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Every fatal accident has his specifics. I think to the belgian guys who lost their life in their last race, when they rent an Evo. So - uranium - thats right. Everybody has possibility to go with big and fast cars without experience. Step by step could be useful, but I also remember fatal accidents in past with Fiat Cinquecento, here in Austria, 14 years ago. No chance to get out of the damaged cars, and it was class A5. Small cars have a big risk, also with low power. Two accidents that year, both driver and codriver died.

The specific problem in Italy past weekend was, first it was night, and there is a big discuss now in Italy, because drivers behind didnt helped. It was night, and they thought drivers were out of car. Also the car was not really on the road, so they didnt seen it. The fire comes not immediately, it comes 4-5 minutes after the crash, but driver and codriver were injured and cannot go out for theirself. Also the bad position of the car after the crash didnt allowed to go out very fast.

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Originally Posted by uranium

I'd like to pay attention that rally is very specific sport. It doesn't have leagues, qualifications etc.
Everybody can sit rather immediatelly into S2k car. Isn't it also the reason of crashes and tragedies? Rally allow to skip any steps and drive anything your want, only because you have money.
Shortly, I'd like to see rally more like to boxing. I beleive nobody will go to fight Klichko even he is billionere. You must do a lot of step by steps, achieve next level and then only to drive on faster machinery.

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I agree, the possibility to take a seat in an high tech rallye car right out from the driving school should get banned!

But Semerad and Breen are both fast and experienced rallye pilots, although they are still young! About Catelani I´m not sure, but at least he had some years of experience, Pelech was experienced as well and not in a superfast car.

Rallying will allways be a risky and dangerous sport, I don´t think there is a specific reason why this year so many tragic accidents happened so far, I really hope it was the last deadly rally accident for a long time now.

My condolences to family and friends of Valerio and Daniela, and to the whole italian rally family!

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Originally Posted by tommeke_B

Sad news about our sport, again... :(
In Rally di Lucca Valerio Catelani and his co Daniela Bertoneri both died after their Peugeot 207 S2000 caught fire. (Source:
Tragedia al Rally di Lucca: muoiono pilota e navigatrice - Corriere.it)

R.I.P. ...

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;(

3"3 gap between Althaus and Ballinari after two stages Rally Valli Cuneesi(swiss championship) ;)
http://www.cronometristi.net/public/...201/index.html

Next weekend rally Alpi Orientali (this year is valid for TRA and not for CIR)-it is 99% sure, that Luca Rossetti will attend this rally (it is his home rallye) with his Fabia S2000. On the other hand, no Felice Re, as he won all races in TRA this season...At least hope for his son Alesandro with DS3R3T.
If Luca comes, he will give some lessons to WRC drivers (Porro, DeCecco, Fontana).....It will be also a nice comparison for Alex Humar, who is unbeatable this year in Slovenia (the race is valid for Slovenian championship) as both are in the same cars.

Entrylist Friuli published on 48° Rally del Friuli - Alpi Orientali | 31 Agosto - 1° Settembre 2012 ;)

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Originally Posted by Tom206wrc

Entrylist Friuli published on 48° Rally del Friuli - Alpi Orientali | 31 Agosto - 1° Settembre 2012 ;)

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is this the seeded list ?

car 78 marko jeram ???? seems way too far down

Few sentences over Rally Alpi Orientali-I was yesterday whole day spectating it and I managed to see four yesterday's stages (out of six). First to the overal winner: Paolo Porro-he was already from the spectating clearly the fastest, very nice lines, smooth, Focus WRC has amazing grip....Luca Rosseti-nothing to add to one of the best world rally driver, reasonably the fastest driver in S2000 class. There were also others, who impressed me: Crungola, Martinis, Re, DeLuna. I was also positively impressed over Megan N4 performance, the car is very loud and has huge torque, somethimes to much....
One word for our Slovenian drivers: it is clearly that they are not used to drive on the surface, which has so much grip. They still drive rough, breaking to much, the lines were not ideal, as that they do not trust to the grip. Therefore our driver Humar had no chance against L.Rossetti. But at the end-fourth place for him is a very good result.

Surprise !!!! Next week Robert Kubica will run the Rally San Martino di Castrozza, counting for CIR and TRA... :eek: :eek:

He will run in a Subaru Impreza WRC in the TRA part ;)

Kubica torna a gareggiare e farà un rally! - Rally / Autosprint - Auto.it