yes, and he still drives a S1600 car... For me it would be very boring for such a long time without real fight. But he's still worth watching, very spectacular and fast!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
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yes, and he still drives a S1600 car... For me it would be very boring for such a long time without real fight. But he's still worth watching, very spectacular and fast!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
This is not rally, but rallycross. I was yesterday at 4th round of Finnish rallycross championship and witnessed the worst crash I've seen.
On 3rd round of qualifications in SRC class (rear wheel drive, no limits in engines, up to 300-400 hp) after the start there where car contact and one of the cars, a Volvo S40, crashed heavily - initial hit was roof first at an armco that bent the roof in from head to head, them car flew up some 4-5 metres up rolling vertically, doors flew high up (on this video you see them go, but you don't see them land yet) and then landing with another roll on its roof. It took 40 minutes to get the driver out of the car. I don't know how seriously he was hurt, but it's been told he's status is stable. On two previous qualifications he drove so well that he would've been in A-final.
http://www.samzon.kuvat.fi/kuvat/sam...e.jpg/_big.jpg
Picture taken from this gallery.
Sportwise it was a great event, lots of one-on-one battles. There were also a dramatic end to division 1 A-final. Sami Pakkala in Honda Civic, who was clearly fastest of the lot, won the final but he forgot to take the joker lap - for which he would've had clearly time for. Thus Toomas Heikkinen won as were the case in three previous rounds as well, so he won the championship already with two rounds left. Per Eklund made a guest visit as well, ending up third.
Final results Mad-Croc Estonian Rally:
1 Markko Märtin/Kristo Kraag (Ford Focus WRC'03 - A8) 1h33'19"1
2 Ott Tänak/Kuldar Sikk (Subaru Impreza WRX STI - N4) +2'50"3
3 Toni Gardemeister/Tomi Tuominen (FIN / Ford Fiesta S2000 - N4) +4'13"4
4 Margus Murakas/Jaago Kuriks (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 - N4) +4'48"3
5 Martin Prokop/Jan Tománek (CZ / Ford Fiesta S2000 - N4) +5'19"6
6 Marko Kasepöld/Rein Jöessar (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6 - A8) +6'11"9
7 Ago Ahu/Kalle Ahu (Subaru Impreza WRX STI - N4) +6'29"4
8 Raimonds Kisiels/Arnis Ronis (LV / Mitsubishi Lancer WRC - A8) +6'47"9
9 Markko Kakko/Panu Plosila (FIN / Ford Fiesta S2000 - N4) +6'50"2
10 Margus Remmak/Urmas Roosimaa (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 - N4) +7'57"2
11 Kaspar Koitla/Andres Ots (Honda Civic Type-R - A7) +8'49"1
12 Sander Pärn/Ken Järveoja (Renault Clio R3 - A7) +9'13"9
13 Gennadiy Broslavskiy/Alexander Gorlanov (RUS / Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 - N4) +9'24"3
14 Einar Laipaik/Siimo Suvemaa (BMW M3 - E11) +9'59"5
15 Artem Nazarov/Sergei Larens (RUS/EE / Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 - N4) +10'12"8
16 Radik Shaymiev/Maxim Tsvetkov (RUS / Peugeot 207 S2000 - N4) +10'18"7
17 Martin Kangur/Mait Laidvee (Honda Civic Type-R R3 - A7) +11'54"4
18 Georg Gross/Raigo Mölder (Ford Focus WRC - A8) +12'22"3
19 Karl Kruuda/Martin Järveoja (Honda Civic Type-R R3 - A7) +13'41"0
20 Siim Plangi/Marek Sarapuu (Honda Civic Type-R - A7) +14'35"4
34 Peter Horsey/Calvin Cooledge (KEN/GB / Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 10 - N4) +20'24"7
42 Michael Honda/Lydie Vičíková (CZ / Citroën C2 S1600 - A6) +24'48"9
Most important retirements were Ivars Vasaraudzis (LV / Mitsubishi Lancer WRC), Kert Uus (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9), Axel Lindholm (FIN / Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 10), Oleksii Tamrazov (UA / Subaru Impreza WRX STI)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjZzWM_aqtE
From Mad Croc Rally Estonia - crazy place. I strongly advise to look through whole of the two-minute clip.
Some pics from Mad-Croc Rally Estonia: http://www.rallifotod.eu/album270/fotod.html
If miracle happens and Märtin enters Finnish rally with this "vintage" Focus, i wonder how far off the pace would he be? He was very fun to watch this weekend, almost like in good old times. Even when he had technical problems, he managed to win all stages. Other 2 WRC cars werent much competition to him...
Final results Veszprém Rally (H):
1. ifj. Tóth/Tagai Peugeot 207 S2000 N4 1:01:11,5
2. Aschenbrenner/Pikó Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4 +32,3
3. Turi/Percze Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4 +1:01,4
4. Hideg/Kismődi Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4 +1:17,9
5. Elek/Ferencz Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4 +1:22,9
6. Kazár/Szőke Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4 +1:27,1
7. ifj. Ranga/Czakó Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4 +1:33,8
8. Matics/Viczena Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII S3 +1:37,5
9. Botka/Szenner Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4 +1:41,6
10. Balogh/Németh Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX N4 +1:43,8
Video from the rally:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZjKSpozUU
I think the man of the rally was Janos Toth, he was pushing very hard. Just watch the video at 8:00. :)
i was 2008 at veszprem rally. it was one of the best rallyes i ever had seen. fantastic fight between spitzmüller (lancer wrc), benik ( focus wrc) and turan (307 wrc). i see the maps of the special stages they drive this year and i thing thats very bad. they drive 5 times the stage with the little autocross stage! 2007 there are fantastic stages. the big jutaspuszta stage on saturday und the smal on sunday
pictures on this stages:
http://www.s298227569.online.de/imag...1253520468.jpg
http://www.s298227569.online.de/imag...1253520833.jpg
Banta- Köröshegy with the big jump:
http://www.s298227569.online.de/imag...1253520467.jpg
and the fast hajmasker stage. it was fantastic.
why they dont drive this stages?
+ Egon Kaur (EST / Impreza)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wim_Impreza
He was 2th in N4 and 4th overall when he crashed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBLfH2g98U
Thanks, I didn't knew he was so high in the standings until his retirement.