Oliver need to be calm and focused now.
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Oliver need to be calm and focused now.
Scare near the start might make him back off a bit. Evans 4.5s up already.
Neuville found his speed now ?!
Or maybe its cleaning ...
Not Likely ! Probably road conditions improving for Rally1Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
It does seem to be cleaning, at least the first part. Katsuta was up too. Edit: and Pajari.
Yep, still lost with the car and miles off the Toyotas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Negaiss
Thierry massively disappointed
You could see he wanted to say much but didn’t
Hyundai is even more lost after Toyota has also used their jokers and development between seasons
Taka took advantage and looks like him vs Elfyn like last year.
Yeah. I'm suddenly thinking very hard about conditions on the remaining stages today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Takamoto Katsuta, please do that You have to do. I took a season destroying risk picking you for the win on Pickems everywhere.
Armstrong was faster than Neuville and Fourmaux on the splits. Seems to have lost the intercom now though.
Good stage from Armstrong!
seems like m-sport has finally found some talent with armstrong.
More like driving rally2 with good speed and amount of rallies before big car is the keyQuote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
McErlean or Munster hasn't really done too good with rally2..
Unfortunately for Josh McErlean (and to some extent Greg Munster), this doesn't flatter him. Armstrong's pace in only his second Rally1 event may lead to a serious inquisition at Motorsport Ireland.Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
armstrong has done 22 rallies in a rc2 or r5 car, munster has done 59, mclearlean 51.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
experience counts a lot, but if you don't have the talent you can't make it work.
I never understood why Motorsport Ireland chose McErlean for the Rally1 opportunity last year. He's never impressed much previously and there are other Irish talents.Quote:
Originally Posted by 240RS
Dont know what Solberg is talking about with his tyres, but even the Hyundai's are faster on this one.
Or maybe its still the cleaning.
Sometimes it is hard to understand rally.tv choises. Why on this penultimate stage they don’t show the WRC2 cars? Next stage still over 30mins away, day ending (no rush to get the tv crew to next place) etc.
Sometimes it is hard to understand rally.tv choises. Why on this penultimate stage they don’t show the WRC2 cars? Next stage still over 30mins away, day ending (no rush to get the tv crew to next place) etc.
Jon Armstrong with some good splits are a tiny bit of positive for M-Sport on a horrible Friday 13th.
If Ott’s choice to move from Toyota was his worst career choice, then leaving Hyundai has got to be his best, I’m sure watching at home from the sidelines he has a sigh of relief that he doesn’t need to manhandle that car another year, and who knows, maybe with some rest he’ll come back for the ‘27 regulations…assuming he’ll find a car he likes.
Watching stages now as didn’t have time during the day. Sesks was disqualified because he filled tires in gas station which is not allowed.
And M-Sport came out with too low pressure. The pressure was 1.2 but they filled with warmer air and when the air cools down, the pressure drops so it could be that the pressure was 1 or even lower. This could be seen also from the display yesterday. So they should actually put more to have 1.2 during the stage.
I always thought they would pick Armstrong or Creighton over McErlean, but they choose him first. Also don't know how M-Sport did so wrong after how many years of experience in WRC, 20-30?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
And yet again we saw Hyundai nowhere. They seem to improve but so did Toyota and it seems they are always one step behind.
Taka and Pajari needs to do it right this time.
Katsuta has done well to lead. But he did have helpful running order and a bit of cleaning, which only put him a couple of seconds ahead. Today he will be adjacent to Evans and both will be on well-travelled roads, so I wonder whether he can keep the lead.
Solberg is no longer opening the road, but he's running five or six places earlier and 50 seconds behind. I could see him challenging for a podium.
Of course, there will be punctures and offs, though hopefully less than yesterday as people learn the lessons.
And it might not clean like yesterday.
Well, we'll find out soon.
Or he will screw it up once again. I honestly want him to win already but consistency isn't his best friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morte66
I predict Solberg on 3rd place after first loop.. Katsuta and Evans are to far and fast to catch without mistakes, but podium is doable
Oliver will eat the Hyundais with the fist stage I predict
Jürgenson finally showed the speed I expected from him yesterday afternoon. Also got a stage win
Yesterday morning he was slow
Anyone thought more about Olivers save yesterday, when car disappeared in a snowbank in a cloud of snoww meters from the road?
For tens of a second I thought "this is it..." and suddenly he popped up on the road again, like a boxer on the legs at nine and counting...
The save of the century I think I heard the commentators said...
Mille was a surprise to me. He had the same speed as Jürgenson in the morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Sesks first on the road today?
I know I am the minority here but I really like this years Toyota livery, with the white snow in Monte and now here in Sweden it looks beautiful
Hyundai on the other hand decided to do a change once in 10 years and did it so wrong. Looks like a warehouse stock car for employees. Moves also like one.
Msport looks good like always
https://www.forum-rallye.com/uploads...771058957.jpegQuote:
Originally Posted by wwbroe
Gill was quicker than both of them in the morning and ended up being fastest non-Finn for the dayQuote:
Originally Posted by trykmann
Not a bad time from Bertelli, being a gentleman driver with money.
This is the Gronholm show.
Yep.
We already had Brynildsen, I heard Munster was about to feature on one stage(I missed it though) and now the Legend himself. So much better when we can listen to drivers commentating.Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCStan
And Toyota 1-2-3-4 it’s now in overall
Evans back in the lead. This is what we (well, I) want to see. :)
Let's start late, leave no space between stages and don't show wrc2, good plan