hahaha I was jokingQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
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hahaha I was jokingQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
What were your impressions from being there in person...?Quote:
Originally Posted by Simorally86
Neuville drove Autoglym rally in Finland and Østberg did Rally Hedemarken?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarmop
Back home after a great rally. Really nice event in a great social setting. Couple that with the gravel and tarmac you really do have the best of both worlds. Made up for Meeke. He crashed right in front of me in Germany on the SSS and honestly I didn't know how he was going to come back from that. As soon as it hit tarmac that C3 was absolutely on rails.
Big storylines, action and unpredictability in every event. The WRC really is in a great place right now.
I got my photos uploaded if anyone fancies a look: https://www.flickr.com/photos/949985...57686023586812
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4453/...87e8f795_z.jpg6 by Richard Simpson, on Flickr
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4460/...de467c69_z.jpg27 by Richard Simpson, on Flickr
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4497/...de4652a7_z.jpg2 by Richard Simpson, on Flickr
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4489/...37c69468_z.jpg3 by Richard Simpson, on Flickr
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4489/...14145fd6_z.jpg8 by Richard Simpson, on Flickr
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4481/...c3624b83_z.jpg1 by Richard Simpson, on Flickr
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4477/...1a6c6ef3_z.jpg5 by Richard Simpson, on Flickr
Rally RACC actually has a Sunday that's better than virtually all the other event; including a nice early start - 74km is a decent amount; far better than the 40-ish km quite a lot of events go for. If you have Sunday; then make it worthwhile.
you sad bastards. i believe Kris actually lived with McRae family, and without him he woundnt have a career. so fucking show some respect.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
But it comes at the cost of the other days, friday and saturday was just three stages ran twice. And even them were run very quickly after each other, the wrc radio couldn't even interview all drivers before the first ones were already in the finish of the next one, it made the days kinda silly with a rush of stages and then lots of waiting.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
For me this is another advantage. I can follow on PC for 2 hours then go (out) and do something else for a few hours I instead of 30 min breaks between all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
yeh, there's two sides to this. But I'd just love to have a proper rally following day, I usually just put on the WRC radio and do other things meanwhile. When the stages overlap, it's hard to follow the WRC2 guys or even the rest of the WRC cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
another photo of the point
http://forum-rallye.com/uploads/mont...1507648411.jpg
No idea if someone has mentioned before: Wilson actually asked Tanak to ease up, after Sunday’s first loop.
Q:
How hard were you pushing on the final day?
OT:
For sure I was doing my best. I couldn’t make any mistakes because of the points – I was close to the limit. In the morning, we never had the gap more than one second [between Ogier and Tanak], it was close. After the break I had a phone call from Malcolm [Wilson, team principal]. He was laughing for about 10 seconds, but then he said: “That’s enough now.” Then we have really good points. I knew Seb is kind of controlling this thing and I didn’t have any tools to beat him today. This is how it had to end.
Full post event conference https://www.fia.com/news/wrc-kmeeke-...-special-drive
Yes, this was written already on sunday in estonian media that Wilson used teamorders.
Well there we go. It was going to happen sooner or later for Ott since he is now battling at the top.
Yeah and this is how Tanak's wheel looked like from that...Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
but still it was on the car.. not trailing on the side like Hyundais, sure they could have been a few cms more to the side, or (more likely in view) their wheels were turned more out.
Anyway quite lucky he got no loss of air from that. Also remember one of his rims looked about the same after PowerStage in germany.
Thank god that Malcom used teamorders. This may be also the reason that M-Sport had two drivers on the podium...and not in the ditch or with provoked technical troubles due to driving over the limit....Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
nice pictures kid... but you are not a pro... too little photoshop/filter crap and no lakes or flowers and too much focus on the cars...Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
i am dissapointed...
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ucci
And 'team-orders' is a bit of an exaggeration. Telling your second driver to hold position when he is already behind your leader and has an inferior car (gravel gearbox) is just common sense.
https://www.facebook.com/fzrvideo/vi...2050667808713/ Stunning to see such a situation being taken flat out.
best spot from Spain till now,bravo to the uploader!!I want more cars from this spot.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Any idea, what stage is this from? Would love to check the onboard.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Yes seriously epic. Perfect spot.
reminds me a bit like this from Loeb tests for Monte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlvasUE2HUo
So, Wilson calling his drivers to ease up is just common sense…let’s see what you’ll say on other team bosses in the future. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Btw, at the end of SS16 Tanak was 1.8s behind Ogier and during the morning the French was only 0.25s faster than him; he looked prepared to fight for P2 till the end.
Seems like a cool spot, do you know where it is?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
SS Terra Alta. 41°11'24.58"N ; 0°23'44.31"EQuote:
Originally Posted by Duvel
the same cut for all drivers at this video.
from these cameras seems that fiestas cutted like hyundais.You can watch the big bump was visible inside the cars.Of course again few centimetres could do the difference.
The irony is that Meeke had the cleanest pass from this spot
https://www.facebook.com/FanClubTNNG...7111482010660/
It's also hard to compare passes between different cars due to slightly different camera placement.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
But I agree that especially Tanak was as much in as Sordo/Mikkelsen (and the damaged wheel confirms that). Neuville was imo visible more left than them.
Note the person warning Meeke just before the turn on the left. In the WRC highlights they said it was Sordo. None of the other drivers get any warning as far as I can seen.
Well, they are good friends based on social media posts, so maybe thats why he's only warning him.
Ye, seen some talk about Sordo warning everyone except Mikkelsen due to Mikkelsen coming in and "stealing" a seat. Don't look like that's the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
So what, they should fight and risk both their positions and team points with Hyundai in disaray ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
I don't get all the fuss about possible team orders to hold the positions between Tanak and Ogier.
Do you really think Malcom ora any other team boss would risk both championships because team orders are bad? What was the point NOT TO give team orders in that occasion?
No one is doing a fuss mate, just mentioning the fact that one title contender told in a press conference he was ordered to ease up. Why should we (and the press, btw) ignore it? Especially when the order came from the same team boss that a couple of days before publicly announced there would not be any orders at all?Quote:
Originally Posted by AL14
'Team orders' in rallying has a bad connotation, as it usually implies an inferior driver being told to slow to let a better one pass.
But in this case the driver in front was the No.1. The No.2 driver was behind and with a car with an issue (gravel gearbox).
There is no big fuss being made in this case, as no-one thinks telling the No.2 driver to hold station is in any way a bad thing. Ogier & Tanak were not neck-and-neck for the title - Ogier had a clear lead.
M-Sport were about to virtually ensure the Manufacturer's championship AND have a 1-2 in the Driver's. No sane person would put that at risk by fighting among themselves.
There is nothing wrong with team orders, as long as both drivers are OK with it. Was Tanak happy? I don't know, hope he was.
Whether he was happy or not was irrelevant... it's a team sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by jparker
If he thought fighting Ogier was a sensible idea at that point in the rally/season then he has a lot to learn.
Well, i think he was ok, because they were allowed to compete pretty much from the 2. half of 2. day till the 2. half of 3. day. Ogier was raising his advantage, there wasn`t much point and if there would have been a mistake from Ogier, then probably he would`ve beaten him.