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Thanks to you too!Quote:
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Sobiesław Zasada will do Safari in one Ford Fiesta Rally3. Polish and ERC legend with 91 years old.
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I heard about it too and to be honest - it's unbelievable!Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
sure it isnt a joke?
im worried about him
is it a wise choice with such a age? :D
It would be great to see also much younger (only 83) & the original Flying Finn Rauno Aaltonen to compete there! :) He drove Safari only 23x and was never able to win it. At least 5x 2nd places...
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Some great news going into Monday: we're planning to start @Rally_d_Italia
in the same car that Lappi used in Arctic and Portugal!
Big thanks to our main sponsor Markku Rautio for this chance.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/fo...ed-81/6514921/
Understandably, on a rallyforum, it hasn't been mentioned yet. As he was reported/ viewed as the F1 boss, when he actually was the FiA President. His close association with Bernie, meant F1 tended to be his priority - and the other disciplines were looked down on.
Yes, Aaltonen was only second. Zasada was only second, too. Now it's time for them to finally win the Safari ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by rp
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Well if enough cars break down it's entirely possible.
Anyway I will believe that Safari takes place first when the first car is at start of SS1.
It may be their last chance. When not now - then when?! ;)
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https://www.rallit.fi/jari-matti-lat...uomalaisnimea/
Latvala says there will be driver news soon. He's talking about Ogier possibly continuing a half season but they don't know the calendar yet so they cannot choose which rallies he's doing. As for the driver for the remaining events, he mentions that it was nice to see Lappi and Suninen doing so well in WRC2...
One of those two as part time instead of Ogier sounds very good tbh.
Driver wise Lappi fits better cause he is fast on the events where Ogier isn't and likely won't do (snow, fast gravel) , while Ogier could still do tarmac for example.
Not really sure if Ogier would want to do slow gravel when he is not cleaning.
But Joukhi manages Suninen.....
Toyota has to sign-up it's drivers soon as they will be testing the new 2022 hybrid car. They wont be allowed to test it otherwise in case they take the info elsewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
https://www.rallit.fi/esapekka-lappi...-ehdottomasti/
Lappi says also here he would like to go to Toyota even for just half a season, or would like to go to M-Sport as well (of course). He says he still has high targets on WRC level and feels bad about the two last seasons.
Understandably he doesn't want to close any doors...
Still it's an interesting question, if given the choice what would he pick, half-season at Toyota or full at MSport. My thoughts:
Toyota
+ likely better salary (even with half season)
+ quite certain to be competitive
+ he will drive the events he likes (fast snow/gravel) likely with good road position, so good chances for making himself attractive for the future
- not all rounds, Ogier might decide to do more events anyway (should be really careful about how the contract is written)
- probably will only get contract for one year
MSport
+ Full season
+ Likely possible to sign a longer than 1 year contract right now
- less money/might need own sponsors
- not so certain that the car will be competitive (MSport usually has very fast WRC cars on launch, but the recent Fiesta R5 upgrade (Rally2) had pretty disastrous start)
Not sure what the relationships are with MSport after last year. External impression is that perhaps not great.
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For Suninen I think Sardinia will be extremely crucial. Cause in recent two rallies after the engine upgrade the Fiesta seems competitive. Especially given his last year performance at Sardinia he really does need to be able to mix with Toyota/Hyundai drivers.
I guess that's what Latvala is waiting for.
Evans' on Instagram today showing the TGR Yaris Rally1 test. He's not going anywhere - expect a new contract to be signed very soon.
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/fia-i...ally1-in-2022/
Current WRC cars will be possibly allowed on WRC events with smaller restrictor.
Mostly M-sport cheering for this?;)Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
But, with the right driver, some of them can blend in. And the best, more cars at the startlist! But it is some running costs...
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It's annoying that they will reduce the restrictor size, though. That will surely hurt their chances of blending in.Quote:
Originally Posted by skarderud
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Yeah, but i understand them if the new Rally1 hybrid is slower than todays cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by steve.mandzij
That would be "interresting" to say it nice:)
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Rally1 will have same engine as current WRC, but there's compromises on the suspension, transmission and aero, so it's very likely that the cars will be slower.
The whole concept is going to be different with tubular frame and body scaling allowed.. It's not just "add hybrid on the current cars and change the name to Rally1". If WRC had been named "4WD Turbo Kit Car" in 1997, it would make now more sense. Some people seem to think it's analogous with World Rally Championship, and the top class should always be WRC (as if it had been always like this!). Yesterday someone blocked me on twitter when I tried to explain this....
Anyone knows how much the suspension travel will be limited to? And will they limit wheel travel or damper travel?Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Must have been an angry adolescent. Or an adult with arrested development as is usually the case on social media haha!Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Would love to see that...., and I doubt any of us would be shocked if he stayed full timeQuote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
lol....i have been saying this since the beginning of the year.
im not against him staying, rather opposite but its starting to look really ridiculous IMO
I think there is a calendar element here.
Ogier definitely likes this years calendar with the large number of tarmac events and low number of slow+cleaning gravel events.
So what he does next year might be also decided by what events are going to be run.
I think it's down to whether he wants to win another title or not. If not, he can just choose the nice events and not worry about sweeping in any rally. He could even enjoy the technical gravel rallies now that he wouldn't be sweeping.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Latvala just said recently that Ogier wants to see the calendar first, supposedly to decide what events he wants to do. I think it might also affect whether he wants to go for title.
I would have to disagree with that. Latvala's comments were based on the assumption that Ogier is doing a half season.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
If Ogier wants to win a title, he needs to do a whole season, and it will include events he won't like, but he knows it's a part of the deal.
That must be a Rally2 Kit car?
With a driver of Lappi’s calibre driving we can finally see how Rally2-Kits compare to Rally2s. Assuming he gets a full rally in one against reasonable Rally2 opposition...
According article (translated by Google) Lappi became Co-owner of RTE Motorsport, so he may be really just testing or even just advising at someone else's test.
It is a N5 (spanish rules).
Ah. In that case my intrigue has gone...Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
Co-owner of RTE Motorsport (Lappi is also owner) https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile...-janne-eronen/ has been driving with KIA Rio N5 (Teemu Asunmaa´s car which was badly damaged last weekend, 5-7 rolls)Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira
so it makes perfect sense for Lappi to test N5 car.
I see Kris Meeke is in Sardinia this weekend 🤷*♂️