why is Toni Gardemeister on this list??Quote:
Originally Posted by pentti
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why is Toni Gardemeister on this list??Quote:
Originally Posted by pentti
interesting, could this saying something about names like Paasonen, Laukanen and the fastest long time in group N Mr.Puhakka ?Quote:
Originally Posted by COD
To the rally; great stuff bu Latvala, very good and although he had showing fast speed, this is what everybody was hoping at Ford. He's now got extra confidence and i believe he could be a big thread on the comming gravel rounds for both Mikko and Sebastian. Sordo did a good job either and will be up there aswell on the next gravel rounds, Galli, 2 rounds already in the points and more important in Sweden he was showing also a very encouriging speed and will be a joker in the next rounds, this will be a more "open" championship than the previous 3 years! Hopefully Duval will found more money to step in this big fights also, not only on tarmac rounds which i believe he will going for gold. Subaru must bring the new car asap, till that time both drivers must collect as mony points as possible. Suzuki
s performance is not that bad, it's good to have them too.
All in all, very interseting and positive about this season after Sweden :)
Sorry. I was wrong not to name him as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
How can you block some one?Quote:
Originally Posted by COD
At home after the rally of Sweden and in spite of that it was not a real winter rally, I had a great weekend with Pino, PuddleJumper and J4MIE.
Also we met several other forum members, such as Magnus, and.....forgive me I can not remember names! ;)
To all of you guys thanks for this weekend and it was nice to meet more rally freaks.
Meanwhile I have read this thread and it surprises me how much nonsense to read here. :dozey:
How much of you have already ever seen a wrc rally live? :eek:
Nonsense he has been doing his work and trying to get a seat for his drivers like any other manager is doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by COD
Hi BJ, nice to hear you had a good time at SwedishQuote:
Originally Posted by Brother John
Me up to now about 70 WRC events...
Well some nonsense like always, but this time without so mutch of yours :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Brother John
:rotflmao: touché :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Viking
In fact there was more nonsense then usually. :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by Viking
Some don´t see or kinder hide the truth instead of opening their eyes! That´s those who calling hard here on the forum, but if there really changes something in wrc and things not go such as they want! oooo boy.
It is easy to attack someone on a forum, you can have it your way, i don't care. I have enjoyed the rally and wait what will happen in the championship.
That is much more than me ProRally, (ik ga nog maar 35 jaar) :D !Quote:
Originally Posted by ProRally
Exactly, and that has included doing everything he can that drivers not under his management will not take the seats he wanted for his drivers... Management is dirty business and he has been very good at itQuote:
Originally Posted by DonJippo
Do you seriously mean that WRC rally is real and not someting that happens only in the virtual world? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Brother John
All this talk of Virtual spectator has me confused now :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Tomi
Was it not a real rally this weekend? Where have I been this weekend then? :eek: I have to ask Pino, what have we done this weekend? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tomi
Just watch day2 review, you were on TV on SS13 :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Brother John
Sure it is dirty business but he ain't the only one capable of it, like you know for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by COD
Some recognition help, if you please:
http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/mot...s/leg1_h01.jpg
Is Araujo in the pic?
Top row:
? in red shirt - ? light gray shirt - ? red fleece - ? white jacket - Al-Attiyah - Arai - ? young guy - Sousa (?) - Nittel - ? blue jacket - ? white shirt
Bottom row (going up and down)
Prokop (?) - ? blue fleece - ? guy with mobile phone - ? not very visible - Markkula - Hanninen - Axelsson - Sandell (with that look in his eyes) - Tomanek - Aigner - McNeall - Aksa or Mboi - Magalhaes (?) - ? in blue shirt - ? with text Sepa on shirt - Aksa or Mboi - ? white jacket - Wicha
Top row:
Martin Prpkop in red shirt - Martin Rauam light gray shirt
Updated - Thanks Jaanus
Some recognition help, if you please:
http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/mot...s/leg1_h01.jpg
Is Araujo in the pic?
Top row:
Prokop - Rauam - ? red fleece - ? white jacket - Al-Attiyah - Arai - ? young guy - Sousa (?) - Nittel - ? blue jacket - ? white shirt
Bottom row (going up and down)
? red fleece - ? blue fleece - ? guy with mobile phone - ? not very visible - Markkula - Hanninen - Axelsson - Sandell (with that look in his eyes) - Tomanek - Aigner - McNeall - Aksa or Mboi - Magalhaes (?) - ? in blue shirt - ? with text Sepa on shirt - Aksa or Mboi - ? white jacket - Wicha
Araujo is 4th from the top row with the white jacket :)
Yep, the portuguese guys are there!Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Great, thanks! I assume his co-driver is the one with white jacket on bottom right corner?Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
....Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Jari Ketomaa is with withe shirt on top row and Miika Teiskonen white shirt with Sepa text on bottomQuote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Jari Ketomaa is vetomies to the end :up:
He was fixing the notes as they crossed the finishline on last stage and wasn't happy that had to say on second run that stage :D
We've been somewhere in Sweden, in a cottage, playing great blues-music, drinking nice swedish beer...and eating the best pasta in the world ;) It was great, and I look forward to next year in Norway :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Brother John
Please where can i find fotos from NATIONAL Swedish rally?
National Swedish was annulated! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by padWRC
[quote="jonkka"]Some recognition help, if you please:
http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/mot...s/leg1_h01.jpg
Top row:
? in red shirt - ? light gray shirt - ? red fleece - ? white jacket - Al-Attiyah - Arai - ? young guy - Sousa (?) - Nittel - ? blue jacket - ? white shirt ]
"Young guy" behind Arai is Eivind Brynhildsen.
