The new World Champion's livery is now available in Dirt Rally 2.0 ! :cool:
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The new World Champion's livery is now available in Dirt Rally 2.0 ! :cool:
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Now we just need his car for Dirt Rally 3.0 ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
https://fb.watch/ghlyHuYla8/
Sometimes it is hard to understand how good this guy knows finnish rallying heritage.
Remarkable hommage to a finnish rallyvdriver who just passed away.
Could someone explain to non finns also, what did he say and what's the story behind the original saying? :)
Seppo Kopra, a veteran rally driver just passed away recently. He became famous for a video where he's teaching a young driver and telling him to use more throttle with the phrase "pikkasen ylikovaa niin se kääntyilee" which means "a little too fast to make it turn". He remained a hobbyist driver until the very end. He died of a sudden stroke (or something) while preparing to drive the zero car. And the last rally he completed in September, he won the overall.Quote:
Originally Posted by flat_right
Also he worked for TGR for a long time, maybe even until the end?Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Kopra was/is a legend!
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Yes. He was in charge of building service park facilities. Did also some meteo/weather work during rallies and did drive everything (minibus, spare recce cars etc.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Essaj
Sounds like if there was a job that needed doing - he'd be the guy who'd do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Without guys like him there wouldn't be any rallies - Respect & RIP, even though I'd never heard of him until now.
Harri Rovanpera's moving tribute brought a tear from the normally ice-cool Kalle. Special moment.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1585330011187429400
Kalle hits again....
https://yle.fi/a/3-12675091?utm_sour...f6RXSuROET9IP4
What did he say?Quote:
Originally Posted by jiipee64
Guys, if there is some info etc in your local language, please add some translation/explanation. This is not a local forum :)
Can You see the video there??
No, looks like it’s blocked, i see a globe so probably geo block.
Yes, the same here that I can't see it. This is why I asked for explanation.Quote:
Originally Posted by jiipee64
Kalle Rovanperä
@KalleRovanpera
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Exciting news!
GR Yaris 'Kalle Edition' will be coming out soon!
Big thanks to TOYOTA for making this possible and giving me chance to do something special with it!
And also super happy that our bald, but very nice livery made by Liupakka Graphics is on it!��
#KR69 #GRYaris
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Sorry to learn that Kalle has to stop testing super formula, due to issues with his balance nerve.
Hopefully he will have a speedy recovery.
Kalle Rovanperä feels he was born 20 years too late. “I would have liked to be a professional in the 1990s, when life was much simpler and rallying was, in my opinion, cooler,” Rovanperä continues.
Rovanperä has later seen videos of rallying in the 1990s, and its relaxed atmosphere has made a deep impression on the Finnish driver. “I watched Juha (Kankkunen) and the other guys smoking in the car between special stages and then just carrying on again. I just thought it was really cool,” Rovanperä says.
source:
https://rallyjournal.com/kalle-rovan...ke-in-the-car/
Any news about his recovery, or whatever he needs for coming back to F2?
Kalle's livery for Formula Regional Oceania. First race is tomorrow at midnight CET.
Link to Reddit, for some reason i cant upload the picture here.
https://www.upload.ee/image/18962710...zwmm92cg1.jpegQuote:
Originally Posted by Kenneth
livestream for qualy in 25h from now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iey-Z99L2Ik
dammit cannot believe im going to start to follow open wheel racing lol
I think I can feel the disturbance in The Force - somebody is moving to The Dark Side :)Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
A bit of a tough start for Kalle. He qualified 16th out of the 19 cars, but in saying that he was basically just over one second behind the pole sitter. The cars are super close in performance. Pole 1:29.267 Kalle 1:30.307
Race 1 has just finished, the results say he was 16th overall, but the commentators were saying their could be a 10 second infringement coming his way which drop him to last TBC
The results will show very average start, but he was up against seasoned F3, GB3, F4, and even a Supercar driver. Definitely room for improvement once he gets used to the car, the tracks, etc
I'm heading to the track tomorrow for the Sunday races so hopefully I'll grab a few photos.
