Jeremie Serieys with Renault probably in some ERC events with support of FFSA.
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Jeremie Serieys with Renault probably in some ERC events with support of FFSA.
Liepaja would be a good warm up for Kubica for Sweden too; why not come again? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
Do you want another "last stage thriller"? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Especially when he will need more competitive kms after early off on Monte :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
I do think Monte is going to be harder for Robert.. less run off areas than Janner!Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
So I'm not the only one thinking that RK won't finish Monte. Oops I said it loudly! http://www.serellan.com/forums/publi...ult/tomato.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
Monte is punishing hard every mistake. No room for risks there.
Any news about Lukyanuk?
Isn't he targeting WRC2 with DS3?Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
ASRT media wrote in the video thread that Lukyanuk probably has no money to run anything this winter :(
Correct !Quote:
Originally Posted by mousti
http://www.craigbreen.com/images/new...lent-Lario.jpg
As for 2014 :
'After a hectic schedule Breen relaxed over the Christmas spending time watching old season reviews of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship. “I’m a real anorak when it comes to that kind of stuff, sometimes you’d think I was born in the wrong era” smiles Breen. The smile however morphs into a deadly serious expression when he’s asked about his hopes for 2014. “I’m in the right place, with the right team and the right car. I’ll do what I’ve always done and do the best job that I can but I want to win this year. Not just rallies, but the European Championship...'
Serious ambition to be :champion:
@Craig_Breen
Been watching this webcam feed from Liepaja for weeks, and finally tonight theres the first sign of snow! @LVRally
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdzocRPIIAAcTxC.jpg
New entries
Robert Consani - Peugeot 207 S2000
Vasily Gryazin - Ford Fiesta S2000
Jaromír Tarabus - Skoda Fabia S2000
Vitaliy Pushcar - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X R4
Sergey Gerashenko - Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X
Jan ?erný - Peugeot 208 R2
Toma? Pospí?ilik - Skoda Fabia R2
http://lvrally.com/eng/rally-liepaja/competitors/ec
I'm surprised to see Tomáš Pospíšilík there. He is autocross driver (6th in European championship 2013).
For me it is not surprise - http://www.autosport.cz/clanek.php?cl=15995Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
What a stupid idea, why not do an event with pacenotes and a proper car??Quote:
Originally Posted by giù tutto!
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Originally Posted by COD
Driving without pacenotes improves your "road eye" (road reading ability), and with better "road eye" you can anticipate your driving to a blind crest a little better and be more braver... It really is not stupid idea to come to Finland and drive traditional rally stages without pace notes. I think that this will be a good experiment to Craig and a great experience! :)
Last year rally Liep?ja R2 and 2WD class winner Risto Immonen will participate in Liep?ja ERC http://www.go4speed.lv/lv/news/erc/2951 ... vu-uzvaru/
Kajto will start too - http://www.autosport.cz/clanek.php?cl=16009
Will be a great rally with most of the favorites already starting + JERC!
Now I understand why the Finns have been so successful recent years... :D Please don't tell this to the French drivers, I can't imagine what they could have done if they had known this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinke1979
It's not a stupid idea to drive a rally in Finland, but why blind event with this kind of car? What's the point? Why don't he participate to the Arctic Rally? Driver like Breen has still plenty of time to collect experiences when he will be older, but this doesn't look like a professional preparing for the important event to me.
Isn't driving without pace notes making the co-driver useless? And isn't it counterproductive for real rally training? Not to mention that it gives local drivers a huge advantage over the others that never drove the stage before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinke1979
A Romanian driver told me about certain second-tier rallies in Finland that are done without recce and crews only receive standard pace notes (the same for all crews) just before the start. This way costs are lowered and aspiring drivers learn how to drive fast on previously unknown stages. Young crews lacking experience typically have crap pace notes, but if a highly experienced co-driver (let's say Timo Rautiainen) writes the pace notes for all crews in this kind of rally, then all crews have the best pace notes and they learn how to write good notes in the future. I don't know if this is a myth or not. Maybe our Finnish forum members will shed some light on this matter.
Pacenotes prepared and distributed by rally organization is a common thing in some British and American series I believe.
Breen got invited by the family Lario, he probably doesn't need to pay anything for this rally..
It would be something really odd, if he would have to pay for that.
