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Originally Posted by Mirek
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Shit! Those fenceposts..Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
The crew is ok. Lucky though...Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
That's actually not true. Cerny started competing in ERC already in 2009 and spent many years on European stages:Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile/3733-jan-cerny/
I stand corrected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Only remember him the last few years.
So it's more like in his case it seemingly didn't help him that much.
Yes, he seemed to be on a good way, but suddenly his progress stopped.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
For sure Cais is local driver, but other drivers have driven those stages many times in the past so I would not exactly play it down to this and only this.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
He can be very fast abroad aswell, gravel for sure is bit meh sometimes, but he is making some progress every event he does. But sometimes it is hard to rate the results because very often those are rather smaller local events (not talking recent Rzeszow).
Cerny actually did some events abroad at the beginning of his career which helped him to develop, but unfortunately only to level that is not enough to challenge Kopecky and also Pech. Jakes didnt drive abroad since his hillclimb european title, and also never reached the top level.
Mares made huge progres in ERC with R2 and later R5 so he quickly reached and imo surpassed Jakes/Cerny and got closer to Kopecky and maybe on par with Pech last year; but it feels like it came too late in his development to challenge Kopecky.
Mr Orsak who is team principal of Cais team recently mentioned their target is world rally championship, they planned to start in Croatia and now focus on Catalunya. He also noted that this is the reason why the run Ford instead of Skoda, because the path to WRC is clearer with M-Sport.
He also mentioned how closely M-Sport is following Cais progress (yes please, put the young lad under even more pressure, why wont you boss)
With Stritesky, lets wait and see what will be the aftermath of his first big crash. Surely it would be the best to sit in the car asap, but it is hard to do when the only R5 your team has is destroyed. Maybe it is the best time for Škoda to give him one or two test days now they have a new car to develop.. ;)
Newsfeed leg two including crash of Cais: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU5AZ1e_JK0
Well Skoda R5 has been the path to WRC for Lappi, Rovanpera and partly Solberg.
But yes with Fourmaux MSport kind of "skipped" the WRC2/ERC stage. I am still not sure that's a good idea though.
Risk with MSport is that the Rally2 Fiesta seems to lack on gravel (slippery gravel most), while being good on tarmac (interestingly especially slippery tarmac). Imo also partly the reason MSport "skipped" the gravel part with Fourmaux.
Another thing is that "everyone" in CZ drives Fabia, so might be easier to get sponsors for something else.
Cais's team led by his father is not oriented on domestic scene (btw before starting rallying Erik was doing MTB downhill World Cup). They are not interested in it and the same goes about their partners, hence why for example Cais was the first Czech driver ever sponsored by Yacco which AFAIK doesn't even have Czech dealership.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
A bit similar to some of his earlier small moments/corners that I saw, understreering on entry.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Kopecky has a theory that he had harder tires and Cais softer, but start of the stage was dry, so Cais might have felt he needed to push "more" on the wet part.
Night Pindula by Llarena. My Spanish is horrible but I think I heard the co-driver saying "Puente Gryazin" before the place where Gryazin crashed in 2019 (it's at 7:56).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iv3UJO-8Dw
Cais had hard tyres on the rear axle on the last stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Kopecky says Cais had crossed tires:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
https://youtu.be/9eFnGVUxQOo
(it's a few secs back in the vid)
https://youtu.be/_818p3SL5Ds
Cais crash
Seems he was driving safe but made small mistake
Heartbraking the reaction of both inside the car...
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"Fuck, it doesn't turn, dude!" :)Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Yup!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Sara said "Attention Gryazin Bridge, don't cut"
Erik Cais got a fine of 5000 E for his behaviour after the accident on SS15:
https://storage.googleapis.com/downl...4038&alt=media
And the ERC agrees ! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9-imQuW...pg&name=medium
Interesting. I wish a few more thought like this for their future and helped M-Sport's Rally2 sales. Hopefully the Rally3 car will be good for them in this way though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Walach
Cais already testing the other Fiesta from his team around Biskupice airfield (SS 11/14 yesterday).
Not wasting time, aren’t they?
Was so impressed with Cais. Brilliant speed which surpised me and it was heartbreaking the way it ended. Crew were absolutely distraught, but hopefully they can use this experience to kick on now.
Kopecky, lacked a bit of pace but was also using his head in the tricky conditions. Knew he was beaten on speed but rallies aren't solely won with speed - as Cais showed on the last stage.
Mikkelsen...., feel like I say this after nearly every rally of his this season, but again unimpressive.
Mikkelsen was 0.2s behind lead after first loop and ahead of Cais.
