Barum Czech Rally Zlin 2016

Sirmacis out, crew ok

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The car is outside of the corner. The car is upside down. The crew is out of the car and seems okay.

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Originally Posted by tolx

Sirmacis out, crew ok

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Shame it ended like that but I think he made a very promising performance on his first asphalt R5 Rally on a specialist event like this.

Nice to have some proper mileage on a Sunday..

Close battles for 1-2, 3-4 and 5-6 going into the final three stages.

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Originally Posted by KKS

Good photo, but for those who don't know many other internal things.
Chervonenko co-driven on some rallys with Lukyanuk - is ukranian political populist, it's his idea to drove with this kind of livery. It's good image for media, but it's not truth. He didn't care about peace - he care about money and want resume trade with russia.
And at rallies where Lukyanuk drive with Chervonenko with that livery - they didn't get a good result (crash, mechanical etc) so, as one world champion said: "there is some justice in a sport" :)

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If you say so.

But they even went as far as adopting Belarus nationality for their 2015 ERC campaign 'as part of their drive for a peaceful outcome to the conflict in Ukraine'.

Even if its not the whole truth it was still a fine sentiment to give the plea for peace some publicity.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Here they are in one word - Lukyanuk!

I have seen only three stages. We planned four but somehow a good lunch won over second pass of Březová :D And I also made a stupid navigation mistake in planning a walking path through some forest which in the end didn't cost us any stage but made us really tired...

I haven't seen a single crazy thing from Lukyanuk and so haven't my friends on other places! He just drives extremely well, very precise with no signs of overdriving at all. Kopecký looked more aggressive where I was (only fast places - smooth, rough and even some serious cutting). In the end we all agreed that Lukyanuk looked clearly fastest of all.

What is very clear is that Lukyanuk's and not only his Fiesta works better on rough surface, bumps and under heavy braking than Fabia of Kopecký. There are rumors about new evolution of dampers in several Fiestas R5 and it may well be true because they work awesome. It also looks like Fiestas brake better. Regarding engine I would still bet on Fabia.

By the way in JERC it was the opposite - Ingram looked quite a lot more aggressive and flamboyant than extremely clean and calm Griebel and he was still faster. The most flamboyant junior guy was for sure Gryazin.

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Good view and info from the stages, thanks.

Good to see Chris Ingram going well and keeping his lead without taking any risks...

Good points for the Championship coming. :)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cq8A3-HWcAACRFi.jpg

Sirmacis through the fields
https://youtu.be/_u7-iemEab0

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

But they even went as far as adopting Belarus nationality for their 2015 ERC campaign 'as part of their drive for a peaceful outcome to the conflict in Ukraine'.

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I think that was only Belarus rally licence, not nationality, K. Rovanpera also "latvian" for now :)