Jansson will contest the 2018 Finnish season with his Mitsu :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
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Jansson will contest the 2018 Finnish season with his Mitsu :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Other confirmed is Emil Lindholm with Fabia R5 (1st driver in new GRX Try Out, car is from Marcus Grönholm and serviced by Printsport)
99% sure is Eerik Pietarinen with Fabia R5 (he has entered in small village event 6.january 2018 with Gardemaister car)
Eerik Pietarinen now confirmed for full FRC season in Gardemeister's car and Pirellis. They are also eyeing on Rally Finland and maybe even other WRC2 start later in the season.
TGS plans to run 2-4 cars on each FRC event. TGS is now also entering and servicing Marko Mänty's Fabia.
A good handful of entries now for FRC and hopefully some more still. For example no talk yet about Rallybaron's two i20 R5s. Pienizanek have entered Arctic Rally and runs a Printsport car now. Maybe more events in Finland for him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Ss0JG0X4Q anybody knows where to find Kaloppi ralli results?
http://www.mut-palvelu.fi/online2011...=all&ek=m&lk=1Quote:
Originally Posted by electroliquid
https://akk.autourheilu.fi/Public/Ki...n.aspx?id=6219
Entry list with numbers to ArcticRally/Tunturiralli, total 135 crews. 18 x R5, 3 x WRC, one S2000 and one R-Lite/Proto4wd
Very nice entrylisthttp://www.motorsportforums.com/images/icons/icon14.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Level of foreign competitors is very good, up to 5 of those are Top10 material.Quote:
Originally Posted by wwbroe
Jari Ketomaa will drive Rallybaron's i20 R5 this season in FRC. He will most probably start from his home event in Mikkeli in February. He will drive on DMacks.
Arctic Lapland Rally 2018
https://samzon.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Arctic...+Rally++01.18/ :crazy:
Very nice photos ;) But there is thread about rally in Finland http://www.motorsportforums.com/show...p-news/page105
Young drivers excelled in Arctic rally.
Pietarinen 1st dominating the event. Lindholm 2nd after Asunmaa went off on last stage from second place. Katsuta a somewhat surprise 3rd
Quite a line up for SM Vaakuna-Ralli! 16 R5's - 11 Fabias, 3 Fiesta's, 1 Peugeot and 1 Hyundai!
Title favourite Eerik Pietarinen is looking for his 3rd win in a row.
Kalle Rovanperä is back defending his last years overall victory.
Former WRC driver Jani Paasonen back for his first proper rally since 2012.
Former WRC2 driver Jari Ketomaa's first outing in Hyundai R5.
Fast Russian Nikolay Gryazin also looking to improve from his last years 3rd place finish.
+ many others.
https://image.prntscr.com/image/zk5t...AMnkK-njew.png
https://akk.autourheilu.fi/Public/Ki...n.aspx?id=6337
Entry list with numbers to SM VaakunaRalli, Mikkeli (held same time as WRC Sweden, that is why some "top" drivers are missing)
Question to finnish:
I see strange results in Keurusselkä 5. Miniralli. 2WD faster than 4WD! And for sure all did the same stages, right? What happened?
4WD: http://www.ajaksi.fi/docs/Keuruu18/4wd_ylk.pdf
2WD: http://www.ajaksi.fi/docs/Keuruu18/2wd_ylk.pdf
Hi! Any help about the previous post?
Fast young guys on 2WD cars and gentlemen drivers with old Evo's on 4WD class. Quite common to have these kind of results on smaller events in Finland.Quote:
Originally Posted by tolis
F-Cup JMK-Ralli Jämsä 03.03.2018
SS 1
https://samzon.kuvat.fi/kuvat/F-Cup+...s%C3%A4+03.18/
SM-Pohjanmaa Ralli 15-16.6.2018
EK 2, EK 3, EK 5 ja EK 8
https://samzon.kuvat.fi/kuvat/SM-Pohjanmaa+Ralli+06.18/
is Lindholm so much faster from Veiby?
Veiby taking it easy after having crashed too much? Also, Veiby first on the road.
Eerik Pietarinen is the new Finnish champion in his first R5 season. Hopefully we see him abroad soon!
