Also what an impact for Fourmaux!
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Also what an impact for Fourmaux!
Yeah we can see Fourmaux's 'had a moment' there.
Pretty wild looking car, no door and panels off.
This is DSQ for Fourmaux
That's it for Fourmaux
Stage win for Tänak. Canary remains the only
Round where he didn’t get a stage win
Crazy stage. Ogier also was in full work mode
Horrible final part of the stage by Evans.
Yeah, I was expecting him to be quite close to Ogier or even taking the lead. But Fourmax's debris spoiled that...Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
Fourmaux form hero to zero like often with him
He has to iron out these mistakes for next year finally
❌ Adrien Fourmaux and Alex Coria have been forced to retire, with the damage sustained in an off on Sunday's first stage causing too much damage to safely continue.
Shame for Adrien. He was pushing 110% the whole rally, as he said.
What did Tanak say? Did he say Hankook or the wet tyre not good enough for rally cars?
If it finishes like this, it'll be Pajari's first podium finish.
On previous he said that Hankook wet tire is quite ok but now he hit something that with recce tire was ok but not with rally tire. Nothing bad, just explaining the situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCStan
Entertaining SS once again in Japan
Absoulte dog shit coverage
Not that it matters any more but Hyundai won't score single point with both Neuville and Fourmaux out and Tanak not nominated.
Hahaa..
Andrew ,,everything is fantastic'' Wheatley :D
Good PR talk tho.. :D
Akmost as funny as Latvala in Finland at last year's finish, when he finished 2nd in wrc2, but Kalle just crashed out from 1st and Evans earlier..
I think this is the first rally in I don’t know how long I haven’t bothered staying up for…if it’s the fact we have no night stages, terrible coverage or the fact it’s a Toyota win whoever crashes….although that mirrors more Hyundai season from hell than anything else…I really do hope they sort their sh*t together for ‘26 or it’s more than likely we won’t see them for ‘27….oh well, at least Lancia (& with some luck Dacia?) will be there for ‘27…as for the rally itself…I think enough has been said around here….imho, more than enough tarmac rounds to replace this one….
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Tänak Ott
Järveoja Martin
"It is been tough weekend for us. Today morning we changed rear differential and the car came back to normal. Frustrating event for us."
Sums up his season really…Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
I don’t know, how come they didn’t notice the previous days that there is something wrong with it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
It’s a miracle that Tänak was in the title fight as long as he was with this car this season and that he is pretty equal with stage wins also with Kalle and Ogier
This Neuville & Hyundai cameo in this Japan Rally must go down as Rally heritage. I mean how is this possible on that level. From the first day on these R1 cars they have this windscreen misting up problem and they still havent resolved it!?
On the other note, Evans showed real composure this rally and deserves WDC
Also no timecard. Why do they keep the timecard on the door where it can fly away even after a small roll? I remember having a pocket in my overall just for timecard for it not get lost in the event of a roll etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by paddocknews
provisional points
Elfyn - 272
Seb -269
Kalle - 248
Ott - 213
so basically a 2020/2021 fight between Evans & Ogier only this time on the gravel.
Coming in to this forum I find a remarkable low-voiced disinterest of the outcome. Like me I suppose almost every fan in Europe was sleeping during the final day and PS.
Underperforming teams and drivers from here and there made Rally Japan a sleeper...
Let´s hope there be interesting news tomorrow from Toyota.
Well, I got what I wanted at the start of the year: Evans beat Neuville and Fourmaux over the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Humber
People have said Saudi will be a cleaning rally, which I would say makes Ogier the favourite in WDC, but I live in hope.
I assure you, I was very interested in the outcome. Didn't quite get what I hoped for, but not bad...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
I mean the aftermath of the rally seems not concern many.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morte66
Except Fourmaux crashing, there wasn't much to be exited about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
As expected, Kalle nowhere near taking Sunday points away from Ogier and Evans. Wasn't even able to catch Munster. Time to go racing in circuits...
Breaking news! Ott just announced that he will retire as a full part driver.
This really was crazy three of the four world champions checked out.Quote:
Originally Posted by focus206
I think they're all busy in the silly season thread. And maybe the ones who were really excited and stayed up to watch are getting some sleep. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
When Fourmaux arrived at the finish, his car looked reasonably OK, and then the cameraman walked around to the other side of it, and... ...oh my.
I listen to it all except the two SSS stages. An amazing battle by the Top 2 in the rain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Ogier pipped Evans here to take the Championship down to Saudi Arabia. What else is there to say ?
You could already see Coria's door wasnt there from the onboard...Quote:
Originally Posted by Morte66
Let's hope Hyundai can continue with a full part car.Quote:
Originally Posted by linni