Martins Sesks

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Originally Posted by mknight

I am not so much into getting "new" drivers just because someone is "tired" of seeing for example Ogier.

The last few years there have been quite a lot of drivers that showed promising speed in first rallies and then never really improved to regularly fight even for rally wins and sometimes not even podiums and nowhere close any championship change.

Basically since 2017 only Rovanpera "made" it.
Lefevbre, Breen, Suninen, Lappi, Greensmith, Veiby, Loubet, Solberg all failed in some way.

Fourmaux and Solberg are the only work in progress there, can't see the others suddenly changing.

Sesks did great in those two starts, but kicking Ogier who is regularly winning rallies for him is insane idea.

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I always say this even though Ogier might be annoying sometimes we all should be grateful to watch him both live and from Rallytv because that mf is the master and we saw great battles with him,Neuville,Tanak,Evans (Not so much with Kalle since seb retired from full time where Rovanpera started to be the dominant force in 2022). We saw how hard Neuville and Evans tried but they failed (especially I felt bad for Evans in 2020 Monza but this is rally). Tanak is the only driver to beat seb properly in 2019. Ogier still did a very good job that year by being in the title fight despite driving the dog crap C3 (I never forget how ogier struggled on TARMAC with that car especially in Germany). Now ogier on Tarmac with Toyota is a deadly combination even though Ogier is not in his prime with his speed but he is still a machine which shows how great he is.

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Originally Posted by mknight

I am not so much into getting "new" drivers just because someone is "tired" of seeing for example Ogier.

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It's not Ogier, who "should" be replaced...

But who should he replace then?

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Originally Posted by bandit12

But who should he replace then?

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How about a Ford driver?

86,13 % probility - Sesks in Chile

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Mārtiņš Sesks impressions on the aero & hybrid of the Puma Rally1:

https://www.wrcwings.tech/2024/08/19...e-puma-rally1/

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Originally Posted by Negaiss

86,13 % probility - Sesks in Chile

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Instead of putting random looking number, you could wrote something more concrete.

Personally I am not big fan of Sesks missing tarmac rallies in ERC and planning to do another relatively fast gravel rally. I think we are in era, where all-around drivers will be valued more and more and Martins should try to show he is improving on events, where he was previously not as good.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Mārtiņš Sesks impressions on the aero & hybrid of the Puma Rally1:

https://www.wrcwings.tech/2024/08/19...e-puma-rally1/

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Says hybrid was more difficult to adapt than aero (even on a rally where hybrid matters less).

That kinda confirms what we said after Poland, that driving the non-hybrid Rally1 is likely much easier than for example the 2017-2022 car which had even more aero and even more fancy adjustable diffs.

I know it's a completely different series, but looking at this year's World RX where there are cars with EV and ICE powertrains together racing side by side. EVs are not spectacular at all, all they are good at is just their fast torque. And that's it. ICE cars are better in every aspect. I know that hybrids are completely different, but we saw Sesks being up there, not far by much without that technology. I believe that a Rally1 car without a hybrid and a little more power or in the right hands, could beat a full Rally1 car with a hybrid on.