Another big news, hungarian champion "Asi" will drive a Honda Civic R3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ciko
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Another big news, hungarian champion "Asi" will drive a Honda Civic R3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ciko
Will be very interesting to see how he goes
Juha Salo won Finnsco rally. Kosti Katajamäki was second and Ari Vihavainen. third. Joonas Lindroos had a flat tyre on the penultimate stage and dropped from the second place to fifth. Top three in the championship is Salo (Mitsubishi), Katajamäki (Mitsubishi) and Lindroos (Subaru). Esapekka Lappi won the SM2 class. Top three in this category is Kalle Pinomäki (Renault), Esapekka Lappi (Honda) and Jukka Korhonen (Honda).
http://tulossivu.autourheilu.fi/34R10/01/16/
This event was Kosti Katajamäki´s last rally. He will retire from active competition, but may compete some smaller events sometimes, but not any series anymore...
Kosti´s statistics:
http://gamma.nic.fi/~globe1/rally/pa...maki_kosti.htm
Too bad luck for Lindroos then, though 3rd in the series with one event victory was good for first season in 4wd. Also surprised to hear about Kosti's retirement, though it is understandable to a degree. He has been quite unlucky all season. It still is one less driver in a series that's already struggling for competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by rp
Esapekka Lappi was disqualified for making repairs to the car at time control which is prohibited. Thus Marko Mänty won the class. Kalle Pinomäki who did won all previous events retired earlier.
Didn't know that rally paradise still works..
A 11 minutes video of the ARBÖ Rallye Steiermark in Austria:
http://www.ir7.at/content/fotos_orm_...010.php#videos
http://www.ir7.at/content/newsimg/arb10fot.jpg
Jouni Lampinen will quit his 25 years long career in rallying which means his long-term driver Joonas Lindroos is in need of new co-driver.
Teemu, do You know what exactly happened to Tänak and Miettinen?
I wasn't there, but reading from the bulletins Tänak's story is a bit weird. He was leading after SS5, but then on SS6 he went off. And if I understand the big picture right, while he was off the stage was cancelled because of an accident further into the stage. Tänak got back on the road, but was stopped at the other accident place and showed to the reroute for next stage. Later for SS6, rally officials gave Tänak a provisional time (fastest time) + 10 minute penalty "based on his performance on SS6". That's quite unclear, though fair to a degree if he'd been off the road for a long time (I don't know how long). Other drivers were given a time based on their avarage performance on SS1-5. Hmm... And if I understood right, Tänak didn't finish the last stage of Saturday. Tänak choosed not to continue on Sunday stages due to lots of time penalties. Car was okey.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze
Jarkko Miettinen retired on the first SS in Sunday due to transmission problems.