Thanks for sharing the video, you attended a lot of different spots! Hasn't the guy at 9:55 heard of the GoPro camera?
What is the spectating point at 2:30? Te Akau Coast?
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Thanks for sharing the video, you attended a lot of different spots! Hasn't the guy at 9:55 heard of the GoPro camera?
What is the spectating point at 2:30? Te Akau Coast?
Thanks for that, there was one other spot but it wasn't very good. We are still learning with the GoPro footage, next event it should turn out better. I think it was the "north" stage on the Friday afternoon. Was pretty sick, so fast!
Was an interesting decision to pop his head over the bridge.. He'd still be in jail if it was Aus but!
Soo beautiful roads...Quote:
Originally Posted by darkstar
Yes they are. But over on our little North American forum there's a little debate going wether NZ or Finland hasQuote:
Originally Posted by Mirek
THE BEST roads in the world.
And NZer has come and said, with I don't know if he's being 100% serious, that NZ roads are the best in the whole world, I put up some of the videos from our Finnish boys at VW testing a few days ago and am saying, with tongue in cheek THE BEST roads in the world, real "Ralli Paradis".
But I doooo very much like the EVENT. In NZeven if there's not even 1/10 the hotties spectating per hectare in NZ as in Finland.
I was thinking and I came to it.. I'm a driver, or was so to a simple minded driver----was that redundant?---I look at the roads and the ROADS in Finland draw me, challenge my imagination, they CALL me!
And the setting for those Finnish roads is very nice too, sometimes pretty---for me having lived so long next door with same forests, lots of lakes, same soil, red cabins ,it makes me in very oddly "home sick".
The setting for NZ roads is very pretty in the "pretty farm-y setting" way.
I wonder if people separate the roads for the setting like I know I'm doing?
From Paddon's onboard it seems that speed is lower then in Finland but great road it is.
Holder Brothers Racing, Rally Otago 2012 - YouTube
If I have copied the this link correctly it will take you to a stage on the Otago Rally which is round of the NZ Championship. The stage is called Golden Bar is 30km long and this is the 2nd time that this stage has been run as part of this event and first time that the Holder Brothers in their 1600CC Toyota Corolla have undertaken this stage.
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Originally Posted by Carlo
YIKES!!!!!
Scary fast.
Thank goodness no trees, eh?
Looks like the stage---and the terrain we have here in Eastern Washington and Oregon. Or in Canada
800 6R......700 5L....1000 6L---800 5L
Where we have guys in low spec, barely warmed over, maybe 125 hp cars averaging 130km/hr..
oi, oi oi.....
Not far in from the start you can see the championship leading car a the time a rolled up ball of metal after it went off a brow at around 178kph and caught the watertable then rolled about 200 metres down the road. The car pulled 6g during the accident . Most of the stage is 4 to 6 in the calls. Jemba notes suppied and one pass recce. Young David Holder who was driving looks like that he will be our next Hayden or Possum. He sure knows the meaning of the word committment.Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
Rally NZ DOES have the best roads on the Planet, don't get me wrong the jumps in Finland are mega, but the roads do rut up and you have the trees to contend with. If you think I'm wrong ask mikko hirvonen
Personally, from my limited experience, I think the roads in Finland are the best, just because of the jumps :) .
I normally tell people NZ has the best roads in the world and that Finland is like heaven. From a spectating point of view NZ is amazing because you can see the cars for kms, while Finland has the amazing atmosphere and all the crazy Finnish fans.