Then on the more muddy second loop drove safely and ended 2nd ( would have been 3rd). Getting a decent lead in ERC.
Which is exactly what I predicted in this very thread after Lukyanuk crashed out beforehand.
Again this feels similar to Estonia, "everyone" predicts he will do bad. Then he does much better (here that means actually fighting with Kopecky) and the same guys that predicted he will do much worse call it a disappointment.
Btw. last time a non-Czech driver won Barum is Hanninen in 2012. Lukyanuk didn't manage in multiple tries, Sordo ended 3rd in 2018.
Outside his early season comments about "dominating" every rally he enters (now everyone just loves to rub that statement in his face at every moment possible), overall he did a clever, smart rally. On the first day he was on the same pace as local drivers Cais and Kopecky. Thats actually not bad considering it was 10 years ago since he drove in Barum. As Cais and Kopecky battle heated up (Pindula night stage), it seemed he simply backed off realizing the risk is just too high to end crashing out when his main title contender is taking 0 points out of the weekend. So thats just that.Quote:
Originally Posted by er88
About Mikkelsen's early season comments - it simply shows how important is to re-think twice what you are about to say in social media and how other people will interpret this. I dont think he meant to sound arrogant (or is arrogant personality itself), but thats how it sounded to most people and now everyone just loves to highlight it in a negative way.
Mikkelsen thinks he is dominating ...
Andreas Mikkelsen @AMikkelsenRally
P2 Second place (Barum) and now LEADING both the World Rally Championship 2 and the European Rally Championship !
Thats your interpretation of what he thinks. I see that tweet has nothing to do with domination. He is leading both championships and that is a fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Mikkelsen's big mouth has set the expectations too high for himself. This is a quote from an interview with Dirtfish at the start of the season:
So far in WRC2 he has 2 wins (one where you can say he was dominating, Monte Carlo) on 5 events. In ERC he has 0 wins out of 4 events. He's not doing bad, but he's nowhere near what he said he wanted to do, despite being in the best position of all drivers competing in the same class.Quote:
And I have one aim next year, and that is to dominate completely every rally that I’m doing. That means win every ERC round, win every WRC2 round. That’s my sole focus next year, to be the fastest R5 car in every rally.
I stand corrected.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
I'm pretty sure, that's for psychological reasons ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Walach
Onboard of Kopecký from the last stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r9soRkVsDE
Plenty of big moments or wild passes in every video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxq-ipFKJXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg5IhwnQmVo
Plus some good news. Dominik Stříteský was released from hospital where he was due to concussion.
Mikkelsen's video blog about Barum rally is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWq7s-ZiyLY
Guys, this is electric Corsa. Do you agree with the opinion of the spectator about this car? :D
https://scontent.fktw1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...f9&oe=6133C29D
The crowds on the city stage were booing on the electric cars.
One video for dimviii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwiWHsYs14Y
Pech retired because of cracked engine crankshaft. Rather unusual technical problem.
amazing video! But NOT even a hairpin?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Exactly. I wasn't saying he had a bad event or the like, just that I'm not that impressed considering the standard expected. And I've had that feeling most of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by tommeke_B
Mikkelsen's comments at the start of the year could be purely construed as arrogant, but imo it's also just a reflection on what he felt he needed to do this year - to get back to a fully paid manufacturer drive. Winning the ERC or WRC2 in this manner isn't going to hugely impress anyone - especially for a driver who has already had 4/5yrs in championship winning teams. It was the same with Ostberg last year. Show you're much better in terms of speed AND consistency against all the R5 drivers, and he probably would have already been signed up.
Look at Lappi, dominated in Artic and cruised to a win in a Portugal and now looks locked into Toyota next year.
No point trying to gloss over Mikkelsen's season or change the goalposts, because he was the one who made them.
Still really hope we see him getting a full season at Msport over Greensmith though. And if that's still a possibility in Malcolm's eyes, then get Mikkelsen in that Puma now to take over testing from Matt Wilson......
There were good finish drivers who were able to fight for win here. And two of them also won - Mikael Sundström and Juho Hänninen.Quote:
Originally Posted by rp
Daniel Polasek is learning his codriver how to do finswimming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcvUgD3-l9c
He is not locked there because of results in Arctic and Portugal...Quote:
Originally Posted by er88
It's not either / or - if Greensmith pays then he drives and he isnt taking anyone's 'seat'.Quote:
Originally Posted by er88
Fourmaux also has Red Bull support to aid his drive.
Mikkelsen isnt impressing enough to get a paid drive.... Breen is.