Pitty all these problems on the R5s by PSA once again :(
Fantastic results by Gino Bux and Cédric de Cecco :bounce:
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Pitty all these problems on the R5s by PSA once again :(
Fantastic results by Gino Bux and Cédric de Cecco :bounce:
Coming back to retirement of Grooten. He had a puncture, replaced the wheel, later in the same loop he punctured again. He had to do a stage almost completely on the wheel. When he was going to service, maybe 500m from Service In, the wheel broke... Anyway I'm a bit disappointed by his performance in Spa as well, expected something better from him.
Seen a great event, beautiful fast stages. A lot of variety, on places you had open fields and could follow the cars for kilometers. On a place we could already see the next car coming before the previous one disappeared. Other places are in forest. Some roads are wide, some extremely narrow, bumpy/flat, gravel, uphill, downhill, everything is in it. A few parts were similar to what you can find in Barum Rally. Some gravel parts were too brutal in my opinion.Also the itinerary allowed you to see a lot of stages (we did 4 on friday night, 8 on saturday), if you didn't mind driving a lot.
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Competition-wise this wasn't a good event. Some great battles, that's what we had. Freddy Loix in huge battle with Princen, before Princen got the penalty. I hope Princen can improve a bit more for when Loix will have the Fabia R5, because it will be quicker, probably only a few seconds on each stage. The organizers failed in every aspect. Chris Van Woensel (Lancer WRC) decided to stop after he lost some 3 minutes due to notional times for stages he couldn't drive because of accidents. With his WRC car he was starting behind the first R2 cars... Verschueren, Vanparijs and some others were excluded for missing some time control. A time control which Freddy Loix would have missed if he didn't see the 0-car stopping there in front of him!... Many things went wrong, leading to even more retirements than you usually have, but ok... Let's hope RACB will do something about it, but I expect nothing.
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Tommeke: Those 3 minutes for Van Woensel are not a notional time. They are a penalty acc. to Article 20.2. That's written on the result page. I have no idea what it is in Your national regulations but somebody here wrote something about illegal recce of SS2.
Mirek,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
He actually got a penalty for illegal recce, but also got several times really bad notional times.
Yes. These drivers got 3min penalty: Snijers, Van Woensel, Bonjean, Bouvy and Claerhout. They were all caught on the same stage (SS2/5) on friday morning. It's worth mentioning that official recce is always the weekend before the event, and organizers have put some hay bales on this stage that weren't mentioned in the roadbook, logically, drivers notes weren't correct. I would be very surprised if they were the only drivers who had a look at the stage on friday. It would be better if organizers check on illegal recce longer before the event. What I like is that the organizers give a time penalty in stead of a financial penalty. Last years sometimes there were penalties, but for some drivers 500 euros penalty isn't a big deal...
Both Van Woensel and Hermann stopped after SS8. On SS4 they got +36,7s. On SS6 1m04,6s. On SS7 +54,8s. It's normal they didn't agree on this, in normal conditions Van Woensel would lose maybe 20s on these stages together...
Thanks
http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozone...lend/1.2271748 Amazing onboard with Freddy Loix on SS Clémentine 1, it's incredible how they do it, also big respect for the codriver! The stage was delayed by 45mins which caused it to be run in almost dark, and almost no drivers had their big light pods on. Somewhere after 4mins the most interesting part starts, from there to the finish it's all gravel, and they are driving with tarmac set-up. This year it was dry and then it's quite compact gravel, the grip level is quite high. You hear Freddy talking and saying many things like "a fond", "couperen" etc, those are things in notes that must change or that have to be added for the second loop. Also interesting to hear at the finish that he thinks he didn't do a good stage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgfSt5EemG8 Lucky moment for a spectator when Florian Gonon lost his wheel...
my vidéo of spa rally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hCUfA9zjdY
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my video spa rally 2015
TAC Rally pre-entrylist ;)
http://tac-mlavaert.rhcloud.com/list/national/
Not as good as the first two rallies. Unfortunately, these names are not part of the TAC RallyQuote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Armand Fumal
Bernd Casier
Bob Colsoul
Cédric de Cecco
Chris van Woensel
David Bonjean
Pieter Tsjoen
Stephan Hermann
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Hi,
I'm going for the first time since a long time to the TAC. Does anyone know where I can find the maps of stages, or does anyone have it ?
And does anyone know good spots ?
Thank in advance !
Armand Fumal: ex-circuit driver who isn't doing a full championship. Instead he wants to do some WRC rounds this year on asphalt, like Germany and France.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICARDO75
Bernd Casier: he doesn't has the budget for a full season. He will drive only a few rallies this season. Ypres is sure.
Bob Colsoul: for years, he is only competing in his home rally, the Rally van Haspengouw.
Cédric de Cecco: I don't know why he isn't at the entry list. For sure he will do the Rallye de Wallonië at the end of this month and the Condroz at the end of the season.
Chris van Woensel, David Bonjean: both are angry that WRC cars had so many notional times in Spa. In the worst case, we won't see them again in a round for the Belgian national championship this year...
Pieter Tsjoen: he is now co-driver of Stéphane Lefèbvre for probably 3 rounds in the BRC: Wallonie, Ypres and the Condroz.
Stephan Hermann: he was also angry due to notional times in Spa and he hasn't the budget to compete in the full championship. Very fast driver in an old Punto, but he lacks budget. We will see him in his home rally, the East Belgian Rally in September. Other rallies depends on his small budget.
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Video Shakedown TAC Rally - 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTKwv4-vLd4
Cédric Cherain not starting in TAC, he will do Rallye de Wallonie, and after that only a limited BRC-programme... 9 events in a national championship is simply too much, especially when the average length of an event is around 200km SS.
I will be there tomorrow... hope to enjoy a nice Rally!!! It will be my first time in Belgium (for a rally...)
Really looking forward to see Van Parijs and Snijers with the Porsche...
200kms/rally with a rentend R5 is too much for national rallies. Is like doing 9 Ypres Rally during the season!Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
This extension of kms could be just for the rallies with more prestige like Ypres and Condroz.
IMO, the ideal would be to have events around 120kms.
To follow TAC Rally http://www.tac-results.be/ ;)
Loix a lot quicker than Princen in the first stage: 13 secs! The rest is far behind. It's wet on the stages.
Verschueren already made an excursion off the stage and lost over 3 mins.
Claerhout in the Porsche had an off as well, since then the stage is neutralised, on facebook you read comments about fire, not sure.
Not much left of the Porsche :(
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Crew is ok!
And another one...
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You won't believe it, one more... https://www.facebook.com/rallylovers...type=1&theater
Well, I enjoyed the trip !
Loix really impressive. Fast, and, what made the difference : clean.
Princen pushed, pushed, pushed ... too much. always on the limit, we clearly saw he was losing time.
Beckx, I was really surprised. He expected him like a slow gentleman driver, but he was quite fast.
Verschueren and Grooten very slow, not at ease. Maybe the DS3 R5 is a difficult car to drive ...
Cornelis quite surprising for me too. I know he was correct with Impreza WRC, but here he was quite fast.
The junior rules has done his effect again. Allart stopped because each times he joined the DS3 R1 starting in front of him ...
Video TAC Rally - 2015 (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irmZCBOY1mE
Photos TAC Rally 2015 en ligne sur http://www.bvrallypics.be
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