He is normally doing second leg. But on first stage of Saturday you must searching from bottom, not top...Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
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He is normally doing second leg. But on first stage of Saturday you must searching from bottom, not top...Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
I think this is question to the different thread, not Corse 2014...Quote:
Originally Posted by liposh
Breen and Kajto had problems already on first stage of today again, Kajto finally retired ... Breen still driving.
I´m not. Only sarcastic. Lappi won the championship. That´s the fact. His performance in this rally doesn´t count for him, which may have been one reason for going off.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Statistics maybe, but Abbring hasn´t done maybe more than half of the stages this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by rage82
Yep, Magalhães used to be faster. Lets be fair: he still got the speed but he's no longer a pro (Peugeot Sport Portugal team stopped a few years ago), and as a privateer budget restrictions makes him to get less courses and less testing. And you need lots of Kms at the wheel to keep a top level. We can also question if his Delta 208 is as fast as those of SaintéLoc (doubt it). Either way, maybe he could look at Abbring's example and make a step back into the 208 Cup. He's still in time to revitalize his career. Best luck to him!Quote:
Originally Posted by HaCo
Btw: great job from Camili, another young french talent. Amazing to see how France is replacing Finland as rally drivers top force!
Would be nice to Loix doing ERC, would be a nice crown for his career which he deserves I think.
Some thoughts from my side:
- Sarrazin ++ (with ''0'' stage km leading against European top drivers, very remarkable achievement)
- Bouffier + (everything less than top three position would be disappointment)
- Abbring + (personally I expected for him to be in a fight for a victory-he was always leading rallies until P208T16 broke down. Maybe he deliberately loosend his pace to finish the rally...who knows...)
- Camilli ++ (I don't know the driver-is he a local guy??; anyway he is much faster than some regular EC drivers..)
- Dumas ++ (surprise; to beat Magalhaes & Leandri with 2WD circuit car on so twisty rally - excellent performance by him)
- Magalhaes - - (just look his lag behind front runners, losing constantly....)
- Crungola ++ (well, young Italian driver is very very fast, sometimes very close to R3 top driver Guglielmi)
- Lappi - ( I know he was driving without pressure /already champion/, but if he was pushing, he was still behind Sar & Buff, and than crashing....he is a lucky guy this season, not the fastest one, with some offs, but still a champion..)
Crugnola upped his pace this year very good in Junior ERC but it seems Lefebvre is holding off just for getting that title home, it would be another story when Lefebvre would drive like he always does. And Crugnola with all his experience (lots of rallies done already in Italy and abroad) in mountain rallies, it's good to win but also not so surprising. Sarrazin had Cevennes done 2 weeks ago, a very good test for Corse. Camilli is not a Corsican but from Marseille and is hugely talented if you look to his results this year :)
I agree Ucci.
Keith Cronin: Slid off the road on a fast corner. No grip and car wouldn't turn in. Scrubbed off a lot of speed but went off the road head first. Only lost a bumper but no way can get back on the road. Gutted.
Retired the Subaru on SS9. :(
As for Breen today - had a puncture, stopped for pigs on the road and a faulty intercom ... :(
He should go home and stay in bed til 2015...
Hasn't been a great year for him; almost everything that could go wrong, has. Not impressed with Peugeot, at all. Both Craig and Kevin might have been better running the 207, and purely testing the 208.
However, it looks as if Sarrazin is edging away from Bouffier. I saw a comment last night on Twitter, is there a better 'all rounder' than Sarrazin.
i think he might be one of the next french rally stars... i think he is already parte of the ffsa rally teamQuote:
Originally Posted by Ucci
I would like to see him on different type of stages than in France...Quote:
Originally Posted by marcosg
Congratulations to Sarrazin! Would be nice to see more of him in ERC, and Bouffier too.
I was a bit disappointed with the pace of the 208 here.. difference in drivers, R5 vs RRC or Ford vs Peugeot?
Why the hell Lappi's crash onboard is removed from Youtube on copyright complaint by BUNDESLIGA? :D
Are you sure abou kopecky?till September he hadn't signed a contract,I don't know if he signed later.Quote:
Originally Posted by liposh
Congrats to Sarrazin for his win on Tour de Corse, last win of RRC car in ERC.
