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Jari-Matti? where is he? :p
Happy birthday Björn Waldegård! 70 years old today.
+1 Can't believe it's 36 years since I watched him in the dark at Boltby on the 77 RAC - Great guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleAivano
Maybe this is the answer to your question.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
http://www.maxrally.com/2013/11/12/latv ... f-rally-gb
“The Finn was in Wolfsburg – home of his employer Volkswagen – last weekend to watch VfL Wolfsburg claim a shock 2-1 win over Borussia Dortmund in a German Bundesliga match before he headed to the town’s ice hockey stadium to show off his Polo R WRC and his talents with an ice hockey stick.”
Hope I'm around in 36 year's time to bore people about JML's great WRGB hat trick run :)Quote:
Originally Posted by OldF
This post is better than others because of useful and meaningful posts, great!
What kind of mobilephone I have to buy when I want listen WRC Live rallyradio? Android platform? Windows Phone (Nokia Lumia) does not work.
To this date there is no user friendly solution to listen to WRC live on a smartphone, which is quite a shame to be honest.
With an Android phone, you can try and open the url of the web streaming in a media player, but only if you succeeded extracting it out of the source code of the web page on wrc.com. Moreover when it works it is pretty jerky because it is not really supposed to be played that way.
If the Android phone in question supports Flash, I think just opening the wrc.com site works, but it can lead to strange behavior when you lock the phone because you don't know how the web browser reacts when the phone is on stand by.
I have read some rumours that for next season, the promoter will come up with brand new apps for mobile phones, so I hope the problem of live radio on mobile will be sorted out then.
Thanks!
Let´s hope that we get proper WRC apps for mobile phones. Nokia WRC app was pretty good.
Today its 8 years since the passing of Richard Burns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQdAwuZXAWc
Yeah, we all miss him. I met him personally several times. A brilliant pleasant young man and a fantastic WRC-driver.
I can't believe it's already 8 years. He was a brilliant guy
Really is weird that I was reading the 1998 Rally Year over the weekend (95p from a charity shop in Kent). Seeing the pictures of the first year of Burn's WRC ascendancy is really poignant when you know he only had 7 years ahead of him. Very sad I never saw him in the flesh.
It was in 1997 I believe and RB drove a Mitsu in Rally GB. On one stage he beat Colin with over a minute. Both drivers had no error. Why he did that? It was very foggy night stage and RB´s pacenotes was so detailed he could drive like a blind and still make a very fast time.
Probably one of the best onboard in WRC history, a fitting tribute to Richard Burns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGtCYoBx ... e=youtu.be
until 7:40 yes...then he slowed down...Quote:
Originally Posted by makinen_fan
Petter Solberg is said to have crashed slighly with his PR Mitsu Gr N car in on a stage nearby his home on an event today. The passenger was having a slight back injury and was sent to hospital. It´s not confirmed Petter was the driver.
The car had some damage to the front according to Per Espen Löchen spokesman of the Solberg team.
I never give up my opinions from som threads. :p
2 beers for Tolis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
I prefer Becherovka! :bounce:Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Sorry for off topic but I can't understand why everybody from abroad I know likes Becherovka. I don't like it at all :D
But tolis, if I go to Greece one day I can bring it to You. Usually I carry it to Ypres as well :D
Well, it's a great liquor. Both as a digestif (straight) or as a long drink mixed with schweppes tonic. I'm a big fan :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Angostura for me as far as bitters go. Although I do par-take in the odd Jager bomb. Just to support Red Bull.
WRC 2013 QUIZ: Here it is - the WRC 2013 quiz! How much do you remember of the last year in WRC?
There are no prizes - just a very smug feeling if you get them all correct - good luck! :D
Hurry - the quiz closes on Christmas Eve!
http://rallyinguk.polldaddy.com/s/the-wrc-2013-quiz
Off topic of course, but for me: Appleton Estate Rum with Coca Cola is absolute best, except from a Staroprahmen if I´m really thirsty... (Mirek ;) )
91% only failed on Prokop´s best place in 2013... :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallying UK
SS5, Labatie d'Andaure - Lalouvesc 1 VW Polo R WRC won it’s first WRC stage winQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallying UK
Really?
Coke in a sipping rum! Sacrilege! That's why they make Lamb's and Captain Morgan. As a West Indian friend once told me, (imagine the accent) "only ting ya puts in a sippin rum i' another measure, man"Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Have you tried Coke mixed with Scotch Whiskey? It works too... :D (I think we´ll have to change to "Bar" thread...)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mintexmemory
Well spotted / remembered. Ogier won the very first stage of the 2013 MC!Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
How can not remember something like very first stage and stage win. Moreover Loeb was still fresh competing :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mintexmemory
If I would be really very very thirsty I would drink Staropramen too but only in a risk of dehydration :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
I think I have very different taste than You guys. I don't like Becherovka, I don't like Staropramen and I prefer pure whiskey (or rum) from mixed with Coke :D
PS I asked Pluto to move this off-topic to bar talk. Thanks for understanding.
Absolutely fine - this is certainly bar talk!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
Mixing coke with superior rums or single malts is a filthy degenerate action that I'd expect of americans. They developed the habit to hide the fact that the majority of bourbons are not a 'smooth' drink. A sipping rum can, in very hot weather, have some fresh lime juice squeezed in but a whisky should only ever have a little spring water added and never ice!
My favourite pils / lager -type beer is Peroni but I have very wide tastes in beer depending on the occasion.
Yesterday we decanted the sloe gin we've been maturing for 3 months - first tasting after dinner on Christmas day. :lips:
Seems we have different views on the subject, however I could well have pure Captain Morgan Black, no problem at all. :lips:
And beerwise I´m a bit towards my finnish friends with Duplapukki 8,5 as a special favourite. :beer:
Great beer and speakers from Iisalmi. By the way it´s TUPLAPUKKI :beer:
ouzo power!
I managed to get about 20 free Ouzos on Crete last summer.:-DQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
So boys, what does coming days look like for you? Any expectations for next WRC-year?
Whiskey, wine, beer, and Bulgarian brendy these days :D Some fireworks on new year's eve. Next year VW will dominate, I expect the best of the rest to be Ford, but not because are so good, but others will fail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
My good lady and I are halfway through a good bottle of champagne so my 2014 WRC expectations (maybe a dedicated thread?) Might be wildly speculative!
JML to be closer to Ogier in terms of performance but Ogier taking the title. Kris Meeke will be the big surprise and the closest VW challenger. Hyundai not to perform well until the summer tarmac rounds.
M-Sport to do worse than last year but Kubica and Evans to také podiums at some time