If anyone’s interested in some geeky statistics of this year’s routes, read on my blog https://itgetsfasternow.wordpress.co...eason-wrap-up/
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If anyone’s interested in some geeky statistics of this year’s routes, read on my blog https://itgetsfasternow.wordpress.co...eason-wrap-up/
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Originally Posted by N.O.T
Hold your breath.
Why not write a book? You could title it " How useless village team of nobodies, potato heads and useless dogs won the world championship".Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
That was good! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by sollitt
i am already on it... but the title is a bit different..Quote:
Originally Posted by sollitt
"how an Estonian carried a sack of finish potatos on his back towards the championship"
What exactly is a finish potato? Is it like finish line, only it's a potato?Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
Oh, Finish potatoes are the new chicanes!
Maybe its the new trophy for Rally Finland... they hand out potatoes on the podium.
Has the WRC put out their cook book with recipes yet?
A dish from the countries that are visited and favourite recipes from the wrc co/ drivers.
https://youtu.be/kuD9xerGuBc (Reindeer - Helsinki style)
Neuville interviewd while piloting a heli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICJi...Ph4iRMBy2SIMLw
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtArN2fXcAEp83n.jpg:large
when you see it... :D
Nobody is watching the trophies.
I'm afraid they are, all two of them!!Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
https://www.rally-maps.com/RAC-Rally-1986
https://www.rally-maps.com/RAC-Rally-1991
https://www.rally-maps.com/RAC-Rally-1996
https://www.rally-maps.com/RAC-Rally-1997
https://www.rally-maps.com/Rally-of-Great-Britain-1998
https://www.rally-maps.com/Rally-of-Great-Britain-1999
Finished mapping some older editions of RAC Rally. 1986, 1991 and 1996-1999. If anyone has maps from the missing years, let me know, I want to fill the gaps.
Skoda's going to need a bigger trophy cabinet.
Hyundai need to re-write the contract to prevent TN flying/ flying in that type of helicopter.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Wonderful work Antti, thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Norwegian TV2 Sport2 now has 1 hour from each of Rally Monte-Sweden-Mexico-Corsica-Argentina-Portugal and ends with 35 minutes from WRC Galla in Sydney.
When I write this we are in the middle of the hour from Monte.
Johan Kristoffersson will drive Romjulsrally in Norway December 29th in the Polo R5
https://www.norsk-rally.com/index.ph...dwHxEXLKIlBdPI
It is going to be another epic event.
http://www.otagorally.com/home/news/...urn-down-under
http://www.otagorally.com/home/news/...r-more-in-2019
Does anybody know what plans Eerik Pietarinen (Finnish Champion) has for 2019? Or what his aim is at least?
No idea, I'm afraid he'll turn into the new Sebastian Lindholm or Juha Salo, just winning Finnish Championships endlessly with no proper plan to go abroad.Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
He said that some WRC2 events at least. Rather sure that his season will start in Sweden. No Finnish Championship anymore, because his younger brother Henrik (SM2 Champion 2018) is aiming to drive TGS`s Fabia R5 in the Ralli SM next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
It´s the right thing if he wants to go further. No way he should waste any more money winning Finnish Championship. Let´s hope for a successfull start of an international career.Quote:
Originally Posted by rp
Neuville before 18 years
https://twitter.com/HartusvuoriWRC/s...87616345415680
not sure where to put this, but hope this takes off - RGT really deserves to become 'a thing'
http://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/...-car-a-reality
Once again the co-driver trophy is smaller then drivers or teams trophy. https://twitter.com/fia/status/1071146526523736064
Ex rally driver fits in bar talk thread i guess.
If you somehow have missed Kimi tonight, here it is!
https://twitter.com/Insidef1/status/1071134784707948544
That probably why Ingrassia is not smilingQuote:
Originally Posted by Essaj
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dt154GvXQAAXsTF.jpg
It's pretty, but difficult to drink wine from it.
It’d be great to have the Cayman rallying; 100 orders may seem a lot, but there’s a huge number of Porsche collectors always eager to get exclusive models, not caring about racing or rallying them (read somewhere that was the case of half of the 911 SCRS Gr. B production).Quote:
Originally Posted by dodge33cymru
Btw, we usually talk about RGT here: https://www.motorsportforums.com/sho...php?21279-GT-C
Besides how pissed off he was about the trophy, Ingrassia was also noticed for his shoes…
https://www.facebook.com/paulfraikin...8994949701543/
Has there been any news about the kid who got hurt in Wales in the motorcycle accident before the final stage of the event? did he make it? :/
https://europe.autonews.com/supplier...bustion-engine
A new hope for ICE’s? Fingers crossed!
I think it will be several years before you see the last ICE.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
I bet in 15 years time 60% of those so called "electrified" cars will still have some sort of ICE in them.
Anyway, every technology which indeed lowers emissions is welcome and I hope they get the funding.
They make some very bold claims, like up to 30% fuel consumption reduction, which equates to ~43% increase in efficiency from just the burning process, that seems like an unrealistically high number to me, but even if that is true and not just a marketing talk, and if they find the investment and interest required to implement it on a large scale, it will only slightly delay the inevitable. Even forgetting the sometimes dubious claims about the "cleanliness" of the electric cars (given the current state of electricity generation), and clumsiness of batteries aside, the electric motors are a much better propulsion system from pure dynamics point of view and only lose to the ICE's (in my passionate soul at least) on the sound front. But considering that the modern ICE sounds are so tamed and nothing like the 20, 30, 40 (or pick your number) years ago, then it makes for a pretty unfavorable future for the ICE's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Yep, it sounds a bit optimistic, but I still believe the right approach would be to continue ICE’s improvement alongside a huge development of the hydrogen tech; current EV’s are mostly a myth: the CO2 is just moving from cars exhausts to coal fired power plants chimneys (China and the other’s will never give up coal; even the US is now resisting).Quote:
Originally Posted by NickRally
Recently came across an article about the electrical power consumption of ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Some numbers for context, in a 2013 report, it was stated that the ICT annually uses the same amount of power as Germany and Japan combined produce. Another site claims that ICT accounts for 8-10% of European electricity consumption and up to 4% of its carbon emissions.
It's predicted that with the arrival of 5G it will most likely increase a lot more. Some projections predict that in 2040 ICT's global carbon footprint could be 50% of the current transportation carbon footprint.
So is our love for internet the next issue that's slowly showing itself on the horizon?
Cow farts seems to be a more urgent issue... https://www.forbes.com/sites/samlemo.../#67a2be6578a9Quote:
Originally Posted by Franky