Got home last night and just about recovered!
I enjoyed the rally very much, but don't think we selected the best spots to watch apart from one stage on Saturday morning which was brilliant :up:
As usual the company was great, and was good to meet a few new forumers even if we did our best to avoid Magnus! Thanks to Pino for the excellent food, Brother John for driving us around without incident and fantastic music, and Jonathan for co-driving duties :up:
Norway next year has to be a definite :D :up:
Will post some photos later today after I have organised them all :)
I can´t wait to see the photos. :cool: Put the fire on J4MIE, I´m hungry. :D Norway here I come!Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
@ J4mie Yes pics!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brother John
@ Brother John I see you in Norway ;)
Nah, I think fires are over-rated :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brother John
Just some thoughts which came to my mind. I enjoyed the rally very much, allthough there were a little snow. Gigi, Jarri and Henning were the stars for me in wrc, in group N Sandell and Juho were great.
I was some 100 m away from the spot where Loeb crashed out and the bad sight which i saw when i arrived to the seen was that there were lot of people who ran there but few helped out. It´s just sad. I understand that lot of people might not like Seb, but giving a hand to help him out would have been polite. Also i have to say that swedish people are very polite and nice. Can´t wait till the new rally sweden comes in 2010!
Some photos from Sweden: HERE: http://forum.autosport.cz/viewtopic....4&p=1700#p1700
http://www.autosport.cz/img/fotograf...6c7bc8f175.jpg
http://www.autosport.cz/img/fotograf...2f7b892103.jpg
http://www.autosport.cz/img/fotograf...a5f097d16b.jpg
http://www.autosport.cz/img/fotograf...e6150d1278.jpg
Greetings from Sweden again, it was my 12th time in a row..
The weather stole the show almost, and we decided to choose the northernmost stages to avoid cancellations.
We started from shakedown, which had a tricky S-corner right at the finnish. Some wide line was there to be wittnessed and afterwards the road conditions came worse so the fast part before that seemed really tricky. No one went off but some were close. I really liked the rally village + shakedown + SSS concept, but the weather was something the organizer couldn´t do anything to. On SSS1 we managed to witness a roll already as Semerad rolled his Mitsu on tightening right from inside.
We found really nice and tricky place from Bjälverud stage SS3, about 3kms from the start there was a blind left-right which seemed really promising and we had high expectations. It would be nice to see how the best drivers in the world could control their car in that "sumppu"-place which seemed really open entering it high speed but which turned behind the bank really tightly first to left and then to right slightly uphill and again to left over crest..
Show started well, Loeb went perfectly and really fast, but the Hirvonen as the second car hit the bank in the righthander ploughing the snowbank really bad. The car lifted its right front tyre high up the air bet Mikko controlled it amazingly and continued without timeloss. Third car was Atkinsson and he hit the same bank that threw the car around, hit a tree and got stuck in the snowbank in the last corner. It took a long time to lift him up as there was only about 10 people there to help and that place required really thorough warning as it was long sequence of corners where there was little room for braking. Chris wanted to throw in the towel as the car was really deep but I managed to speak some sense to him and he continued to try. After several minutes of work we could get him back on the road.
After atkinsson and Hirvonen took the snowbank (there was actually quite a lot of snow up there!) several drivers ended up in difficulties in that place, for example Merksteijn, Nittel, Ketomäki and Sauván haged spectacularly on the edge of the ditch lifting their tyres up almost rolling.
On the second run through Mikkelsen and again Merksteijn had difficult time there and Svedlund and Munster both ended up out where Atkinsson went and then to the other side ditch snowploughing 30metres in ditch. Both managed to come up quickly.
Really nice and action packed place there!
Then on saturday we went to our traditional place 2 kms before Colin´s lift, where there's always been some action. This year it was less, as there were some warning tapes there to guide the drivers to that blind tightening right. Svedlund and Sauv´n hit the bank quite deep but that's all. I would have liked to seen the national drivers drive that place in the dark, I'm sure there would have been some action.
On Sunday we went to see the classical Sordo - Stohl - Solberg - Prokop - Schie - Griazine - Brynildsen place on Ullen stage. On that corner the grip was good as it was completely gravel, but still my favourite driver Sauván rolled his Mitsu which ended up pretty bad shape after rolling over big rocks there.. Sauv´n was spectacular everywhere and had his own lines on all our places. Surprising that he managed to get so far!
The other round was cancelled so we went to Rämmen's last corner where Araujo went off last year. Now they had decided to but all the warning tapes left to that last corner so there was no action. No one could drive through the tapes if he weren´t blind!
The weather got worse and worse, too bad the rally wasn't held a week before. But still it was a good competiotion, and the fastest man definitely won.
Latvala drive´s nicely, uses big slides and is really confident. On Bjälverud it was nice to listen and compare him to other on the mountain side where we could hear the cars for several kilometres. Latvala went pretty much flat out that section, only couple of times braking and then immediately again on gas. The others were hesitating, and braking and accelerating braking again and accelerating again several times in one corner. Theoretically you should either accelerate maximum or brake maximum, otherwise you loose time. Latvala drove exactly like that!
Galli was also really promising and calm, controlling the race behind works Fords. Nice job. Also I´d like to mention Mikkelsen extremely mature drive and Östberg´s aggressive and spectacular approach. Both are really promising talents!