3rd M-Sport's Fiesta WRC to Lithuanian gentleman driver (?) Deividas Jocius.
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3rd M-Sport's Fiesta WRC to Lithuanian gentleman driver (?) Deividas Jocius.
MSport maybe ends up with a team of this guy, Serderidis and some more gentlemandriver. :(
How on earth can they get permission to have licence for WRC17 car?
Are you pissed that Tidemand doesnt have enough money?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Good call.... wasn’t there some sort of rule or agreement in place as to who could drive these cars?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
As a matter of fact I´m not. One year ago maybe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex009
But I´m not going for watching old slow gentlemen when attending WRC rallies. Not even Rally Sweden. On the other hand true what you say; with money you can buy anything you want. Even a license to drive WRC 17 car.
I think its better to have this car on stages than in M-Sports garage. Even if its gentleman driver.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Well, he's not quite a gentleman driver, pretty fast in national level, we will see what he's capable do with WRC, hope it will be ok results :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...2017/?s=143240
Nope. I´d rather see one fast youngster in old R5 car, than WRC car on low gears.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex009
Ofcourse, i didn't say that. There will be these R5 cars anyway. If Jodius wouldn't be driving, that Fiesta would be at garage in Cumbria. Jodius doesn't effect what others do. So, 0 or +1, you choose which is better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
How about an old man in a young car? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Here's Skoda Fabia R5 for 57-year-old Michal Solowow for Rally Sweden:
https://www.facebook.com/rallypl/pho...type=3&theater
Yep that's they way all the "Teams" has wanted it...Think of just shell prep..Early 90s Ford said "100 hours" to prep and acge a Sierra Cosworth 4x4...Now "600 hours"...wonder what the cost difference is???Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
It's all about money.
Nope. That´s what we talked about, yes? No I want action. Not a parade.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
also on the 4th fiesta at monte carlo, btw. more to come maybe.
You misspelled his name. The proper spelling is Deivida$ Jociu$.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
Making fun of Lithuanian's names, niiice ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by RAS007
I agree. While he is on the road (on national events) he is very spectacular. I would say he is Lukyanuk's style driver with lower skills level than Luky.Quote:
Originally Posted by electroliquid
So if he really will drive almost whole season I expect some flashes from him - maybe some decent times in particular stages. As long as he will stay on the road...
Yes, you are right, I don't expect miracles, but call him gentlemen driver, that's not fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by sindroms
Deividas Jocius testing Fiesta last year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhib...yEt9Pbn2TKOw6o
Any locals on here give update on weather within the rally area? Still 4 weeks away so how does it look now?
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I´m not local, but forecast could give below zero degrees during nights, which is fundamental. Frozen gravel is for sure not good, but will be like a kind of icy conditions. So big need of below zero temperatures coming weeks.
Snow on top is abonus, but first frozen surfaces.
Edit: a closer look gives information of plus degrees during days for 10 days ahead, so RS is in danger (my thoughts)
What i've seen from the pictures posted by the locals, is that conditions are terrible right now. Pretty much all of the stages are on gravel or at best have a thin layer of ice.
Here is a snow depth map. https://www.smhi.se/en/weather/swede...now-depth/1920
Here we joke that winter is cancelled, because there haven't been snow for quite some time now, and looks to continue that way.
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Same in Estonia. No winter at all
For example right now it is +6 degrees and raining in the middle of January!!!
Much better to use this one:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
http://www.senorge.no/?p=senorgeny&m...87&fh=0%3B2468
Covers the rally on both sides of the border, can be zoomed and also gives predictions for a few days.
Anyway long term forecast says below zero whole day at end of next week. So guess the last week of January will be crucial, if conditions don't improve from current ones when February comes I think they'll cancel it.
Another cancelation after Chile?
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Originally Posted by Portimao
It would be bad, 3/5 cancellations would be horrible (aus, IF sweden, chile)
Lets hope for the best, but it needs to go to minus degrees and quick.
Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by Portimao
Without snow it would just be a gravel rally. That would be unfortunate, but no reason to cancel it
Depends how soft the surface is.Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
The cost to repair the roads may be too muchQuote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
Looking to maybe be the warmest January recorded.
But, it's said to be colder towards the end of January/early Februari. Let's hope for some snow and cold temperatures
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I live in Norway, about 1,5 hours from some of the stages running on this side of the border, and where I live we have green grass. As mentioned, things aren't looking good. Right now the organizers of Rally Finnskog (the second round of the Norwegian rally championship) are looking for a plan B to run the event as many of the stages are pure gravel. Part of this event runs in the same area as the Norwegian stages just two weeks before Rally Sweden.
With no snow or cold temperatures forecasted for the next ten days for a majority of the area where Rally Sweden is to run, I'd say we're in trouble right now.
Wouldn't it be more closer to rally gb than just pure gravel rally? Here in neighbour country it just has rained, rained and kept on plus temps for pretty much the whole winter.
is it possible to go even more north or it doesnt make a difference?
On the long term you can do that, if the possibilities are there. But now you cannot quickly move the rally, there's more work than that...
i didnt mean this year
i mean they have to do something, the situation aint gettin better...
It depends on a lot of factors I think. At this moment they are sponsored by the Varmland region, and they are already driving in the Northern part of that region... You need the accommodation, money and roads to organize a rally...
Seems every year we are on the edge of the conditions not being suitable...Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Sorry if this has been asked before, but if the rally was moved further North for weather, is there anywhere suitable to base the rally from?
I think we could be in a position where this rally is cancelled, and cancelled in decent time (before teams travel to Sweden etc). That's if things don't dramatically improve weather wise.
Some years we have had stages binned and routes altered at the last minute, but this could be an easy call to cancel the event in advance due to the state of the weather. Would be a disaster to lose another event, but we also don't want a situation of uncertainty where everyone has travelled there in the hope we might get some last minute weather change before Reece begins.
As for the future, either Sweden finds a way to make this event work further north or it dies (imho).
From the top of my head I immediatelly think of Östersund or maybe somewhere around Falun.Quote:
Originally Posted by doubled1978
Swedish quys would know more.
They'd loose the benefit of co-arrangement with Norway though, not sure how much that matters.
I don't think its suitable to move rally sweden, because all the clubs, people and valenteers live in this area.
It has been discussed lots of times in both countries and the main problem is to get a new organisation to run the event.
In the mountains North of Lillehammer it is lots if snow, but we cant even get an organisation to run a smal rally here.
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