[WRC] News & rumours (part II)

I think Argentina is a great rally but it deserved to get caught out!!!!

I've seen many organisators using the rally's history and past for the continuation of it, but they dont really work and they dont care, so i think they deserved it and maybe next year they will think 2 times before screwing up!!!!

And dont give us that crap about "because its historic it must be on the calendar"....The decision off rotative rallys is one of the few things, if not the only thing, FIA has decided to do right in last 2 years. People bitched about it and now they have seen some amazing new rallyes!!!!

I think F.Delacour had hard accident in Australia (2001 or 2002) after big stone hit windscreen..

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Originally Posted by Francis44

I think Argentina is a great rally but it deserved to get caught out!!!!

I've seen many organisators using the rally's history and past for the continuation of it, but they dont really work and they dont care, so i think they deserved it and maybe next year they will think 2 times before screwing up!!!!

And dont give us that crap about "because its historic it must be on the calendar"....The decision off rotative rallys is one of the few things, if not the only thing, FIA has decided to do right in last 2 years. People bitched about it and now they have seen some amazing new rallyes!!!!

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What amazing new Rallies?? Apart from Poland which was good.

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Originally Posted by Barreis

I think F.Delacour had hard accident in Australia (2001 or 2002) after big stone hit windscreen..

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Neither of Delecour's big crashes in Australia happened after rocks hit his windscreen.

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

What amazing new Rallies?? Apart from Poland which was good.

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Well good you haven't seen more than a new rally this year so dont go that way!!!!

I saw different on onboard.. First bang on windscreen and after that big crash..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WezXQ9GhC4

Maybe some kangaroo was eating.. So piece of food went straight into the windscreen..

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Originally Posted by Francis44

The decision off rotative rallys is one of the few things, if not the only thing, FIA has decided to do right in last 2 years.

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Luckily the rotation is history.

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Originally Posted by Francis44

People bitched about it and now they have seen some amazing new rallyes!!!!

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Maybe a rally like Jordan where the only spectators where camels.

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Originally Posted by Barreis

I saw different on onboard.. First bang on windscreen and after that big crash..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WezXQ9GhC4

Maybe some kangaroo was eating.. So piece of food went straight into the windscreen..

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That wasn´t a stone thrown from spectators that broke the windscreen, if you watch it again you can see that he hits something really hard in left front wheel and the impact is so hard that the windscreen broke

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Originally Posted by OldF

Luckily the rotation is history.




Maybe a rally like Jordan where the only spectators where camels.

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And because of that it was not a good rally??!!

Please dont tell me even before the rally started you didnt know that there was going to be no spectators, they made the rally for propagation of it's country, and they did it well. It's better to have no spectators than have them throwing rocks!!!!

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Originally Posted by Barreis

I saw different on onboard.. First bang on windscreen and after that big crash..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WezXQ9GhC4

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:D Yeah that was a rock for sure...NOT

In case you didn't know, the windscreen is attached to the car's chassis quite firmly. Actually (atleast in non-racing cars) the windscreen has a huge impact on the stiffness of the chassis (in the front sections). If I recall correctly, in some Pilkington's manual it said around 80 percent! :eek:

WRC cars take such a pounding nowdays that it's quite normal to see a crack of somesort in the windscreen. In that particular crash the first impact (with a tree stump or something like that) twisted the chassis so badly that the glass couldn't cope with the twist and cracked. Same thing with Mikko in 2008 Argentina, one rock hit so hard that the chassis bent to such extent that Mikko was unable to open his door and windscreen cracked.