Race #2
Much better for Kalle. He started 17th (his final position from Race #1) and finished up 11th, probably the biggest improvement of all the drivers, so it looks like the race-craft is coming. He had a good mid-field, back-and-forth battle and was up to 10th a few times but slipped back just before the finish.
ehhhh... its harder when theres 20 entries all on the same car. most of these kids are coming from road racing and karting and open wheel racing already. as a fan I was hoping kalle would be beating everybody from day 1 in open wheel but I guess we are going to have to wait a little bit! interesting anyway tho!
Seeing his results from a national event in NZ this weekend, I think we can assume that he’ll be back in WRC in the near future. He’s not going to make it to F1.
A very hot day at Hampton Downs race track today.
Race #3. Kalle started 18th, and finished 13th. With the 9th fastest lap time.
Race #4 Started 9th, but was involved in a big accident on the first lap that knocked out 5 cars so that was the end of his weekend unfortunately.
There are 12 more races over the next 3 weekends.
Results can be found here. https://www.toyota.co.nz/toyota-raci...endar-results/
I also don't think Kalle will make it into F1, but common, you can't make any conclusions from this event so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
It isn't "national event in NZ" by any mean, it's the most prestigious off-season formula series and it's pretty much full of experienced F4-FR-F3 drivers who races on circuits since they were small kids.
On the other hand, Kalle had only like 4 test sessions so far in his open wheen career before his first race. He should be dead last by any mean, yet he wasn't. He also showed some good racecraft there.
His goal isn't to win the races, but to finish them and show his potential, and it will be same in SF. We can make some conclusions in his second F2 season, not now lol.
Flip the scenario on its head. A top F1 driver enters a national event of the BRC for example. They set a 9th fastest stage time and finish 11th. I think we’d all conclude that they’ll never make it into a factory WRC seat.
It’s unlikely Kalle will even get enough points for a super licence. Nothing against him or his driving talent, he’s just started circuit racing way too late. I fear he’ll make rally drivers look a bit average if he enters F2, and maybe even in super formula! I think people forget about Loeb’s GP2 test where he finished last of 25 drivers.
OK maybe hypothetically, but not really a useful comparison when in reality a 53 year old ex-F1 driver actually just won the BRC championship title, winning 4 rounds from 5 starts. If he was 25, we'd think a factory WRC seat could be possible for the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
Although I agree on Kalle, never did hold much high expectations for this venture. If he's enjoying it all then good for him.
This just kind of shows that F1 drivers are better than some rally fans give credit for. Kubica was another example, WRC stage wins and won WRC2 fairly easily.Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCStan
Both categories have their ups and downs. Those G-forces in Formula probably are hard to take. Also they whine how hard is for them, while rallying take on icy, winter roads, hot as hell too and with events whch transforms from one extreme to completely different one. In rallying drivers and co-drivers are the ones who often fix their cars to be able to race, changing the tyres while formula drivers doesn't need to do nothing and wait (and still whine). Formula drivers gets payed in multimillions just to be there, while rally drivers need to work very hard, achieve absolutely maximum to start making money out of this sport. Of course formula drivers also have field full of other drivers while rallying is focused more on being attentive to roads ahead and time.
But one fact is quite funny. Formula drivers are often afraid being in rally car while they racing with 300kph on perfect paved circuits.
So both sport have their own challenges, shame just that WRC isn't worth more.
They're not use to working in 3D space either. But for the ups and downs of the circuit they're in 'flatland'.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
Speak for yourself. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
and he started being 10/15/20ish in regional rallies...Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
Anthony Davidson actually said almost exactly that in commentary a few years ago on the F1. I think they were talking about Bottas when he did some rallies, and he said he would love to drive a rally car on the roads in Finland, but not with the trees, rocks, ditches and spectators so close to the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
IMO there are much more positives than negatives for Kalle from first race weekend in single seaters - in one of the races his best lap was only three tents slower than the fastest drivers...as someone said, some drivers here as Slater and Ugochukwu has tons of experience from karting to the lower classes of single seaters and I think both are future F1 candidates... I think this was also first time for Kalle to seat in Formula Regional (in theory successor of Formula Renault) and he was most of the time in the middle pack, he was also not afraid to overtake other drivers etc.
Patience is the key :)
A four minute interview with Kalle before he started the weekend's races.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14dhTMW_Nbw
Kalle still can't get the result better than 12th in NZ formula, So I can't imagine how will he perform in Super formula