Wrc Rallye France-Alsace 2012

To me, SWRC is providing good indication of some young guys who we should hope to see moving up in the future... I like Paddon, met him before he'd won anything and seems like a really sensible driver - fast when he needs to be, takes it easy when there is nothing to gain. If he were British the UK press would be going bananas over him - just look at how Kris Meeke gets oversold and lionized!

Breen is fast too although he has that thing that plenty of Finnish drivers suffer from, that is, being much faster in your home country than other places.

Yazeed is OK, needs some improvement but has a realistic viewpoint... he said he has to be a top driver in the SWRC before moving to WRC. Doesn't want to be a Khalid Al Qassimi?

Novikovs moment from another angle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L72T2...yer_embedded#!

@Official_iRally: Mads Østberg 11:22.8 "Just not possible to go quicker with this car. As soon as it is uphill, they just pull away."

hmmmm...... Msport......?

Nasser's high speed crash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_im4bIuCHNQ

Here's Australian media coverage from Rally France - no mention of Petters name

https://twitter.com/skynewsozsport/s...42419868876801

seems like a crash or car fire is the only events to get a mention, hopefully Red Bull can change that next year

thanks sport + for doing a great job, and proving that it is not complicated to broadcast rally with a bit of motivation. But please next year get proper commentator, like julian porter and the irish dude... because the french dudes are a bit hopeless (except guy fraiklin). thomas senecal is the biggest joke on french tv, i don't think he even has a driving license, that tells you how good his knowledge is about motorsport...

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Originally Posted by OldF

Vurpan always mention the F-group or F-Cup with F-group cars. I don’t know but by the name Vurpan, maybe he used to drive whit the style like in the video. Eller hur?

III ValUA Talviralli, Valkeala (F-Cup) 3.3.2012 - YouTube

Btw Vurpan, can you guess which car was on the introduction page of 1970 of the 1970-1974 1000 lakes book I got this week?

F-Cup homepage:
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Homepage of Jent TV that’s as far as I know makes the F-Cup programs.
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The videos didn’t work on Google translated pages so it’s better to watch them here.
Jent Motorsport Video - Netti-TV

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Joooo men you know i like languages and names and have been callled all sorts of names inside the family and by all those crazy latinos in my family (OK I was born "John" but to my mom was the deminutive for Juan which is "Juanito", her brother came up to USa and I was "Pineapple" to him, Johnny to my father's family, then I had the bright idea to move to Sweden when I was 17. In Swedish industri in those days it was maybe 75% foreigners---and 40% Finns, lots of Jugoslavians and nobody called be "John", it was Jon or Jan, or something) well I moved to learn moto-cross and when you are trying to learn and try things---and are young ad stupid, you crash a lot---or you stay slow... so naturally if they can't say John the didn't even try vanLandingham---so it was either Johnny Crash, they could say that correctly, but Jan van Vurpa became the name....
When I was based in France doing International events I was finally "Johnny" except to my Italian and Slovenian friends--it was Gianni.. Now when I go to China its Zhang Wei Han, Zhang sounds a lot like John and its also wifey dear's family name..

This fun with names continues with my 2 little girls Anna (7 1/2) and Natasha (5 1/2) who to me are Anoushka and Ninotchka, or Yang-yang and Yue Yue when in China...both speak English, Putonghua (mandarin) and are learning Spanish..

Since you Finns are the indisputable nation producing the most true rally gods and have such great rallies, we Gringos---anybody with brains--and humor---idealize and imagine everything crazy about Finland---and since 1984 when I started, I am the offical "Bestower of Finnish names".. for example the guy I have co-drive for a couple of times in his nice 240 Volvo is Al Kun--his honorary Finn name is Alperti Kunkanen. Dave Clark in his--the ONLY Ascona B in USA, became Doivi Clarkalainenen.

Now what car could be on the cover??

Was it made in Trollhättan by Trolls?

Is it a car I could rebuild the gearbox and build the "värsta sortens" motor for with the parts I have on the shelf?

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Originally Posted by kirungi okwogera

To me, SWRC is providing good indication of some young guys who we should hope to see moving up in the future... I like Paddon, met him before he'd won anything and seems like a really sensible driver - fast when he needs to be, takes it easy when there is nothing to gain. If he were British the UK press would be going bananas over him - just look at how Kris Meeke gets oversold and lionized!

Breen is fast too although he has that thing that plenty of Finnish drivers suffer from, that is, being much faster in your home country than other places.

Yazeed is OK, needs some improvement but has a realistic viewpoint... he said he has to be a top driver in the SWRC before moving to WRC. Doesn't want to be a Khalid Al Qassimi?

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Agree. I actually like PG more than Hayden (I've been following him way longer) but In france PG has really disappointed me...

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Originally Posted by Astro83

Sean: How big is the rallysport in the states if you think of all the motorsports, Nascar-Indy-Motorcross and so on??? I have always wonder...

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I live in the US, so here is my perspective.

I've got a couple people interested in Rallying since i am living here (1998). However they are not following it much.
There is only one person i met in the USA that knew about Rallying. However he had spent one year in Finland for a student exchange program and that where he got interested in it.

The WRC is basically nonexistent here. Speed TV finally resumed airing the WRC this year. But still it is not catching up. Americans want something different and not a 3 day event that is based on a time trial: it needs to be fast and wrapped up in a few hours event where the winner is the one that cross the finish line first.


PS: posting here reminded me to schedule the recording of the WRC broadcast. Funny enough the guide is showing "FIA World Rally - France (Corsica)"

If anything, Rallycross will be the "rally discipline" which gets going in the US. Easier for our fat asses to attend, keeps our shallow attention spans in check, and allows us to gobble up commercial marketing. And I love it!

Oddly enough, when I was going to the Rally America event in Portland this summer, i was fueling up in my hometown and the clerk actually knew about the event that weekend. I was like wtf, haha.