Not suggesting anyone mess with the snakes Ray ... rather that they take the right gear with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by raybak
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Not suggesting anyone mess with the snakes Ray ... rather that they take the right gear with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by raybak
Hayden needs to use 'No snakes, no deadly spiders here' in his 'Bring Back Rally NZ' campaign.
some photos from Australiafrom Timo Anis
https://scontent.fath2-1.fna.fbcdn.n...92&oe=588F793F
https://scontent.fath2-1.fna.fbcdn.n...92&oe=588F793F
Word out there after recce is that there is a lot more loose gravel on the stages. Road position will be very important.
Ray
Testing showed a lot of dust ... will be a real problem on the first pass.
Depends on the time there will be between cars. With such small amount of cars they can leave huge gaps. I remember in Sardinia in 2009 there were 4 minutes between WRC cars (3 minutes between others). It was quite boring for spectators... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
It hangs in the trees though so wont clear in a few minutes...Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Ostberg: 'Quite technical stages at recce today, and difficult with the dust...' https://t.co/nCw4lyHNnG
Very rough stages out there this year, they'll be going through some tires I say! Good luck to DMACK.
second pass
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxamSbeXUAAd3_o.jpg
plenty of clips from shakedown
https://twitter.com/RallyingUK
https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...84189287_o.jpg
Latvala on problem,slow time at 3rd pass
huuuuge cleaning effect...Ogier 3.01.5 third time...11 secs faster than first time.
on such gravel - it's just shakedown. Cleaning effect can be much less if other are so different as this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
some drivers doing 4th run
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxawLWGXgAABDaR.jpg
shakedown highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hocxwdbgZOs
Basically nothing between the top 5 on that list other than what will happen with road order.
Nice to see there are some actual rally photographers out there.
The last one is one of the best of 2016. very very nice who is he? Tanak?Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
EDIT: Yeah is Ott. Nice one.
How many shots of kangaroos and surfers do you need before people click we're in Australia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjQneJPM3M
WRC.com
Ogier was first into the stage and had a taste of things to come when he opens the roads for the first two legs on Friday and Saturday. The loose gravel was deep and the Frenchman’s quickest time was more than 11sec faster than his opening effort on unused roads.
“It’s such an incredible cleaning effect we have seen this morning,” he said. “By our calculations it is between 0.2sec - 0.3sec per car per kilometre faster. It’s always difficult here but during the recce a lot of people said it was even worse than previous years. I didn’t expect so much.”
Even Monday night’s massive rainstorm in the host town of Coffs Harbour offered no respite for the early starters.
“When we started the recce on Tuesday morning I never saw any marks of humidity anywhere. It is completely dry and dusty,” Ogier added.
wrc video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZVvA_qLrRc
the other guy, but yours are good as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
Visit some hairpins tomorrow, make your fellow useless pro photographers proud.
Some incredible rally photos! The one with Tänak jumping sideways was especially awsome. Hayden should make posters of the one with him - wow!Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
This is the imagery that is needed to sell the sport, not those flower photos!
Start list to the first leg is available: https://rally-base.com/2016/rally-au...TimeTypeId=729
Weather:
So, Like you see from photos, rain is not very likely ;)
Morning today will be a bit cool and almost calm. But luckily first 2 stages are in relatively open landscape, maybe only a few hundred meters at the end of SS1 is in the shade. and short sections on the second stage. Wind should be OK for third stage already :) Temperature in the morning nice, around 20..23 degrees and by noon it will be 26.. 28 degrees. However, road is not so abrasive as in Mediterranean rallies, should be better for DMack.. and rally is faster. and some later stages are completely under the forrest, so, road is not so hot.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0...f6&oe=58C006F3
With the credit... Cause I love it !
yeah nice photo, Tänak also added it to his facebook.
Top3 shakedown conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAzCfbLjTWI
VW orders their drivers to go for the win https://www.autosport.com/news/repor...out-with-a-win
Asked if he thought his DMACK tyres would cope with the heat, hard surface and long stages, he replied: "They're as black and as round as the others. Why not?"
lol, typical Tänak
Video from those jumps: https://youtu.be/I9y_UJ7X_mc
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxdZPLuUsAAnDg6.jpg:large
"One for the podium and into a museum/collection, but please wreck the other two so we don't have to take criticism when all the other cars from the rally program are destroyed."Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Dmacks were ok in Poland, very hot was there
I believe they are all taken by @world, the ones you criticize constantly. Funny how quickly things change in "god"-world... one day vw s not going anywhere, the next day they are... one day a photographer is the burnt bottom of the failed dish in the saucepan, the next day, same photographer is an "actual rally photographer".Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Can't be easy to speak in absolutes all the time when you are wrong so often.
Dare to imagine what will happen with Toyoda's project?Quote:
Originally Posted by itix