Solberg 2nd, Loeb 3rd and Thierry 12th
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Solberg 2nd, Loeb 3rd and Thierry 12th
Strange. I do not understand their decision. All kind of rain stopped around 2 hours ago on tomorrow stages. Start of stage 1 is at 08:28 that is around 14 hours after the end of rain. Sun raises at 07:34. Jari-Matti starts around 08:55 for the shortest stage and around 09:20 for the second stage (2 hours after the sunrise). Latest weather maps, that just came out, say that there will not be even a single raindrop for tomorrow. I just do not understand Citroen decision.. even not in the longer term. And Neuville starts behind Nobre. Tomorrow we will have two 32 km stages...Quote:
Originally Posted by GigiGalliNo1
How on earth can they think of dropping this round......The Best roads in the Championship!
Stohl faster than Block and Araujo straight out of the box :) and Al-Raji & local with Impreza faster than the protons :laugh:
strange decission of starting order picks for me, Stohl for example said that he is quite happy that he has at least 3 cars ahead of him for sweeping the roads after the qualifying.....in his opinion even if it rains to be first car is an disadvantage on the very special slippery gravel roads of new zealand!
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But lets wait.....works teams are of course no fools at all ;)
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention.
During Shakedown while the rally cars were on their free runs, the odd family wagon taking the kids to school would drive past at about 40 km/h. It happened at least 3 times.
Hard to say if the organisers allowed this to let the local farmers' wife to drop the kids off, or they, the locals, just thought f*#@ it and drove throw the tape on their driveways. On at least one occasion as Mum and kids drove past, steering at the spectators on their usually quiet rural road, you could hear a WRC car in full throttle not far away.
Scary stuff, especially when Jari Matti's average speed was 120 km/h.
Interested to see what other's at shakedown thought.
The starting order for Stage 1
First Mikko Hirvonen
Second Petter Solberg
Third Sebastien Loeb
4th Ott Tänak
5th Dani Sordo
6th Jari Ketomaa
7th Evgeny Novikov
8th Manfred Stohl
9th Ken Block
10th Armindo Araujo
11th Paulo Nobre
12th Thierry Neuville
13th Jari-Matti Latvala
If there must be an escort during a motorsport event, there should be officials car there, hence called an escort, and to make sure the road is clear when competitors start. If not, scary stuff. And I think there shouldn't really be any such interuptions to a World Rally Championship events. For smaller, local or national, I understand it, but never like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maui J.
They should use a bit of forestry road for the shakedown or another piece of road with no residences close by, definitely getting harder to find these days with so much sealed road close to Auckland.
Latvala is likely to be starting too low, how many cars is he likey to catch in some stages ?
Sordo has a good start position if conditions are as I would expect them to be.
Strange stuff can happen e.g coastal fog, fog in the valleys of the 'inland stages', sunstrike as the sun is low etc
Expect Loeb easily in lead with Sordo if the car is right, somewhere close.
10 hours of live rally NZ day 2 and 3 on NZ Sky Tv... can't wait for the weekend.
Latvala wins Rally NZ qualifier - 3 Sport - Video - 3 NewsQuote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
MTV3 reporting Louise Cook's ambitious three-year plan to become...nothing less than a world champion. :)
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sometimes in the google translation there is more truth then in the original press release :) : for sure she wants a world champion.....I want a supermodel! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Juha_Koo
Just like in motorsport, bring the money and you can have it. :D
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Originally Posted by Juha_Koo
I wish her to succeed where a certain Matt Wilslow failed :p :
She wont finish a rally with a time within the same hour as Matthew. He pace is glacial.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Nobre's tribute to Gareth Roberts
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...19273650_n.jpg
It's funny to see Nicola Arena in both entry lists of Ypres and New Zealand. In the end, Arena will start in a Historic Rally in Italy! :D
Is there a stream of sky nz, or a channel on sopcast that anyone may know about?
im soo nervous... i hope Latvala doesn't get an issue on this one..
Yes! Nokia´s WRC Live app is still working...
Site officiel de Sébastien Loeb - Nouvelle Zelande 2012
On the special qualification, I do the fourth time behind Latvala, Hirvonen and Solberg. Jari-Matti has chosen the first starting position and he chose from the last WRC or 13th. For my part, I preferred to lock onto those closest to me in the championship, so I'm going on the third position behind Mikko and Petter who chose to go ahead.
Are you ready? 20 minutes for SS1 to start!
are we half hour before start of stage 1?
edit didn t saw Tolis post.
Any news about weather at first stages?
about 10 min now, is wrc radio on? cannot hear it
I'm just going to "a bit early-midsummer" sauna when the first stage begins... Oh well. :)
Weather looks nice. Sunny and around +10 degrees, some wind. No rain visible. Temperature should climb near to +15 today. Surface is still damp.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
First 1.5 km is pure tarmac. It should be dry.
First split is in - Petter +1.8s to Mikko at Split 1
what happens for PS, 2 splits and already down 7s
Solberg with issues? 7s down at Split 2?
so we expect Jari to be faster at first dry stages.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
wrong tyre choice again seems..
Solberg and Sordo on hards - everyone else on softs
Go Mikko! Storming start by Hirvonen.
maybe hards are better at next 32km stage...Quote:
Originally Posted by pettersolberg29
probably it will turn around, 30, 32 and 32 km to go... prob he can make up some time, though i doubt it. citroen rarely get it wrong on tyres
Loeb will hardly make mistake.
Maximum attack now Jari-Matti. Fastest on the route!
jml slightly faster than mh. so road position strategy has no effect here