Yes, but we aren’t sitting here wondering how many stages will be cancelled due to lack of snow/ice.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
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Yes, but we aren’t sitting here wondering how many stages will be cancelled due to lack of snow/ice.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Who in EV-loving Norway would fund a WRC event? Would love to see it return again though…Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
No, It's reindeers this time, even more unpredictable!Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
Doubt Norway will ever host it again on our own, we got lucky with who was in government the first time.
Hey there! I'm looking to attend to SS Floda, but I need the help of a local/someone that knows the current state of the smaller roads around the stage. Precisely, I'd like to know whether the road that starts in the blue star in the image is drivable or not. You'd help me a lot, thanks!
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If you look in streetview it wasn't last year and dead end roads with no houses are very rarely plowed. https://www.google.com/maps/@64.3628...7i16384!8i8192Quote:
Originally Posted by jparerax7
awosome in what way ? lol what are you some simpleton farmer that judges people from a chat ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyest
99.9% of this forum would be faster than him in his car...
thats the problem with rallying.. its too friendly... we allow every clown in the sport and cheer on them... then we wonder why the sport is dead... why a serious manufacturer would invest in a sport that allows worthless clowns to get their hands on the top machinery without any filter.
would you enjoy the olympics if you had competitors jumping 2 meters in long jump ? would you enjoy football if you had teams that would lose 20-0 to the top teams ?
every sport has a system that people have to prove they can compete at the top... but not in rallying... nope here we are happy with everyone... its like having an olympics and special olympics merged in one... with retards and top athletes competing together...
did you know that in WRC serderidis is a legit recognised champion ? what a great sport....
thank god f1 has some interest once more.
BTW, today evening was raining in Umea...Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
[QUOTE=Rallyest;1319067and if i would be a moderator i would send you to a vacation from this forum...getting that personal about someone on a friendly rallying forum is retarded[/QUOTE]
of course its easier to silence someone that argue with them...
what weak gormless spinelss times we live in...
That is exactly what I can't understand. Maybe it's a question of my different character, but I would never ever use my own money to compromise myself like this. I mean how can you explain a result such as this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyest
Behind 15-year-old Citroen C2 R2? Come on...
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/8...lveralli-2023/
Umeå are signed until 2024 right? so if they were to move the event again, it wouldn't happen before 2025? (I'm guessing).
Or why not Jyväskylä in winterQuote:
Originally Posted by AndersX
Hold your horses. Summer event is enough. Because nothing is better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tanelv
recce going on
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Does jyvaskyla have guaranteed snow at this time of year?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tanelv
NoQuote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
Unfortunately no 100%. Should be snow, but the amount can be very different year by year. + degrees are possible and if luck is not your side the hot temperature weekend might happen just then there would be rally. Maybe better, but almost like in Karlstad area.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
Well, it is only about having fun, is it not. Soon we will all be dead, so many of us need to be better in enjoying the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Logically he would have had more fun in a Rally2 or even a Rally3 car, that his brain could take in what happens.
But he is about my age, and he would utrun me any day of the week, as with most people in here....
With the demand from new countries to enter the championship, and teams wanting to explore new markets (without going over 14 events), maybe its time to look for an alternative to Sweden for good. They've been a cornerstone of the championship, but this current event isn't 'Rally Sweden' as we knew it.
Surely by 2025 when the current deal runs out, the promoter can find a new snow event in Canada etc. I know Canada currently has 2 winter rallies in their calendar currently. One at rhe start of February, the other the first week of December usually. Would kill 2 birds with one stone, branching into the North America Market and giving us a snow event that's vital to the championship. Maybe Japan has the possibility to host a snow rally as well somewhere?
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Originally Posted by Rallyest
I think this argument is irrelevant. Do all music critics sell more albums than the artists they give 1/5 ratings to? Same with movies?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
But still, if local rally privateers with old FWD cars are faster, it's fair to estimate that 90% of rally drivers would be faster with the same amount of kilometres.
Poor guy had his first snow rally. And those Otepää roads is not just easyest to begin with...
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by bandit12
Yes, in those dark times, maybe we should look on the bright side of life a little more...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
But only because you don't practice enough! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
Yes, there are corners, left and right, slow and fast. We can't blame him, it all took him by surprise :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bandit12
Poor guy took someone's free seat.. right :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
C'mon guys leave the old bloke alone now and get back to the Rally Sweden.
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Changing the subject, I'm looking to attend the Umea Sprint stage this Thursday, and I'd like to spectate the northern part of the SS, not in the Red Barn Arena. Does anyone know where to park and walk to see this part of the stage? Thanks a lot!
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Commercial success is only one way to measure the quality of a cultural product. In the end, there is no definitive way to say one movie is better than the other, etc. However, if we put two guys one at a time in the same car, set a stage and clock it, it's a definite way to measure which one is faster.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Do I understand the train of thought here correctly: Ongoing demand for new events > Rally Swedes practically becomes a new event > ditch it because it's not the old event.Quote:
Originally Posted by er88
So are you guys Wilson or Millener? Will Tänak be able to fight for win in Sweden or not? :D
Yeah, i think so.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyest
Rovanpëra and Evans too, close race all weekend i hope!
Neuville/Hyundai's is not close sadly.
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I want new sweden every year instead of uninterested rallies in Saudi Arabia and the other shit-countries with lot of money and zero of everything else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
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Rally Sweden becomes a new event > The new roads are not good > Demand for new snow rally which fits ongoing demand for new eventsQuote:
Originally Posted by Hartusvuori
I have to say it's nowadays impossible to predict which team/driver got the setup right or wrong and who can get the stage wins coming easily and who drives at 120% but still cannot win a stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by skarderud
I was not impressed by Tänak at Otepää. Or the Tänak/Puma combination. Something is visibly off looking at the cars behaviour and Tänak's input. The late stages during darkness again were more promising so maybe they finally found something. At the beginning of the rally it was very sluggish. Though he cleaned the roads as there was overnight snowfall and in the afternoon again started to snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by AnttiL
Different conditions and roads in Umea so again very hard to tell but I predict Toyota 1-2 with maybe Evans getting the win. For Tänak at best he fights for 3rd position.
That's my gut feeling and this what I have seen on stages so far.
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I'm too scared to pick Tänak in my predictions, the probability of a technical fault is too high
I think it was because of the fresh snow like you said.Quote:
Originally Posted by cali
The afternoon stages looked better and Martin said that the last two stages were already quite good and it seems they found something.
But we will see. Everything is possible
Expectations shouldn't be too high even for Tanak when coming in to a new car.
Remember Ogier took time to find the best set-up for the "great out of the box" 2017 Fiesta WRC. He only won 1 of the first 5 events and that was in Monte after Neuville's mistake. In fact he only won 2 events all year... but became Champion.
Yes i think also that consistency and reliabilty is key to Tänak this year, but as monte showed, that could be a little bit of a problem with PumaQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Dear Estonian fansQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallyest
You can't just move the discussion to Tänak in every topic. He has his own thread 😉
Yeah. And Serderidis deserves own thread as well, it seems...Quote:
Originally Posted by bandit12