Not on mine... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
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Not on mine... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Pickems closing time is Friday morning at 08:25 CEST.
Just a reminder.
Sorry that is for meet the crews location, autograph session is at service park, any minute nowQuote:
Originally Posted by AlanaFord
What's the forecast for the weekend? Much rain expected?
No service during the first day? Who gets technical problems tomorrow is in big trouble...
Rain on Saturday, they said during shakedown this morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
Jesus thats almost certain death.
we see this more and more and I think it's utterly stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by focus206
One small mistake that would normally make you lose a little like a bend wheel time will now completely ruin your rally because you can't get it fixed.
They should at least allow the mechanics to bring the parts to the regroup and let the drivers themself try and fix it. That would create some nice epic story's, instead of forcing drivers to just retire because they can't get if repaired.
Some pictures from Thursday: https://www.ir7.at/content/fotos_bes...llye_2024.html
https://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/croatia2/1.jpg
https://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/croatia2/6.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/croatia2/14.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/croatia2/13.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/croatia2/15.jpghttps://www.ir7.at/content/fotos/2024/croatia2/12.jpg
“We want more endurance in rallies, it shouldn’t be a sprint!”Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
“No, not like that”
You can carry spare parts in the car if you want to, or take the risk not to.
It is just because of Platak stageQuote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
Lets see tomorrow, hope for a good battle between top guys. Thierry wil be fast i think! Curious for the speed of Fourmaux, could be fast here as well.
Wrc 2 i think Rossel wil be the benchmark.
No service during the day is stupid i agree, remote service is the answer!
But we also have post-saturday points reset. I would say friday's issues matter less this year for overall point gain than in previous seasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
That certainly helps, but it doesn't help on Friday afternoon if your preferred driver broke a prop shaft on stage 3. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Backa
Once upon a time, when rally was primarily consumed via news reports and highlights and so on at the end of the day, this was less important. But if you want to sell live video to people who watch the whole of every stage, there has to be something for them to watch. It has to be interesting as it goes along, not just at the end of the day.
It's not like we have a lot of WRC1 cars now. Imagine if Friday started with 2.5 teams and restarted after lunch with 1.5...
And here we go!
Puh. Had to log in, but computer also was in bad shape... Pickems closed.
Letīs start the rally!
If driver hits problems, loses minutes and thus are out of the contention, they hardly are interesting to watch any more. They are not going to win and only win matters. If I'd like watching cars being driven, I'd camp along motorway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morte66
Tanak losing a looot to Neuville.. +8.5 on split 5
E: +17.8 at finish
Well, stage 1 at least appears to have strong reverse-cleaning. I wonder if the whole rally will be like this. If so, Neuville is looking very hard to beat.
Well, nice co-commentator this morning.
Again I am amazed why Hyundai chose Mikkelsen for this rally.
This is gonna be some boring rally.....again.
At least F1 qualy starts in half an hour
Very weird, they should have put him on gravel. At least then he could have a chance for something. Makes him look worse than he actually is.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
It will be a lot more boring!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
I think the idea, tarmac "specialist", is that of the two (Mikkelsen and Lappi") he is the driver with more positive experience on this surface. So if you should pick rallies this makes more sense. But Mikkelsen is very slow when both conditions and feeling with the car are poor. I hope we will see more postive pace later, here he had an overshoot.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Hyundai also has Sordo signed on, don't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mackie
Qualifying is always exctiting, race not so much lolQuote:
Originally Posted by rp
Hmm. Lots of mess on the road in WRC2. Rossel was good, and Greensmith looked good for a guy who thought he had a puncture, but Gryazin went like a rocket.
Lots of tyre choices in play, which won't unwind until the end of the loop.
Pajari looking more committed than he did on the tarmac at Monte (not driving for points in either).
Given the way the field has spread out, Evans not doing too badly compared to Neuville.
It was funny when Ingrassia said that he thought the current WRC1 hybrids are too different from WRC2 for new drivers to get the hang of them, and that he politely disagreed with Thierry Neuville about that, and then a few seconds later we had the footage of Mikkelsen overshooting the corner.
Then shut the f*ck up and go watch F1Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
I would think they'd want to give Sordo the best possible road position for Portugal/Sardinia which are big cleaning rallies. He's won Sardina a couple of times thanks to starting late on the road, if I remember correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
At least nice coverage so far - Ingrassia as co-commentator, "studio" moving around, "pop-up Porter" collecting road-section insights.
and a nice amount of splits to follow.
Mikkelsen overshot.
This SS2 will be demanding.
And Ingrassia says SS3 will be a nightmare...
Eh, that grass needed trimming anyway.
The context - Rossel went to the grass after the jump, really lucky that there wasn't anything solid there, it could be game over.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morte66
Few years ago there was a stump and Pajari hit it...Quote:
Originally Posted by meh
In SS2?
Mikkelsen overshoot in SS2?
SS3 conditions: https://twitter.com/OfficialWRC/stat...35583928414635
How many "bljat" Grazin said? :) If commentators could only know what they are talking about...