What's the matter with the stages cancelled? I feel a little chance for Marcus, 'cause Seb usually starts a bit slow.
C'mon Marcus!
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What's the matter with the stages cancelled? I feel a little chance for Marcus, 'cause Seb usually starts a bit slow.
C'mon Marcus!
What a bloody disgrace - talk about trying to kill a sport.
Everytime I think they can't do anything more stupid, they go ahead and suprise me once again....
Haha)) Autosport.com can't count!:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/58515
http://www.crash.net/news_view~cid~4~id~147385.htm
More news! Well finally also.............. photos from Hennings Blog!
:)
http://www.vgb.no/6339/
I just hit me. If they keep on cancelling the stages, Mikko is on the pole position. He'll win his second rally of the year :bounce:
Go ahead, cancel the rest of the stages. :up: :)
How stupid, this is what you get when you view the WRC as a spectator sport instead of a competition between drivers and teams.
Stepan Vojtech, the czech driver, was at 15-30 CEST still in Buenos Aires. His team said in a press release, that all the SS of the first day were cancelled.....
I had a call from the photographer in Argentina - friday was cancelled.
Watttt?!?!
I do not know czech but here is the link :
http://www.tsvteam.cz/?site=novinky/clanek&id=169
Yes, its true - I speak czech very well :)
I think there is a real chance that we may not see enough kilometres being completed here for it to count as a point scoring round of the championship.
I'm not entirely sure of the ruling, but i believe that at least 50% of competitive kms have to be completed for World Championship points to be allocated.
I know that as things stand we should reach that mark easily, but who's to say that we may not see more stages cancelled because of spectator numbers? I certainly wouldn't put too much money on stages 7 and 8 running. I've seen the size of crowds in Argentina before, and if eveyone who planned to spectate at the cancelled stages heads to the two running stages, we have a big problem!!!
Arggg!!
Pictures from the airport: http://www.ewrc.cz/2006/show.asp?clanek=5816
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2007/argentina/denicek11.jpg
What's written there?
Well, we are close to have a non point rally now. I haven't calculated how many km's that have been cancelled, but we should be close to the limit.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
Erki , the paper means "To a homeless driver, please"
Can't they just push the whole timetable one day forward? So Friday's stages are run on Saturday, Sat on Sun and Sun on Mon? Sardinia is two weeks away so there should still be some time.
I can confirm that all of the special stages today are canceled. The super special stage may or may not be run. The organizers will know in about an hour.
First leg km without SS in Buenos Aires - 124,50 km. 35,92% of the total stage distance.
Itīs a joke, isnīt it? After this huge problem caused by a super-special, the only stage that will be made by the drivers will be again a super-special, this time in Cordoba...Quote:
Originally Posted by GunsofNavarone
Don't ask this kind of flexibility in that dogmatic world. I wonder why they didn't drive ss 6 and ss 7 with only wrc cars if only group N crews were unready.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erki
so now they have to fly back to cordoba? and transfer the cars back? then back up again to the HQ/Service park and have MORE problems probably soemthing like today!?!!??!
Seriously sitting here.....on the forum........the only news I'm getting is from you guys which is great but bull from wrc.com and others......late bull news.....not happy d.richards!
Crash.net have a RADIO Report:
http://www.crash.net/home.asp?cid=4
I agree, but the official website of Rally Argentina has no news on the cancellation either. It's not a question of the media not reporting fast enough, it's that the media are not being informed of the situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
Ok sorry bout that....just some rage!Quote:
Originally Posted by GunsofNavarone
Radio on Crash also have news old with competing last few stages of day, whilst someone else reports that fri is cancelled. (sms)
I read somewhere else that some important officials are also stranded. This might explain why they can't run.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finni
Nothing against argentinians, but hope Argentina is out of next years chalendar and give them a chance latter as with portugal, bring mexico back LOL at least is not as bad organised and there would still be a round in america..
Matt they dont have to fly back to Cordoba because that is where the rally is actually based. Seems stupid as they have a perfectly good superspecial there anyway.
Exactly, Cordoba's SSS was perfectly good, it was the greedy organisers that wanted to get more $$$Quote:
Originally Posted by Simmi
Quote:
Originally Posted by jonas_mcrae
And like David Richards wasn't sitting there drooling prodding them along and encouraging them as much as possible.
More commercial circus for the "promotion" of the sport at the cost of legitimate sporting...
Just spoken to the guys in Carlos Paz.
Apparently the rules say that as long as the stewards declare a result, half points will be awarded, no matter how many kms have been completed.
As things stand in Argentina, if all remaining stages in Leg 2 and 3 of the rally are completed, we will be 13kms short of the required distance for full points.
Apparently it might be possible to add the required kms to the remaining scheduled distance.
So the legimitacy of the rally has been compromised for a 2.2km superspecial....
Bit like like the 1984 Monaco GP when it was cut short because the rain was so bad and they awarded half points. Prost won the championship by half a point that year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally_Rocks
Good stat.Quote:
Originally Posted by bt52b
In english now :bandit: :angryfireQuote:
Originally Posted by jonas_mcrae
http://www.rallyargentina.com/englis...hp?id_noti=145
http://www.rallyargentina.com/english/
Half points would just further compound the embarassment in my opinion as we'd have to wince every time we look at the championship standings.
Saying that I've done that for the past couple of years anyway thanks to Super Seb.
The leg has been 'modifided' apparently. Thats one way of putting it. The correct english translation would be something more like 'Cancelled' or 'balls'd up'!Quote:
Originally Posted by bt52b
from subaru usa:
Immediately following the stadium stage the rally cars were loaded back onto the transporters and driven overnight back to Carlos Paz where they were unloaded and put into Parc Ferme at approximately 8:40AM Friday morning, on schedule. But where are the drivers? As the cars were being unloaded some drivers had still not arrived back to Carlos Paz!
The facts are still trickling in here to the team hotel in Carlos Paz, but it seems late last night the Buenos Aires airport lost their radar and no flights could depart. The drivers waited and waited in the airport all night. Then at about 3am the three planes departed for Cordoba. Two planes landed safely at about 4am, but the 3rd chartered jet, which included Pastrana/Edstrom had to turn around and fly back to Buenos Aires! It is unconfirmed, but weather(fog) was the culprit. As of 11am this morning that 3rd and final plane is still in Beunos Aires waiting for heavy fog at Cordoba airport to lift! Without that final plane load of drivers the rally can not run as planned today.
Most of today's stages will be canceled. Rally officials are still determining if the final two originally scheduled special stages as well as the end of day Cordoba stadium stage could be run as planned.
Hennings mentioning that fridays stages might be run on sunday http://www.vgb.no/6339/