Wonder how this could suddenly happen as WRC.com has been providing live times and splits for years now...Quote:
Originally Posted by KiwiWRCfan
Very poor, especially coinciding with ALL LIVE on Monte Carlo (which wasnt) and didnt show many splits.
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Wonder how this could suddenly happen as WRC.com has been providing live times and splits for years now...Quote:
Originally Posted by KiwiWRCfan
Very poor, especially coinciding with ALL LIVE on Monte Carlo (which wasnt) and didnt show many splits.
I think the article explains how it happened pretty well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Anybody who's ever looked at the codebase for WRC+ can tell it's amateur hour over there. Heck, even the site design for wrc.com looks like something a high schooler made on Microsoft Frontpage 15 years ago. But they're getting better, slowly.
Miss-integration between two services is well explained?Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
This is something that a lot of services have trouble with after starting out or making major changes and I just can not understand it. How can they let this happen? The amount of requests can't be a surprise for them, they must have some previous data and be able to calculate a safe buffer.Quote:
At more than 3 million requests per hour, the public-facing API became overloaded
Still, non of the issues that revealed themselves during the launch was a surprise and I'm quite confident it will be stabilized quite quickly.
"Unfortunately, WRC.com's systems and ours were not integrated correctly, and traffic from the spectating public was forwarded to our servers. At more than 3 million requests per hour, the public-facing API became overloaded. WRC.com was temporarily disabled in order to allow the rest of our clients - including the AC de Monaco - stable access to timing information. Since then, we've worked with WRC.com to ensure the problem isn't repeated"Quote:
Originally Posted by tr4m
What more do you need to know? The names of the people at WRC.com who screwed it up?
Well, I guess that's what happens if I start reading and commenting before finishing my first coffee. Somehow I totally missed that part, thanks for bolding it our for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
No need for the names of the people in WRC who screwed up, as it seems I was the one who screwed up even the most basic task of reading.
So if I understood correctly the WRC site was constructed in a way that every time you reloaded the splits page it made a request to the RallySafe API to load the times, whereas they could and should have had just one connection from the WRC site to RallySafe API and saved the times to WRC site for the public requests. The WRC site can handle heavy traffic, RallySafe API is not designed for that.
How it happened, yes. But not why it happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
Interesting interview with Wayne Christie, new president of FIA Rally commission: https://rallysportmag.com/interview-...es-commission/
Toyota team museum. https://rallysportmag.com/aladins-ca...-museum150218/
It's going to be interesting to see someone "from the other side of the barricade" in this post. He's someone well aware of what real issues of rallying in distant countries are and that is for sure a positive thing. So in this moment I wish him good luck.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
New president = same idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
No wonder if people in Asia-Pacific treat him like a traitor. They have developed a working solution with big interest in it, but now it must be destroyed because some lobby of people in France chose the number 1600 and want to force everyone to obey it. Such a dark-age catholicism.Quote:
“In my country we developed the AP4 concept. Now we have nine or 10 different makes involved. All the cars look different. I understand that a lot of the local distributors have got behind this concept, which is a good thing.
“My role is to encourage the growth of rallying round the world. The FIA, however, speaks about global concepts of competition cars such as 1.6 turbo engines. It hasn’t been lost on me that Australasia has gone off in a different direction!
“While the AP4 concept is being developed, there is a three year moratorium and many cars use 1.8 litre engines, but from the 2020 season cars will need to have a 1.6 litre engine to be classified as AP4.
“Part of the problem is that the 1.6 engines have been very expensive and relatively unreliable. People prefer to downsize a 1.8 engine which is a bit more reliable, doesn’t cost quite as much, but certainly there is only a place for the 1.6 engines from the 2020 season.”
Safari Rally to return...
https://www.motorsport-news.co.uk/ne...eturn-by-2020/
nice.
If it will be special as it used to be it would be a strong addiction to the championship and very much welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by T16
If it has to be the same as other rallys than it's not that great news.
In the 80's and early 90's Safari had as much competitive kilometres as the whole WRC season. It's not going to work. The past is gone, just accept it, let it go and move forwards.Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
This is the candidate event. All closed special stages like modern rallies, no driving without helmets on open roads. 200 stage kms. https://www.ewrc-results.com/timetab...ri-rally-2018/ Of course it would be a bit longer as a WRC event, but probably mostly the same.
I think it would be a strong addition just for being in Africa. With the additions of Japan and Canada, the WRC would cover more continents than any other Racing series, making it the most legit World Championship which is something to boast about and therefore nice for marketing.
Will we see Safari version of the 2017 cars..?Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
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I regret to say I have my doubts. The stages will probably be more tame. Less rough, without passing thigh deep mud. I would love to see those beasts with front protection, snorkles and a crazy ride height though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arnold Triyudho Wardono
In this case I'm not talking about competitive kilometres. The format in that matter is not going to change for sure and will be the same as the other events. I'm talking about road characteristcs and the character of the event in general.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Me too I have doubts, especially if it will be expensive. But IMO it would be a great addition if that will happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arnold Triyudho Wardono
10k stages on a Safari? Closed roads? 300k total? No, thank you. I would rather see the DVDs of the great adventure events of old. PCs can keep that event for themselves.