In Sweden they have some kind of safety notes also, I presume.
Basically all Finnish rallies (excluding FRC-events) are blind rallies. Blind means, that here in Finland we don't have any safety notes prepared by organizers (no Jemba, etc.). The only guidance is standard roadbook (making additional markings is prohibited by rules) and directional arrows in junctions on stages, and perhaps some safety tape in very dangerous/blind corners. So it's all about eyes, and how to read the road. Codriver is responsible for all the standard codriver duties, only thing missing are the notes.
This has been, and is, seen as a Finland's strenght. Driving blind rallies actually develops your skill to "read the road". This, in blind rallies, means faster times, and also later when transitioning to rallies with pacenotes, helps a lot with doing good notes. I have not competed, but I have done a lot of spectator recce, and the development is clear: nowdays I can quite easily spot challenging places - to such extent that places I've considered difficult in recce have often produced action/moments even in NORF. Few things to look and analyze: changes in road character: fast flowing section ending to tight corner; deceptions (phone lines, "holes" in forests, tree placement after crests, buildings, etc), sequence of crests (lifting the car while cornering?), sudden wrong camber, entry speed to corner, sequence of corners, etc etc.
Although I've had some thoughts of the system's current strenghts compared to France for example. Loeb and Ogier's pacenotes are so highly standardised and can describe the road so perfectly, that the meaning of "road eye" is greatly reduced. What I mean, is that when you have angle-based notes (e.g 30-140) and you get them to correspond 100% with the road, it leaves out all "feeling-based" predictions about the road (curvature) ahead. It is a big difference to have "right 132++, long, tightens to 115" in your notes compared to "right medium -, long, tightens to K-". In first, you have 110 (plus all additional +/-) possibilities to describe the road curvature, compared to under ten of the descriptive system (between flat-slow). And when using the descreptive system, the "hole" which is left, is then filled with good road eye and the split second analysis done. I give very high value to Loeb and Ogier's notesystem (they have the same frame) in their championship wins and incredible speed.
That would be true for a driver starting their career, not for a one who has allready competed in many international series.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinke1979
it is not good idea. If You train Your "road eye" ability, than Your next step should be to race in rally cross or something. In rallying You need to drive by "hearing pacenotes". And only then You will be real quick. Training "eye" You are training to be slow.
Martynas Samuitis is North European Zone rally Champion 2013. (NEZ = Baltics, Scandinavia and Russia).
and Lithuania Rally Champion 2010.
should be driving 3-4 rallies in ERC.
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Originally Posted by sindroms
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Originally Posted by giù tutto!
First time in blind rally always is a educative experience.. And with Lario family paying.. Why not :D
Vitaliy Pushcar and Igor Bulantsev are out from the entry list
They are in Latvian Rally Championship entrylist now.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICARDO75
Entries are closed. Latest entries:Quote:
Originally Posted by RICARDO75
Breen, Kajetanowicz, Tlustak, Tamrazov on Fiesta S2000, Orsak on Fabia S2000. Baltic guys - Korge on Fiesta R5, Plangi, Švedas and of course local hero Vorobjovs :cool:
Now waiting for some very last moments entries :)
Very good entry list, much better than last year, and propably the best of all three "ice cup" rallies. Don´t expect Sibiu to attract so many good drivers - rather similar to Jänner Rallye.
Ice-crew report from roads of Liep?ja :) Looks good for a moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSWEicFkM54&sns=tw
+Fabia S2000 for Simone Tempestini! :)
Update, 55 ERC crews: http://lrc.lv/?m=2&r=115&l=2
Flight to Riga and hotel from Liepaja booked. Here I come 31.1 =)
Yes, in Sweden nearly all rallies have standard pacenotes without recce and roads are a secret to the start of rally.Quote:
Originally Posted by giù tutto!
The most of the pacenotes are Mr. Gunnar Barth doing ( Old codriver to Walfridsson and Rådström)
You can choose between, numbers-pacenotes ( 1-6) or describing pacenotes.
We also have a lot of "blind" rallies as in Finland without any recce and pacenotes.
In Swedish Championship there are recce ( Usually 2 times every stages) and you can write your own pacenotes.
A lot of "top"-drivers also driving as zero-car in local rallies to train with "own" pacenotes...