Rallye Wrc Monte-Carlo 2013

JML's crash was brutal: Monte 2013 - A Video PlayList on Dailymotion

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Originally Posted by danon

This is the COC Decision - > http://www.rallyliveresults.com/acm/...SION%20No6.pdf

21 century. No explanation. No details.


Who is it about?
What happened?
When did it take place?
Where did it take place?
Why did it happen?
How did it happen?


Isn't he supposed to be an inteligent, expressive and well educated type of person.

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Loeb explained that the road section towards the start of turini stage is a narrow road, with spectators car parked on either side, leaving room for 1 car width only.
As some spectator started to leave turini after 1st pass, people going down, crew gravel going up = road blocked

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Originally Posted by gloomyDAY

JML's crash was brutal: Monte 2013 - A Video PlayList on Dailymotion

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Latvala crash is indeed brutal. Good to hear that crew is ok...

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Originally Posted by spiderem

Loeb explained that the road section towards the start of turini stage is a narrow road, with spectators car parked on either side, leaving room for 1 car width only.
As some spectator started to leave turini after 1st pass, people going down, crew gravel going up = road blocked

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The COC must state the reason for stopping the rally not Loeb or anybody else doing the clerk's job instead.

;)

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Originally Posted by Mirek

So after the night Turini was brought back in 2009 it was run 10x successfully and the 11th run was canceled and You act like it was the end of the world, eh? They canceled 6 stages last year in Portugal, every year there are canceled stages in Argentina. So what? Will we kick these rallies out of the calendar? It's part of the game and it has always been part of the game. It doesn't mater if it's usual terrible weather in Argentina or too few access roads in France, or people hidden in wineyards on dangerous places in Alsace or anything else. These are circumstances which make some events more difficult to organize.

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Yes, this is true, but you have to wonder how on earth it was possible to run, say, the 1986 event over 34 stages with no stage cancellations, while in 2013 two of just 18 stages ended up being called off. Something's not right there.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

What matters is that the iconic events and stages appeal to the public much more than uniform maybe non-problematic events of the modern WRC.

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Absolutely. Just think how many more people could experience this appeal if rallies were again allowed to be run over longer routes, more stages and more days.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

Yes, this is true, but you have to wonder how on earth it was possible to run, say, the 1986 event over 34 stages with no stage cancellations, while in 2013 two of just 18 stages ended up being called off. Something's not right there.

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Probably because in 1986 they didnt care about emergency services access or spectator safety or competitor safety......

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Originally Posted by &quot

You have a point there, so why FIA sacrifice the most important thing - safety?

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This was the plan. Citroën knew the last stages would be cancelled.

As the picture on the previous page shows.
How do you all expect to get rally cars to the stage. The clark of the course saiz road blocked, thats explanstion enough. We all rember the travel chaos on the Network Q Rally GB, around Sweetlamb Hafren in the mid 90s. Then we had a double width road, and the WRC cars had trouble getting through. All though i dont belive any stages were cancelled, they were run up to an huor late. That was not possible with the Monte, as the stages were all ready late.
There was just no way of getting cars up to that stage, not with spectators trying to leave, and come back down the mountain.
Maybe 3 runs was too many over Turini, its a great Monte stage yes. BUt maybe a morning run, then a night run, with enough time in between for spectators to move.
Or, if you spectate Turini, maybe stop people leaving till after the last car, of the last run.

Steve

A half an hour before Es16 starts, i was not allowed to drive the last 8 kilometers to reach Moulinet. The road was blocked to allow ambulances to descend.

As for the cancelled stages, i was told the vast majority of spectators gave up after es16 as loads and loads of frozen rain started to fall. No over choice to cancel for the clark.

Has anyone found any high res (1080P) pics which could be used as a wallpaper?