Its snow, ice and rain in one place. Come to Ukraine to learn driving such a roads ;) Especially on pavementQuote:
Originally Posted by Zeropt
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Its snow, ice and rain in one place. Come to Ukraine to learn driving such a roads ;) Especially on pavementQuote:
Originally Posted by Zeropt
Sometimes I do not understand Novikov. It is clearly visible that this car will not make it to the end.. why he needs to make more damage to the car? It is very clear that with missing wheel it is not allowed to drive outside the stages. OK.It is hard to accept that it is over for him indeed.
Yes i know that, i`m just saying he couldn`t do anything there.Quote:
Originally Posted by uranium
The conditions were equal to everyone and as a competitor he`s always traying to get the best result, for example on that stage Buffier was 52.7s faster than Loeb...
He could not know what actually the damage is from inside. Why give up so easily when the car is still able to move somehow. Better reach the end of the stage and then try to repair it - remember Ogier at Spain 2010. This is (or at least initially used to be :( ) the spirit of RALLY.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
Precisely! ;)
Well, when the car moves 10 km/h and you have still nearly 20 km to go then it is rather easy to park it for a moment, go out and see if it is possible to repair it or reasonable to move forward.
If we compare Monte Carlo with the other events, it has an enormous advantage. Scheduled to be the opening round of the Championship, which has happened almost always the rally has been part of the calendar (I believe 1989 was the only exception), means that rally fans have been waiting for the rally for months. At the first rally we can see the teams' new signings as well the new cars, as happened this year in the Monte with the Polo. There are few things we like more than a new rally car (maybe only those girls we saw some pages ago :D ). If you add the unpredictable conditions of the stages and roads that have been used in a rally for more than a hundred years, we have the perfect recipe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
This cancelled stages were very logical in Dakar this year. There were two French riders who were on top of the results and it is organized by a French organisation. Last year Peterhansel hit a motoracing driver very hard in the mud, but he wasn't DSQ, he even didn't get a penalty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I feel the same with the Monte-Carlo: French driver, French team, French marque on top of the results and 4 Citroëns in the top 5. Maybe Citroën paid a bit to the FIA and the Monte-Carlo organizers to cancel these stages to have such good final results. It is not the first time that Citroën should do illegal things in the Rallye Monte-Carlo, remember the 2002 edition.
In MotoGP they cancel or shorten the races only when there is a Spanish rider in the first position, as example see the Malaysian event in 2012.
In F1, they even don't race in the rain in the past years, so that is not a real sport anymore for me.