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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
For an artificially close championship good, otherwise total shite
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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
For an artificially close championship good, otherwise total shite
I think that rule only applies for the 2025-2026 season, this year if I remember correctly, they are still allowed 9.Quote:
Originally Posted by satnav
I think that this reduced HY system regulation from x to 3 is pointless..
It is a 3rd party piece of (sh!7) weight in the car that just has to be there..
It fails so often and teams can't do anything about it, because it isn't their product.
In conclusion.. if HY works it works and nobody gains anything when using new system ,,just in case''.
It isn't like using new engine, clutch, gearboz etc..
That really make a difference.
Tänak:
A solid day, altogether not too bad. I have been struggling with my engine again but we will see tonight what can be done, but I would say it’s definitely holding us back. When we are faster and the stage is flowing, it doesn’t have as great an effect, and we have been improving step-by-step.
We have a lot of options available for our tyres, so we can adapt to the situation in the morning.
In some ways, the rally starts again tomorrow; we want to score points, but you really need to follow what the others are doing – something to keep an eye on.
They instead should’ve focused on the fact they’re running synthetic fuels or fossil-free fuels (whatever the case may be) and promote that instead of the fact the cars are now plug-in hybrids; Which if we’re being honest, none of the fans care about, it only adds weight, some additional cost to the cars (which as we said before are already mighty expensive) and a massive headache to the teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
If it’s such a good solution for the sport, why didn’t they implement it to the rally2 cars? Hell why didn’t they even bother with giving them mild-hybrid systems?
Wasn't it some time ago that these fia smartheads thought about r5 cars' need to adapt to 48v or whatever mild hybrid systems.. Luckily this shit didn't happen.
And about the fuel...
I don't know about today, but in the beginning years it was do harmful for the engined that r5/rally2/wrc2 drivers had to change the oil on every service and also some of Mikkelsen's dnf were due engine failuers bc of this ,,fossil free fuel''
Yeah I think there was a dirtfish article (or a few) regarding this back in ‘21 or was it ‘20? (Covid made it all scrambled), asking if rally2 should go the rally1 way, I think they even asked Yves Matton about this but ultimately they agreed it would add too much complexity to the car and wouldn’t be worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
The current live coverage is good, and they have listened to complaints a little. Post stage interviews now in a small screen at the corner, so we can still watch the action. Becs sometimes shuts up and says "lets listen to Scott Martin or whatever co driver" for 30secs etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
But my biggest gripe is maybe following Fourmaux today, while Neuville and Ogier are absolutely on it in an intense battle.
Presume their must be an agreement all P1 drivers or teams get equal-ish coverage? Suppose that would be an attraction for sponsors when you can guarantee screen time no matter what position you are
I think since it’s Mike Chen along side her and not Julien Porter she tends to actually let him speak so we hear less of her which is good (imho). Like you said, it was a shame we couldn’t get both onboards displayed at the same time, I’m sure it’s technically possible but again like you said probably an agreement between the sponsors and the promoter. On that note however, TV’s are large enough these days to have side by sides, they honestly should at least give us the viewers the option to view multiple onboards/camera angles. Also would be nice to have some more stage side cameras, I know it’s expensive but for the love of god this is one of the prettiest rallies on the calendar, they’re doing it no justice by showing (relatively) so little of it. But yeah sorry, that’s a rant I should've posted on WRC+ thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by er88
As for the rally, so far I’d say it’s easily the best since Sweden last year (in my eyes anyhow) and as an added bonus, the WRC2 category is on fire, loving every second of it, shame we only have 3 stages and 52kms tomorrow, makes me wish we had a bit more.
What an excellent fight we are seeing in Monte, jeeezzzz... both on WRC and WRC2
I'm having so much fun seeing the whole event, especially since I can follow everything out (thankfully I got 2 days off this weekend!).
Without Rovanpera and with Ogier not pushing as years before in WRC, Rally 1 drivers looks more on a level and thus we can enjoy a great battle up there! So exciting! WRC 2 is totally on fire with such great fights.
Hopefully tomorrow will get even better with the Sunday and WPS points! If that's how the whole season will be, we're gonna have fun, even though with so few Rally 1 cars!
IF Tierry crashes tomorrow but Seb doesnt.... Tierry's saturday 18 points goes to Ogier or it just disapears from the points table?
Goes to OgierQuote:
Originally Posted by lmmjvss
I’ve been too generous with wrc all live, no feed from Ott…you would think 6 years of them doing it would solve these kind of issues, they want new fans? Start by having basic things work.
Oh man. The gaps are so tight. Good to see
And Tänak actually has good speed when pushing now
Another masterpiece from Neuville
Thierry wants 30 points
Another mega stage
I never wasn't that scared like 5 minutes ago
Neuville on attack mode.. gap 8.4 to Ogier already
Damn he’s messing with my pickems.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Thierry on a mission again. What a drive through the whole week.
Still 2 stages to go but Monte delivered over any of my expectations
Lopez and Rossel with equal time are faster than Katsuta and Mikkelsen at the stage end.
I don’t get this now. Why Tänak has 4 points when he is ahead of Evans at the moment in Sunday standings?
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This should be correct like Antti has posted
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Because they get the points based on their position, if it were 5 seconds between Evans & Ott in the overall time and Ott would’ve been 6 seconds faster and therefore passed Evans he would receive the 5 points for third but because he’s still 4th, he gets 4 points. That’s how I understood the system anyhow.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
No that’s not how I get but okay.
As I understand Sunday has separate classification time wise and atm Tänak is faster than Evans in that regard. That’s also how Antti in Twitter understands
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Originally Posted by Eli
Same here. Maybe it is just a mistake from themQuote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
I wonder if Hyundai already starts thinking that signing mikkelsen was a mistake.
If it’s like you guys say then it’s even more stupid & complicated…jesus why of all things did they have to change it like that?Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
They’re probably thinking, ‘we should’ve used Sordo here”, sometimes their strategy is baffling.Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
Seems Thierry hit the groove, if he doesn't make a mistake it'll be hard to beat him even for Ogier. The WRC2 fight is more unpredictable.
But this is what makes Sunday now interesting. If they would give Sunday points according to their positions at the moment then They wouldn’t push like they doQuote:
Originally Posted by Eli
I guess but the guys in front still enjoy their road position, will be especially true on gravel.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
All this talk about Katsutas strategy... What exactly is his strategy, scoring least points possible?
With PowerStage you have now like 3 different rallies to keep in mind:
1. rally overall position and get points earned at the end of Saturday
2. Sunday leg position
3. PowerStage position