[WRC] Tet Rally Latvia 2024

It's quite easy, some "big name" was closing in on the local hero, this has happened before, lots of times.

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Originally Posted by Morte66

I'm not sure what to make of Sesks....He looks like he could be somebody's third driver for gravel. I think the most interesting thing is that he seemed just as happy in the hybrid as the non-hybrid, and happier in his first WRC1 hybrid outing than Lappi did after six months off WRC1. I bet a few people at Hyundai are looking at Lappi and Mikkelsen with questions.

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Lappi had first weak gravel (speedwise) since 2020.
Mikkelsen just did first gravel since 2019 and did better than Sesks in Latvia on same type of rally.

Myself I am more surprised that nobody compared Sesks with Fourmaux who has now had 1,5 seasons in the car and is constantly glorified for his results this year.
Seks was close to him without hybrid and clearly faster with it.
Is it just the driver or is the Puma now much better and Fourmaux actually underperforms?

Don’t know if this was posted here https://x.com/rallyinguk/status/1815...C1kV5QC61vX5Xg

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Originally Posted by mknight

Myself I am more surprised that nobody compared Sesks with Fourmaux who has now had 1,5 seasons in the car and is constantly glorified for his results this year.
Seks was close to him without hybrid and clearly faster with it.
Is it just the driver or is the Puma now much better and Fourmaux actually underperforms?

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it would be unfair to compare Sesks and Fourmaux at Monte.

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Originally Posted by dimviii

it would be unfair to compare Sesks and Fourmaux at Monte.

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Yes. Sesks won both Poland and Latvia before and it's normal to expect him being fast there. The ERC level isn't that bad.

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Originally Posted by TypeR

People standing next to the fallen arch like morons, thinking that next driver will push the KITT ,,turbo boost'' button and jump over.
Yes, I like Tanak's driving, but at this moment it doesn't matter if it was Tanak, Neuville, Ogier or any other tens and tens of drivers, who put all their effort in this sport..
Luckily it didn't end anyones rally and were able to continue, but could easily be a roll and dnf.

And then.. ,,oh sorry..''

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Fortunately I didn't need to to that on a WRC event but as a spectator who stopped/slowed down cars coming to an accident site numerous times I can't understand people just waiting for the inevitable crash with their cameras on...

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Originally Posted by rallyfiend

So you expect the TV producer to show a potential accident?

What does that have to do with the actions of Race Control?

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Probably, almost sure, the race Control was following the TV transmission as is usual to do.

We have to wait by the investigation, but i wouldn't be surprised if at that momment the race control didn't knew what was really going on with that arch being down.

Yes bystanders, marshals, control could have done things.

But it's not such a blind corner.

Is it not unreasonable to expect the driver to either:
i) attempt to slow down and go around the obstruction
ii) attempt to stop despite hitting the obstruction.

Only one person made the decision to put his foot down hoping to blast through to the other side.

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I was noticing it too but you are the first to say it. It looked like Ott didnt even try to break and just floors it.

I could be wrong but that is what I saw and heard from those crappy videos.

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Originally Posted by WRCStan

Yes bystanders, marshals, control could have done things.

But it's not such a blind corner.

Is it not unreasonable to expect the driver to either:
i) attempt to slow down and go around the obstruction
ii) attempt to stop despite hitting the obstruction.

Only one person made the decision to put his foot down hoping to blast through to the other side.

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If you want to win, never give up. Ott didn´t give up. He tried.

Essential to know why some win and some doesn´t even try... ;)