Morning rallyfans! Exciting days to come!
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Morning rallyfans! Exciting days to come!
Neuville through with 130.1 km/h but Evans and Ogier are faster
Seems all spikes survived first stage on Neuville car. Speeds are insanly good to watch 😀
Ogier with a lot of mistakes last sections
This stage is in good condition, next one is worse
Great time from Evans. Rovanperä coming well
Fiestas again off pace, like Finland last year
lack of top driver in a team :/Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Yep,hard to tell whether it's the drivers or car as no proper reference.Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Superb times from Evans and Kalle - what a talent that boy is. Amazing.
And/or factory team budgetQuote:
Originally Posted by KKS
I should say enginepower...(?)Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
I'm not sure if I can watch Latvala react on his time at the finish...
Latvala..., talking about confidence (or the lack of)..., oh well. Nothing ever changes.
Seems road getting worse for late starters. Very poor time for Breen and Latvala :(
Katsuta pace. It should be some proper explanation.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
I hope it's all down to road condition.
Tyres fading after heating up. Less ice cooling studs...Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Great start by Evans bodes well for the rally. Hope he can keep it going right through this time.
Hard to know if it is down to luck with conditions or what, but man Latvala and Been need to gain a lot.
Fiestas seem like they are just slow.
Funny inforrmation as they have no other option than studded tyres...Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Evans was superb on this stage last year too, on second pass. Surprised by the loss by Latvala and Breen
Four, five or six ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
U can get 6 tyres instead of 5Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
If you lose studs on gravel road 1 extra fresh tyre could make a difference
SS Nightmare_of_a_day - should be next, as we know from recce :/
They have more tyre changes so no point carrying extra weight on such a fast rallyQuote:
Originally Posted by KKS
After SS2 there's a normal tyre zone with a fresh tyre set, but I heard after SS3 there's an extra extra tyre change where they can get two more fresh tyres.
In another news, sunday's forecast has turned from bad to worse
Latvala not so much. He is lucky the rally wasn't cancelled and many € thrown away like Paddon last year. Pointless risking throwing it away at this early stage. Have to consider the different mindset of being employed by a team and not costing much if you crash, compared to funding your own drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
uh oh, lots of rainQuote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
https://www.yr.no/place/Sweden/V%C3%...%A4s/long.html
yupQuote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
https://rallysweden.com/wp-content/u...letin-no-4.pdf
Oh. Didn't notice that TFZ after SS2 :/. My bad. So yep, no need to carry extra tyre for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
So first two stages today and tomorrow will have 100% fresh tyre and 3rd one is 50% of fresh tyres.
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
TFZ after SS2: take 6 tyres, put 2 in the boot. Extra TFZ after SS3, take 2 fresh tyres and 2 from the boot. All fresh tyres for SS4.
For SS8 you will have 6 tyres, each having done about 20 km of stages. It's a short stage completely on gravel. No problem.
BTW do not click the spam links that appear here frequently
Yeah. Suddenly they started to pop up. Havent seen it before. How come?Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Road not so bad on Finskogen so far as we see on AllLive. Comments after recce was more stronger about conditions
There is more gravel on this stage than SS2Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Michelin Motorsport
#Tyre info: SS3/SS4/SSS8 All the @Michelin @OfficialWRC drivers with 6 MICHELIN X-Ice North 3
It was not frozen then, and theres more gravel at the 2nd half of the stageQuote:
Originally Posted by KKS
We cannot change it, so please stop spamming and enjoy the rally! 😀Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
No splits on WRC.com
Edit: Here they are...
Dont know if it works abroadQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
https://sport.postimees.ee/wrc/splittimes