So what is the win count in 2014 erc?
Mini =1 wins
Peugeot =1 wins
Skoda =4 wins
Ford = 5 wins (once with R5, 4 times RRC)
This is the first time when Ford wins the most events since the beginning of IRC era?
Great win today by Sarrazin. I was thinking that Camilli is really young boy, but I discovered today that he is 27 already!
Why Pluto, is RRC not allowed next year?Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
Congratulations to Sarrazin. He is probably one of the best drivers in motorsport: fast in rally and fast in circuit racing.
Huge respect for Eric Camilli with his performance. Now I want to see this driver outside France in an international championship.
Guglielmi won the 2WD class. He is always fast in Corse.
The good news is that the Jänner Rallye is already quite close now. :)
Huge congratulations to happy winner-Sarrazin. I never expected for a circuit driver to win rally in E.C. I know that he has some experience (also testing Yaris WRC), but testing is never comparable to ''stage'' experience. Well done and also a reminder for all established drivers, that they are not unbeatable....and some of them are professionals! A bit embarrassing, if you ask me....
So glad for Stephane Sarrazin, he really overwhelmed my expectations of him in this rally. I haven't followed Corsica at all, but I'm really happy for Sarrazin. Some 15 years ago I watched him win his very first Formula 3000 race after rain-chaos, later I watched him make his debut in Formula 1 and I was a fan of him as he raced for my favorite team Minardi in Brazil back in 1999. Some 5 years later I thought he had a very bright future in rallying after a ground breaking 4th place in France in a privateer Subaru. I actually wrote a story about him signing for works SWRT team in 2005, anticipating an asphalt win later that year. Too bad that they didn't allow him to gain more experience in rallying. I hope Peugeot will hire him for a ERC title attempt next year! :)
Sarrazin won Var 2001 too
Sarrazin was a factory Subaru driver for some tarmac rallies back in the day so he definately has experience driving rally stages. Hats off of course for him, winning the rally and he was very fast from the first stage untill the end without making a mistake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ucci
He drove also IRC for Peugeot several times. He was battling for victory in Monte Carlo at least twice. He also did Ypres but crashed very early.
Some will say I'm stupid, but if you see Abbring's times and also in France after day 1 he didn't push and then the damn car can finish... I'm very sure we didn't see the Abbring from previous ERC events, I'm very aware he could have battled for the win, RRC's are very strong in mountain rallies but R5 have also the turbo. This was a crap season for Breen but even more for Abbring he has more potential than Breen, and I know with this comment that some will not agree. But I know it for sure that Abbring is WRC potential driver.
Did the Toyota Yaris testing help Sarrazin? i.e The feedback from the Toyota Engineers.
Feedback probably also a little, but mostly the kilometers he done behind the wheel of Yaris.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeakiwi
Hasn't Magalhaes a support of Peugeot Portugal now ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rally Power
I think he will do WRC 3 next year. French federation will stop Rallye Jeunes detection program to focus on him and Yohan Rossel in the future, and help them to jump to WRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by PLuto
Peugeot Portugal only sponsors (don't have the numbers but they shouldn't be high) Magalhães. Back in the 90's and 00's Peugeot Portugal had a full rally structure that was several times national champion and gave their drivers some foreign rally experiences. The greater of those was Miguel Campos 2nd place (with equal number of points of the champion, Bruno Thiry) in 2003 ERC, with a 206WRC rallied by the team. Managed by former (since the 205T16 days) PTS mechanic Carlos Barros, it was considered one of the top Peugeot Sport satellite teams. Due to low sales (portuguese auto market reduce hugely since 2009), 3 years ago the importer closed the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by vino_93
You could watch Sarrazin's 2006 season with Subaru in the documentary, "Engineering the World Rally. His teammates that season were Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSzPs6GC-o
Didn't circuit driver Kubica win Janner Rally 11 months ago? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ucci
:D He was veeeeery lucky there
Sarrazin won Var 2001 :)
Sarrazin doesn't count, he is not circuit driver. On the other hand Kubica is, and always will be:D
Yes, but it was not his personal fault to get in danger there as you know too.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
Probably You mean the last stage? I meant in general, the whole Rally, he escaped several times on different stages.Quote:
Originally Posted by WUff1