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Video SS6-9 including big crash of Huttunen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCt0mEEAXa0
Huttunen onb SS4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARLX3Wu7n5o
Mikklesen onb QS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xixdO9M9yCE
Crash Landa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=johTMauPtJ4
Don't forget that the hardest stage of today (SS12/15) will be broadcasted live on youtube and facebook of ERC: https://www.youtube.com/user/FIAERC/videos
Májová is a stage made of some parts of Troják, including a fast forest road which wasn't used for over 10 years and it ends with the infamous superslippery Rajnochovice valey where countless crews crashed every time it was raining in the past (you may remember plenty of mad crashing videos from there).
Mikkelsen waving white flag against both Czechs.
Massive time for Cais at SS12.. oh
Erik Cais now destroyed all with a mega time on SS12 :eek:
Cais flying out there this morning.
Just amazing what Cais is doing, now 20s ahead of Kopecky and 42s ahead of that guy who was going to dominate all ERC rounds... If Cais brings it to the finish in one piece, it's the best publicity M-Sport has had so far, for their Fiesta Rally2.
Griebel lost the lead in 2WD with broken driveshaft. Yesterday Franceschi got 3 minutes penalty and Tarabus changed wheel on Pindula. Really tough for the 2WD guys...
Pech out. Technical problems again.
Awesome performance so far by Cais vs the Skoda pair of Kopecky & Mikkelsen. Looks like a new rally star is born !
Sorry for Wagner, great rally of him.
another angle from Stritesky crash
https://twitter.com/ma_ipp/status/1431619611917758469
Don't forget that he is a local. Even Kopecky didn't know stages like CaisQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Sorry, but I have to disagree on this one. There's not a single road Kopecky hasn't driven yet. Some stages (Biskupice, Komarov, first section of Halenkovice, middle section of Majova) only returned this year and haven't been used since the S2000 era, when Kopecky was works driver... ;) Kopecky has driven Barum almost 20 times I think, and won it 9 times. He's "Mr. Barum" as much as Loix is "Mr. Ypres", and Loix also lives roughly 200km away from the Ypres stages by the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Agree.. Cais has an advantage here vs. himself-on-other-rallies but not against Kopecky. Good to see a new generation of Czech drivers coming through.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Live broadcast from the last stage starts in 2 minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziiz_-fDfFk
ERC just uploaded several more fantastic full stage onboards from Barum: https://m.youtube.com/user/FIAERC/videos
It's a home rally for Cais, he knows the stages, one of them leads to his old school, but it doesn't make his performance less impressive. I keep my fingers crossed for him!
Cais rolled it looks like :(
Gutted for him. What way to lose it
Such a shame to end the rally like this. Even Kopecky is visibly gutted with it.
Kopecky seems sad for Cais too, he was beaten on speed.
Cais crashed at last stage.Pitty,amazing pace.
Also MSport lost the chance to Win an ERC event after 3 Years
They won Gran Canaria last year!Quote:
Originally Posted by RallyFan13
Didn't Formaux win Canarias last year?Quote:
Originally Posted by RallyFan13
You are correct guys I was thinking Luky was the Last back to 2018,Anyway Fiesta Showed very strong compare to Skoda big names such as Kopecky and Mikkelsen
Kopecky when posing for picture as a winner at the finish line:
“Salut to Erik”
Form is temporary; class is permanent
Erik is a young guy who never experienced something like what was happening yesterday night and today in midday service. The hype and the pressure, the distraction. It's not easy to manage that and many others failed the same way before. The important thing is however that now he knows he can beat them. If he takes the right lesson from today he can be only stronger. He still has many years in front of him.
I don't know if it was posted here, but here's what happened to Jari Huttunen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4BT-5nhRt8
I wonder if Skoda might pay some attention to Cais after this performance.. after all they will need a strong younger Czech driver as Kopecky is in the twilight of his career now. Unless they are already set on Stritesky?
Kopecky after SS9 (where he lost the lead to Cais): "I want to use my experience for this kind of conditions. I don't want risk. You must drive a bit crazy and take some risk for best time. But twenty years ago I would do the same."
He knew what he was talking about!
It will be interesting to see the nature of Cais' accident, I can't imagine he was pushing too hard with a 20s lead.
Lukyanuk drops from 1st to 4th position in ERC after this rally.
Provisional standings:
1. Mikkelsen 97
2. Marczyk 78
3. Llarena 76
4. Lukyanuk 67
Herczig 67
It's true, but I talk for another.. Cais fast but "fast Cais on Barum" more because his local stage knowledge and a local guy. On another national events he will be slower and at another tarmac rallys even more slower. So "new rally start" so far it's a bit optimisticQuote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy8G...channel=FIAERC
Kopecky onboard SS11 and "funny"? comment at 3:50?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cstX...tinKozm%C3%ADk here is comaprision with Marczyk at same spot. And Huttunen a way late on a brakeQuote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
You are right, but here he was REALLY fast!Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Crazy video from Passats de canto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsmrBJGfDbc
That's very good question. I guess they will wait until the end of the year anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
While he was certainly very impressive here, as other people pointed out he lives between the stages. (But Kopecky has also driven Barum zillion times.)
Another driver (Vlcek with new i20) said it today already that for him it's more impressive how Cais does on other rounds abroad. (For example the recent Polish one).
What imo is interesting is how Cais immediatelly started driving abroad and even though lots of his results were a bit "meh", it shows that it also helped him develop for home round.
Quite a difference to drivers like Cerny or Jakes who drive only same stages at home and expect to develop from there. Off course not everyone has that choice and budget for it.
So if anything Skoda should send Stritesky out as much as possible latest next year. For Cais if he is to aim higher he should focus on gravel. (So he doesn't end like Kopecky and Kresta before him, who never got good on gravel).
Loeb learned gravel first with WRC and same could be said about the approach with Fourmaux. But it's still early to say how Fourmaux turns out on gravel. So I'd call that rather an exception than a rule.