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Twenty years a go South Park claimed so :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
Merry Christmas guys!
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Dimviii, I didn’t know that you are Latvala.
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Ηappy new year guys!!
Best wishes tou you, and your family!!
Happy new year to all forum members!
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(original winter image credits: Eyvind Brynildsen @E_Brynildsen , Rally Sweden 2017 recce)
Take care everybody! See you next year!
Hi everyone! Did not really know to which topic to write, so sorry if it came to wrong place. I am thinking of coming to spectate rally sweden, but car is not an option for me sadly. Is there any chance to take public transport to stages or any rallybus or tours? Stages either in norway or sweden would be ok, not sure if i have time for full rally now. Thanks in advance !!!
I have to say Miikka Anttila looks incredibly hot without a helmet. No wonder why Jari-Matti's been with him for so many years.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Happy new year for y'all! I've enjoyed reading the forum in 2018, let's keep it up in 2019!
Everyone, have an awesome 2019!
from my side happy new year. I hope that this forum will go in 2019 with positive and support thinking.
Have a look at Rally Sweden topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by masa90
Some things happen fast, some things happen slowly
Nandan already removed on this page https://motorsport.hyundai.com/team/key-people/
While Paddon & Marshall are still on this page but Loeb & Elena are not yet added https://motorsport.hyundai.com/team/crews/
May take several drinks before this starts to make sense.
I think he is waiting for call. Mikkelsen is on the edge and that edge is calling Monte. Still Paddon could swap his seat for a few outings...Quote:
Originally Posted by KiwiWRCfan
Loeb Ogier tests
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Aero seems to be working ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
There it goes away Nose end first.Quote:
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Hahaha!Quote:
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the "helicopter" footage is quite amusing
These guys deserve a medal. That was hilarious.Quote:
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- be careful Esapekka, that Budar guy isn't the nicest of team managers.
- wait till you meet the duo of Mäkinen and Miettinen, Kris. Just wait.
Is it too soon for entries in the 2019 N.O.T. photos with Autumn colors award ? https://scontent.fakl4-1.fna.fbcdn.n...12&oe=5CB70223
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#10YearChallenge Have @SebastienLoeb & @DanosElena changed much?�� #WRC #HMSGOfficial
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Now, I give a couple of beers for the person who fixes the points in Pickems...
This night 36 years ago, we had the last 2wd winner of the Monte and if I remember correctly, the conditions were not dissimilar to this year's edition, so I was thinking how cool it would be if we had less restrictive R-GT class with vehicles capable of being on the pace of the WRC cars, even if they were not eligible for overall honours.
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Impossible. in Belgium and France the cars aren't very limited, but can't compete with the top R5 cars. So competing with WRC is impossible.Quote:
Originally Posted by NickRally
The problem with that idea is that those 2WD gr.B Lancias 037 were not semi-production GTs. They were pure purpose-built race cars. In this point of view F2 kit cars were closer to them them than the current heavy GTs.Quote:
Originally Posted by dupanton
Also in that time the 4WD cars were young and suffered from issues which have long been overcome such as massive understeering or no chance to use handbrake turns on asphalt.
For sure it would be possible to win certain asphalt events with 2WD car if suitable rules are created but what you'll get would be nothing close to the production GT but rather some crazy prototype which would cost even more than WRC.
Dream on :)
It's interesting comparing the Monte 1983 and 1984 results. In 1983 Röhrl won with Lancia, Audis got only 4 stage wins. Then in 1984 Audis took a 1-2-3 and Lancia had only two stage wins and the best RWD car was 24 minutes off the winner.
To develop your idea further, maybe some RWD or FWD cars could be made competitible with the new R4 cars? So we could have something like the early Group A where 4WD cars are a bit underpowered and overweight, but the 2WD cars have less grip.
If I am not mistaken this photo is taken on stage St. Pierreville - Antraigues at the village St. Julien du Gua. This stage isn't being run anymore. I remember I visited it in 2010 and 2011 IRC editions when it was 45 km long (Mikkelsen crashed there once just after the start I think)...Quote:
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Humanly impossible :)? I love challenges.Quote:
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Granted, it is not going to be cheap, but that is not my point. I think it will be cool and I would relish the challenge if the right opportunity came about :)
But why would somebody do that for 2-3 events in the calendar?Quote:
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Mirek, I appreciate that a factory is unlikely to do this, but money does not have to come from a factory, motorsport is booming at private level and there a reasonable number of potential scenarios where a privateer can get involved as long as the right environment is established, which once again I appreciate, is unlikely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I think that it's not worth the effort. Creation of such environment also needs a lot of work to be done by FIA and the promoter. I prefer if they are building on what already works well instead of wasting time and resources on experiments with very questionably outcome.
I understand your point.
911’s won lots of events (and even championships) in Spain against S2000 or R5 cars, until they got a huge restrictor. It’d be nice to have a fair BoP allowing GT’s to battle R5 cars in national series and even on WRC tarmac events, but WRC cars should always remain as the pinnacle class of the sport. This said and once WRC cars are purposed build protos, it’d be fantastic to allow future WRC cars (always 4wd) to have a more diversified look, allowing GT or Coupe shaped cars.
I know I am biased, but I would support this ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
As a route enthusiast I sometimes enjoy planning my own versions of WRC rallies. After archiving old RAC rallies I came up with the idea of planning a version of the current Rally GB that would be situated in Northern England and contain the classic Kielder and Grizedale stages. I just don't know anything about the roads in the area other than what was driven 30 years ago, and nothing about how the roads are today, or how the current political situation would interfere with driving a stage or two in Scotland. But here's something I came up with
Version 1: Newcastle-based
Thursday: Ceremonial start in Carlisle
Friday: Morning leg consisting of Comb and ~30 km Grizedale (combining the old East and West versions). Repeat, drive towards Newcastle and do one run of Stang on the way towards afternoon service in Newcastle. Evening leg has Hamsterley, repeat of Stang and then again Hamsterley, super special in the late evening.
Saturday: Three stages in Kielder, for example Pundershaw, Wauchope and Redesdale. Midday service in Newcastle and repeat of the stages.
Sunday: Two ~10 km stages in Yorkshire – versions of Gale Rigg and Dalby with latter as power stage.
In this version the long liaisons on Sunday morning and Friday midday bother me, so I came up with another one
Version 2: Carlisle-based
Thursday: Super special in Carlisle
Friday: Morning leg again Comb and 30 km Grizedale, both repeated, then midday service on Carlisle. Afternoon leg on the North side with a stage combining Twiglees and Castle O'Er (20 km) and 10 km Craik. In the middle single-run 10 km Kershope and then repeats of Castle O'Er and Craik.
Saturday: Kielder, as in version 1
Sunday: Stang and Hamsterley, latter as shorter version and as power stage
If we could find more stages in the area between Carlisle and Grizedale we could base the whole Friday in that area and have instead Sunday in Scotland to make the timetable looser and have even less liaisons.
If you know about stages run in the area, drop a comment :)
I have to admit I also sometimes build myself stages or even whole rallies (including virtual WRC event) on the maps of my country (and since nearly every field road here has its street view on several map servers it's pretty easy to find great roads which will sadly never happen to become rally stages).
Yeah, obviously I've planned more routes for Rally Finland, where I know more about the roads, more roads used in local rallies and their state today. It's a fun puzzle to try to make a route that fits the current limitations (like 80 km of kilometres per leg). I can only imagine how complicated it is when you have also the marketing side and road permissions in the equation as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek