thinks is the chance of it becoming a regular WRC event?

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really hard to say, i doubt it but Aavas dream to have it every two years should be possible i think.

found this from twitter:

"A long time member of the FIA said that Rally Estonia was the best WRC event of all time. The FIA implied that finally someone understood - we live in 2020, not 1978."

Quotes from Tarmo Hõbe, one of the main men behind RE.


i guess with this is meant the technical solutions and stuff like that.

E: btw, the Rally Estonia crew is also helping Ypres rally organizers.

Adamo: "Thierry Neuville deserves to be World Champion, he goes fast everywhere"

2192/5000
"What does Ott bring us? One more victory !, smiled Andrea Adamo at the microphone of Olivier Gaspard, RTBF's special envoy in Estonia. He brings us more than that obviously, because he has not signed with us for a piece of bread! All the drivers who work with us bring something. He has the experience of having driven cars from other manufacturers (the Ford Fiesta WRC and the Toyota Yaris WRC, editor's note), and when you have in your team the technical experience of two guys like Thierry and Ott who work together, in the same direction, it is very precious. If we had two idiots who fight and who do not say things to each other, It would be different! For me, our team's season has changed in Mexico, where on Sunday we did a very long debriefing of ... six hours, I think. We put everything on the table, we got together. telling all our truths, we made a list of everything that needed to change from a technical point of view on the car. "

The Italian boss of the Hyundai team also returned to the weekend of Thierry Neuville, in a fight for the podium before being thrown out of the line in a bend that had widened, tearing a wheel and to abandon. A disaster in the race for the world title?

"For me, a disaster is something else, it's the Covid-19 pandemic, underlined Andrea Adamo. Thierry had a difficult weekend, it's one thing, a disaster, it's another thing. In Turkey, he will have a favorable starting position, because the sweep will be important. I remind you that we are here above all to win the Constructors' World Championship, and he was the fundamental person last year. to allow us to win it. He is going all out for that. For me, Thierry, he is top. He demonstrated again this weekend that when he has a car that allows him to go fast on roads like in Estonia or Finland, he can fight. He was third, next to the others! I will tell him again: he deserves to win the World Championship, because he goes fast everywhere. "

https://www.rtbf.be/sport/moteurs/ra..._Axp0VPnhMLU5Y

Is it possible to see full article??

https://tartu.postimees.ee/7056518/t...LXBS8Q5RfT_kvU

big bravo to Neuville
https://twitter.com/thierryneuville/...97268824555521

McKlein photos

https://www-dirtfish.imgix.net/2020/...llery-carousel
https://www-dirtfish.imgix.net/2020/...llery-carousel
https://www-dirtfish.imgix.net/2020/...llery-carousel

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/mckle...rally-estonia/

Henry Lääne
@henrylaane

Tänak and Neuville race in the same team. After Rally Estonia, they both have 13 event wins, they both have won 10 different WRC rallies and they both have 234 stage wins. Looks like a draw, but only one is a world champion...
#WRC #WRClive #RallyEstonia #rallye #rally #ralli

Tänak airlines https://twitter.com/mundorallyes/sta...835873282?s=21

https://youtu.be/m1vc-68ODro
https://youtu.be/wmu4JvTRY-U
https://youtu.be/UxsKSlEJLSE

Veiby roll
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE2NNFdq...d=igfqwzubfvuu

#WRC team bosses believe Rally Estonia deserves to be a regular fixture on the calendar following its debut last weekend:

https://t.co/Ga6aesLGwZ

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

#WRC team bosses believe Rally Estonia deserves to be a regular fixture on the calendar following its debut last weekend:

https://t.co/Ga6aesLGwZ

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that's good its getting some positive feedback.
i followed it online and i think it was a great event. i really liked the roads and surrounding scenery.
i think the organizers really did an amazing job to be able to host this event at this time. i would also like to see it back on the WRC calendar (next year if possible )

good video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4oRhtlMt_I

from Esthonian police according to French site

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...515e92c0a9.jpg

Yes and everyone behaving, 90 km/h is allowed, plus 2-3 or smth like that.

But there was a lot of misbehaving from spectators, over 304 infringements, mostly speeding.

government invested 2,5 millions to protect household.
https://www-dirtfish.imgix.net/2020/...llery-carousel
https://www-dirtfish.imgix.net/2020/...llery-carousel
https://www-dirtfish.imgix.net/2020/...llery-carousel
https://www-dirtfish.imgix.net/2020/...llery-carousel
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/behin...with-dirtfish/

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from Esthonian police according to French site

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...515e92c0a9.jpg

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So Rovanpera won? :D

Clearly Toyota is the fastest WRC on straights..

So Estonian Healt Board has announced one of the visitors has COVID and was attending the rally with RP6 pass:
SS1 (Tartu vald), SS3 (Karste), SS10 (Kääriku) ja SS14 (Nõuni) . Lets hope that it won't lead to a bigger outbreak!

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Originally Posted by rpzcs

So Estonian Healt Board has announced one of the visitors has COVID and was attending the rally with RP6 pass:
SS1 (Tartu vald), SS3 (Karste), SS10 (Kääriku) ja SS14 (Nõuni) . Lets hope that it won't lead to a bigger outbreak!

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It was highly probable that among those 16K people attending plus hundreds organizers and volunteers someone will have it. Thats the reason for all this hand sanitizing, mask wearing and splitting into smaller groups. Lets see how it developes, hopefully it will not lead to another major outbreak.

"Takamoto Katsuta had just cartwheeled close to a million Euros worth of car through woods, just over there."

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-e...rashed-katsuta

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

"Takamoto Katsuta had just cartwheeled close to a million Euros worth of car through woods, just over there."

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-e...rashed-katsuta

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Just a mood piece or meta journalism, nothing about rally itself.

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

Just a mood piece or meta journalism, nothing about rally itself.

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Walking through forests, bushes, streams, wet shoes, thorn wounds. It's actually very much related to experiencing rallying.

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Clearly Toyota is the fastest WRC on straights..

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Bring on Ypres!

Heli footage https://youtu.be/KJapzZnzT6w

Gus Greensmith told the AR Podcast he was out of a rally car for 5 months. He confirmed that M-Sport was hit hard by the lockdown. Therefore rally testing which is paid for by Malcolm (Wilson) himself had to be cut.

And even his (pre-Estonia) test in Greystoke Forest was badly disrupted by technical issues.

Thus his drive on Rally Estonia was vitually just for 'seat time' and no risks.

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Originally Posted by rpzcs

So Estonian Healt Board has announced one of the visitors has COVID and was attending the rally with RP6 pass:
SS1 (Tartu vald), SS3 (Karste), SS10 (Kääriku) ja SS14 (Nõuni) . Lets hope that it won't lead to a bigger outbreak!

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I guess now it is certain that this one infected visitor was all the covid we had on this event. No new infections reported, no spread inside RP6 group or in any other group. So all these measures seemed like they worked as intended. Sure you cant be absolutely sure that all visitors are "clean" when they come, but you can make efforts to prevent or limit the spread when infected people come. Others should learn from it and organize more rallies :)

https://youtu.be/xiNfkeurWso