Lappi takes second place from Sykora on final stage! :)
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Lappi takes second place from Sykora on final stage! :)
I'm back. I took it easy and watched complete field only on SS2/5 with a visit of a restaurant between :) Very nice places after all (especially SS5), pity those are only for one year till the new main road is opened. The weather made it difficult, a bit foggy, cold, light rain and a very dirty road. Especially where I was there were fast turns in opened fields with nothing to prevent cutting so You can imagine how it looked like :) You will definitely see them on videos, I saw Polish guys with video cameras there (maybe OES Records?).
Lappi was very impressive considering his experience on asphalt. It came to my mind that in March 2009 when I first saw Juho on our stages (Valašská rally) he looked definitely slower than Esapekka is now. For Juho it took just half a year to first time beat Kopecký on asphalt (Bohemia 2009). Let's see what Esapekka can do. The potential is sure there!
Sýkora was also good. In fact he looked faster than his times as opposed to Kostka who was very clean and tidy as always. From gr.N drivers Jakeš looked without doubts fastest. Some nice action also from the guys with high numbers. It's interesting that there was no retirement or big problem from top crews.
Final standings
1. Kostka (Fiesta WRC) 41:03,9
2. Lappi (Fabia S2000) +36,6
3. Odložilík (Xsara WRC) +39,5
4. Sýkora (Fabia S2000) +1:15,2
5. Kahle (Octavia WRC) +1:40,7
6. Jakeš (Evo IX Gr.N) +1:41,9
7. Dohnal (207 S2000) +2:55,8
8. Plíhal (Octavia WRC) +2:59,2
9. Tomaštík (Impreza S12B) +3:00,9
10. Małyszczycki (Evo IX Gr.N) +3:20,8
Any pics of the fiesta wrc of Kostka??
PX 60 AVE from Wevers if You ask for that ;)
http://i42.tinypic.com/335bojk.jpg
Photo by jonas3 from autosport.cz forum
Plenty of photos to come later, don't worry.
Lappi - Ferm onboard SS3
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Quite a moment there at around six minutes... And they just laugh. :)
I cracked up in the finish, Ferm ending his commentary "that was quite kopecky-like, tididididi" :D
Now i can see this stage was heavily changed this year and it was not so boring how it was in the past :)
i was enyoing today also. i was on ss1,service and ss5.Lappi is really spectacullar on ss1 big sideways on third corner of the stage.i will put a link on my photo gallery later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2TWKKhnnf0&feature=youtu.be
Nice onboard of Sýkora from SS2 with several mistakes
http://www.mediasport.cz/rally/onboardy/4613.html
And old-school sideways style of Kahle from SS1 :)
http://www.mediasport.cz/rally/onboardy/4611.html
First top entries on Rallysprint Kopna: Kostka (Fiesta WRC), Tlustak (Lancer WRC 05), Tarabus (Fabia s2000), Grzyb (Fabia s2000), Kahle (Octavia WRC)