I think it's going to happen already this season and Most likely in Wales. He also did recce for Germany.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Some minor rallies in Italy too (he already did 1 with "Pirelli" 208R5)
He’s doing Adriatico this yearQuote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
So guys. We (my son, grandson and son in law) are visiting TeijoTalot Ralli this coming weekend. If you have some good spots on Saturday you can PM me. Thanks in advance.
Nikolay Gryazin beats all the Finns (including current champion Eerik Pietarinen) on their home ground and wins TeijoTalot Ralli.
Final results of TeijoTalot Ralli:
1. Nikołaj Griazin/Jarosław Fiedorow (RUS) Skoda Fabia R5 50.16,8
2. Emil Lindholm/Mikael Korhonen (FIN) Skoda Fabia R5 +21,2
3. Eerik Pietarinen/Juhana Raitanen (FIN) Skoda Fabia R5 +23,4
4. Teemu Asunmaa/Ville Mannisenmäki (FIN) Skoda Fabia R5 +37,5
5. Juha Salo/Topi Luhtinen (FIN) Skoda Fabia R5 +40,3
6. Henrik Pietarinen/Juha Lummaa (FIN) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX +2.14,3
7. Joonas Tokee/Jani Salo (FIN) Subaru Impreza WRX STI +3.04,9
8. Jukka Kasi/Henri Ania (FIN) Skoda Fabia R5 +3.21,6
9. Ville Hautamäki/Enni Mälkönen (FIN) Subaru Impreza WRX STI +3.48,2
10. Pasi Lyytikäinen/Panu Plosila (FIN) Skoda Fabia R5 +4.10,2
Great drive from Gryazin, but it’s worth mentioning the championship was already settled before the rally
Lindholm again very fast.
Seems this is the youngster you have to watch close the Finns.
Which is the experience he has?
This is his first R5 season.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Lovely rally. I think quite undramatic, but very fast. Nice but cold day outside Turku yesterday. Now back home again in Sweden...
did he followed Fin championship?Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
He did the full Finnish championship season and finished second. Better than last year’s championQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Virtual chicanes will be taken into use for 2019
https://www.autourheilu.fi/uutiset/r...kaudelle-2019/
I dont understand finish, but only words "virtual chicanes" makes me crazy...Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
It means an area with speed display, with drivers required to slow down to a certain speed, for example 50 km/h before they can start going normally again. Another option demands a full stop and start.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
Compared to normal chicanes it reduces work from the organizers in the form of carrying haybales and having someone to put them back if someone hits the bales. Also, you cannot hit the bales and thus break your car, or break the bale which would make the chicane then easier for others. And as we've seen with WRC this year, moving the chicanes can be a drag. Although I could also see problems with distinguishing whether someone actually did hit the required speed on the required area or not.
In Finland the problem is that the public roads are usually easier to obtain for rallying and they also withstand better rallying. In the last Finnish championship event we had a stage with 139.71 km/h of winning average speed on a Skoda Fabia R5. That stage had many straight or almost straight parts where the cars went for kilometres completely flat out.
Another option would be to cut the fast sections by splitting the stage in shorter parts, but this always requires more people working on the stage.
Thanks for translation. But I still think this is a stupid idea which should never come to this sport... Keep stop and go and going through boxes to circuits, but dont bring it to rallysport...Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Yeah, I know it feels super awkward but I would rather just not have any chicanes at all, but it seems there' s benefits over traditional chicanes.
Another benefit I forgot to list: a traditional chicane is difficult for the recce because the chicanes cannot be put in place until the road is closed, and recce is done when the road is still open for public traffic. A virtual chicane only needs to mark the area during recce somehow.
https://rallysportmag.com/finland-to...speed-rallies/
From the horse’s mouth on virtual chicanes. But hopefully not for Rally Finland, although that would allow driving Ouninpohja again...
Just an honest question... What's the problem with 1km long straight road? Apart that it's boring as hell for the competitors there's nothing particularly dangerous about it. The organizers shall try to avoid using such sections simply from sporting quality point of view but IMO chicanes are better to be used where there is some reasonably high danger instead. The average speed value is anyway like catching own shadow because the cars and tyres simply grow faster with time.