You mean this technical problem? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Salist
http://www.duen.hu/images/tagok/0077...7765_93894.jpg
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You mean this technical problem? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Salist
http://www.duen.hu/images/tagok/0077...7765_93894.jpg
Sorry guys...
My informant was bad. :(
This is a short video of the rescue:
http://www.rallyfanatic.hu/modules.p...rder=0&thold=0
Dont worry, In many national championships drivers have to declare the reason of retirement. You could clearly see that it was technical problem:-) Something was broken on the front right :-PQuote:
Originally Posted by Salist
I have seen a car that rolled and then hit the tree and the reason of the retirement was of course cooling system failure :-) Because the radiator was also broken :-P
Yeah, no problem at all :) Just remember Kankkunen or someone calling to Malcolm Wilson that he has some engine overheating while his Escort was crashed into a piece of garbage :D
We should have a topic with anecdotes :)
Continuing that topic.. In last Estonian Championship rally, Tallinn Ralli.. The youngest participant was Allan Popov. He is currently 16 years old. One week before the rally he crashed into the electricity pole and destroyed the front end of the car: http://rally.ee/?a=a022&b=136376&p=1Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
Somehow his team managed to repair his Civic Type -R in less that one week. But the joke was that he had a puncture at the first part of the second real stage. He stopped in front of me on the outside fast corner and they decided to change a wheel.
Co-driver took the new wheel and driver jacked the car and suddenly they found that they didn't had a suitable wrench for the wheel nuts. Then one spectator offered his wrench (which is of course not allowed but he was not fighting for the win anyway), it was with the right size but the wheel nuts were so long that it was not possible to use that one. So, then after about 6 minutes they finally managed to collect all the stuff and continue driving, still without front right tire (tire flew completely away).
Somehow they reach till the end of the stage and to the service and also nearly until the end of the rally. They retired at the start of the last spectator stage, because he stalled the engine at the start-line and he could not restart it anymore. The start was uphill and marshals pushed him until the cars started but they still decided to retire less than 1km before the end of rally.
So, a bit unlucky rally.
Probably his luck was given to Radik Shaymiev (Peugeot 207 S2000) who broke his steering on the last corners of the last stage. He lost less than 1 minute and fell from 9th to 14th. The finish line of the rally was still approximately 0.5 km away and to get there he finally found that the car is moving while reversing. So, he finished the rally by driving backwards:-)
Nice video from Salgo-Gemer Rally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz3JSDNbbVQ
Victory by clear domination for Grégoire Hotz at the rallye du Chablais(swiss championship)with a 2'06" gap over Florian Gonon... ;)
Another great video:Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWmuSjoz6V8
The third round of the Austrian Rally Championship, the Castrol Judenburg-Poelstal Rallye, was held this weekend.
Raimund Baumschlager achieved his third victory this season driving his Skoda Fabia S2000. The Mitsubishi Evo-X drivers Mario Saibel and Andreas Aigner finished second and third.
Final results:
01. Baumschlager / Zeltner, Skoda Fabia S2000 1:17:02.7
02. Saibel / Mayrhofer, Mitsubishi Evo X +47.5
03. Aigner / Weißengruber, Mitsubishi Evo X +1:14.8
04. Waldherr / Ettel, VW Polo S2000 +1:22.3
05. Grössing / Watzl, Mitsubishi Evo IX +2:16.0
06. Sonnleitner / Müller, Mitsubishi Evo IX +3:40.9
07. Pasteiner / Kaiser, Mitsubishi Evo IX +3:48.5
08. Stohl / Minor, Peugeot 207 S2000 CNG +4:43.9
Some images of the Rally can be found here:
http://www.ir7.at/content/fotoscastrol2010.php
http://www.ir7.at/cas10_1.jpg
http://www.ir7.at/cas10_2.jpg