I think that with this kind of mindset Safari would have never existed in a first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
In David Evans' other article on this story for Autosport, he says:Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
"The Safari Rally has continued to run since it was dropped from the WRC calendar 16 years ago, but the modern-day African Championship version is a shadow of the event's heyday.
A return to the WRC would likely mean a route similar to the 2002 event, which included 627 competitive miles in 12 sections across three days."
https://www.autosport.com/wrc/news/1...wrc-return-bid
Now, feel free to take that with a pinch of salt as I am, but if correct, or even near correct, that'd be great. Here's the 2002 Safari Rally itinerary: https://www.ewrc-results.com/timetab...ri-rally-2002/
Even within the current regulations for a WRC round, pushing the boundaries just a bit you could run 3 70km SS twice on Friday and Saturday, with one 60km SS and a 10km PS on Sunday, you'd have a 910km event. Obviously they'd need to have a tire fitting after each stage at least. That'd be nearly three times the length of many of the current WRC rallies, so to me worthy of an 'endurance' tag.
Will be interesting to see how many backroom deals surface following Rally Sweden.
Thoughts on Latvala's mental state? My heart is aching already from his comments throughout Sweden and his lack of speed throughout. He was never bad but never beat Tanak in a fair flat out fight and that began getting to his head, especially since it was in Sweden.
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I think it's too early to do that. But with almost all contracts end at the 2018 (except Mikkelsen and Tanak) it will be interesting where everyone will go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mk2 RS2000
Hot list:
1. Neuville (Hyundai)
2. Ogier (M-Sport, Hyundai???, Citroen doesn't have money, Toyota will not show interest)
3. Latvala (Toyota)
4. Lappi (Toyota)
5. Breen (he is only one that can drive C3 properly)
6. Paddon (he is aiming at staying at Hyundai)
7. Sordo (Same as Paddon, except if he will retire)
8. Meeke (no one probably will probably want him)
9. Suninen (M-Sport)
10. Tidemand (where it will be free seat probably)
It definitely doesn't look good (from JML's perspective). Tänak's been faster both in MC and now in Sweden and he's probably only getting better and better with the Yaris as the season progresses.Quote:
Originally Posted by steve.mandzij
Latvala is the only full season works driver without a stage win this year. He also admitted at one stage end he has nothing on Tänak's pace. Doesn't look good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Allez Andruet
That's quite amazing :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
It was a terrible moment (mentally) at the end of stage 12 when Latvala couldn't believe Tänak's time after seeing it on the board. He asked Colin Clark what Tänak's time was and didn't look too happy after finding out the time on the board was indeed correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Wouldn’t be all that surprised if Latvala is consistently the third quickest Toyota driver in the not too distant future. Lappi outperformed him in Sweden also.
Ok. Bashing Latvala is your mission, boys. But the season just started. And JML still is among the top five, six fastest in WRC. Should be a lot more drivers to complain about as well...
Agree. By the way Tanak finished behind Latvala here and is standing behind also in overall. Maybe he is playing like Ogier always do. Fast when can and take points when can.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Yeh, he's third in the points. Not bad. It's not that I'm bashing him, more that I'm worried of him. It's one of his last chances to win the drivers title, and it seems he's out of pace for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Never. It's just very alarming (if you're rooting for JML for the title like I am) that he wasn't the fastest Toyota in Sweden. A) because it's Sweden and B) because no-one has done more testing with the Yaris on snow than JML. I think the common opinion (and probably the way JML had planned it himself) was that Latvala would have been the number one in the TGR squad during the first quarter or half of the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
If you know Latvala, that is just how he is during rallies. He knows how fast he can drive, and if at stage end he finds thats not enough he is very quick to admit he doesn't know how others do it. You could probably go back to last years rally sweden and find him saying the same thing to Miikka in onboard footage after a stage. That is, if they still have onboard mics enabled for previous rallies, as for this year Toyota's onboards are exceptionally quick to cut the incar audio feed, as if they dont want to let you hear Jari-Matti venting to Miikka after every stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Yes I was very worried about Tanak going to Toyota (M. Martin experience in mind).
Now I am more worried Latvala will go back to 2016 state.
wtf bashing?...it is a pure fact that he was the slowest of the Toyotas in Sweden, one of his favourite and strongest rallies...and in Monte at times he was also the third Toyota speedwise...
of course, the season is only two rallies in but like some of the guys say here, it is quite alarming for him. I certainly expected him to be the fastest Toyota driver in the beginning of the season.
Only that why we should worry, knowing what kind of personality he is? Then we should know he could win in Mexico within only a few weeks, for example. Happend before.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Latvala himself said in an interview before the season started that it will be tough for Tänak to step into a new car.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight