A pity that crash of Vlcek spoilt the QS stage tines for several drivers.
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A pity that crash of Vlcek spoilt the QS stage tines for several drivers.
Mabellini fastest on the qualifying stage:
https://www.ewrc-results.com/shake/9...redigion-2025/
just lost my mom, im not going to participate in the "Jon-ArmyStrong" team for the weekend! hoping for the best result this weekend! cheers fellas
I'm so sorry to hear that mate. God bless and may your lovely mom rest in peace.Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
(I hope Jon wins to give you a bit of cheer at this sad time.)
I'm sorry for your loss mate! May she rest in peace.Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
Just looking at these stunning views and challenging roads, clearly it needs to be instated in the WRC as season finale (and if not at least as a european Autumn/Winter slot).
Epic roads in beautiful scenery and especially Y Diafol. What a test of car and driver !
Great to see the M-Sport Ford Fiesta's are 1-2 - they can still beat the newer Skoda's and Toyota's ! ;)
So sorry to hear that, really sorry for your loss! May she rest in peace, and like FastEddie said, here’s hoping Jon will win.Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
Wow! That was close! Hot moment for Jon! :O
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B1NkAn5y7/
When was the last time when two Fiestas were leading a rally?
https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...redigion-2025/
Its must be a couple of years, maybe when Fourmaux was driving one in the BRC. Great to see it's still capable with the right set-up and driver's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Looks like a big off for Matulka, very fast section. Crew OK
Shame for McRae. His bad luck has returned with avengance.
Allen with a big shunt as well, looks like weekend over. Crew OK
Allen has retired / superrallied on every single ERC round this year, always on day 1... he crashes so often that I'm starting to get worried for him.
Another 1-2 for the M-Sport Fiesta guys on the second run of the long one, Y Diafol. They've now extended their gap to the rest to 17.5 sec.
Yeah, the 33-km-long Y Diafol took its toll. 3 retirements in top 10 - Matulka, Allen and McRae.
I feel sorry especially for Matulka, who is a young, promising and already fast driver. Unfortunately, it seems he tries to be faster too quickly. It's his 3rd roll this season.
Allen crash:
https://x.com/___BMA___/status/1964371797706457488
It's Fiesta fight!
https://scontent.fktw1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...QA&oe=68C27E3F
Another engine fire for Devine. A real pity as he hasnt been able to show his true pace here.
And this wasnt supposed to be Ingram's car, so I bet he's glad he pulled his drive !
Great morning by Armstrong with 2/2 stage wins and a brilliant call by his weather man for a full dry tyre package.
This is car of Callum, Ingram was never planning to start with this car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
It turns out this fine for Mabellini is very light. After 10 stages him and Marczyk are just 4 points apart:Quote:
Originally Posted by archie106
https://www.fiaerc.com/en/news/erc-t...l-day-in-wales
SS11 full rain.. Proper challenging tarmac rally that is interesting to watch, not like some ,,big'' events
14.5 seconds in 14 km, what a run from Jon!
Wow wow wow !!! What a time by Jon, just amazing !!
There you go saco0o, mate... that win was for you.
Massive congrats to Jon Armstrong on a first ERC win and the M-Sport Ford Fiesta for a first ERC win in 5 years ! :)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G0QHR60X...jpg&name=small
aaah thanks for this little message mate. for realQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
i was having some difficulties trying to sleep, went check the highlights not knowing what happened
it made me so happy! i though of we here, this really small group of erc fans haha that helped a lot to improve my mood
so happy to be eating my words after a victory AND a double msport podium! this was exciting, jeeez
i can almost start to smell this guy moving up a little bit for '27? can only hope the good results keep coming
and the title is still possible, who would have thought! aweomse. just awesome. the rally of the year for me.
cheers fellas, go go go
Very interesting interview with Jon (& Shane) on everything that went into getting the victory in Rally Ceredigion:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/478...TQO3TqseqAYaIg
This is also on youtube as well ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5vV1bQ5G1g&t=516s
I don't know why but I quite often remember when he won the Hyundai i20 in eSports WRC and in his victory speech he said he'd sell it. Probably not what they had in mind Jon lol.
It was a road car he won, not a rally car. I'm sure he put the sale money towards his career as a real rally driver.Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCStan
Polish ERC3 driver Kowalczyk calls Armstrong a true rallying role model :)
https://www.fiaerc.com/en/news/how-t...wc-progression
Yes pretty easy to understand but still, if you give something away as a prize that you made and want to promote the virtues of as a great product and they say 'what a bag of sh I don't need this lol', you'd be pretty miffed too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
https://www.ewrc-results.com/entries...ia-rally-2025/Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
The Rally Croatia entry list proves that there is something fundamentally unattractive about Rali Ceredigion to crews from Europe.
Last round of the season, only three drivers with a chance of winning, so you’d think the entry list would be worse than Wales, and it’s completely the opposite.
I attended Rali Ceredigion, and thought it was well organised for spectators, but inevitably I had no answer to my friends when they asked why there were so few entries in the ERC.
Not trying to be negative, I just fear if this is not addressed the ERC will opt for a more popular event in future, which will be disappointing.
Furthermore, there are 28 Rally2 cars, and only 1 is a Croatian crew in Croatia.
Without the UK and Ireland entries, there were 4 Rally2 European crews in Wales.
I am telling it all the time - for ERC competitors Rali Ceredigion is the most expensive round in terms of costs (and also logistics due to ferry, customs issue, id/passport issues etc) so it is first event to cut. And to say the truth, lot of drivers in Croatia is doing it mainly as a test for WRC Croatia 2026...
But also have in mind that some crews are using it as preparation for CER and also thinking about next season in WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doon
The only fair way to compare would be to move Ceredigion to be one of the early events in the year. And UK Motorsport could provide some funding for ferry costs etc like the other island events did.