Rallye Wrc Monte-Carlo 2013

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Originally Posted by WUff1

According to Rally Radio too many people on the road and stages.

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But this is not so suprising in RMC. Sorry for the spectators out there in the montains. (and sorry for us)

Al to all for me that was the most spectacular RMC in 10 years , bad that I missed this one in live.

Citroen:
Seeing Ogier there is no garantie for the title for Citroen. Mikko dissapointed but ok KKK was also not shining in RMC. It will be hard for him even against Sordo. Sordo good as usual. It will be interesting to see without team orders this year
Loeb - the master, we will miss him in 1-2 years even it was boring the title fight in the past years.

VW
Ogier very quick even this rally one of his favorite. His style still needs to improved. Latvala - If he continue like at Ford with crashes, his carrier will be in risk.
Congrat to VW - the experience not count if you have enough money you can buy it. They have

Ford - young talents on tricky conditions, sorry for them, they will shine on some races for sure this year if Loeb out for circuit racing.

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Originally Posted by oerigh

This is just rubbish! Monte-Carlo doesn't deserve to be on next year's calendar!

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Originally Posted by rp

Maybe this can happen only in France :-( Surely it is very difficult to control spectators and the weather was bad, but it should be the highest level of world rallying and we all remember the past in Monte Carlo. Now there were no two decisives stages at all..

Of course the best drivers were still in the game.

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You should go there to see the situation. There are extremely few roads in the mountains and the spectators very easily block them especially when in the south people don't use winter tyres a lot. Really go there for that experience because otherwise You can't understand how easy it is and that the organization can't do anything against that except running whole rally in the north out of these iconic stages.

Do You know why they run most of the rally during working week? Now You see the answer...

Pitty as some drivers maybe had kept their tyres for the final stages.

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Originally Posted by T.Maanteiden kuningas

Great job Mikko!!!! Awesome!

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wich mikko do you mean exactly???

I am afraid this was for a long time last attempt for night Turini. Many years a go they stopped with it due to these troubles. In the IRC they brought it back but there were somewhat less spectators so it was working. Last year was ok with easy, relatively warm weather and dry. I guess next year they either end the rally on Friday or won't run night stages in Alpes Maritimes.

Quite disaster, timing problems a lot and now cancelled stages.. Some homework to do RMC next year.

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Originally Posted by Racing Ka

Quite disaster, timing problems a lot and now cancelled stages.. Some homework to do RMC next year.

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Timing problems - nothing to do with RMC organisers
Cancelled stages - it happen on other rounds also sometimes
Look for the positives also. We had some in the past days.

Juho's car:

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Photo: Julian Porter

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Originally Posted by Mirek

You should go there to see the situation. There are extremely few roads in the mountains and the spectators very easily block them especially when in the south people don't use winter tyres a lot. Really go there for that experience because otherwise You can't understand how easy it is and that the organization can't do anything against that except running whole rally in the north out of these iconic stages.

Do You know why they run most of the rally during working week? Now You see the answer...

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I agree that I don't know what the actual conditions were. My problem with this thing is that the organizers DELIBARETLY DECIDED to have the last stages run in the dark. It was an unacceptable mistake from their part to make that misjudgement.