Start list for tomorrow: http://www.adac-rallye-deutschland.d..._Section_4.pdf
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Start list for tomorrow: http://www.adac-rallye-deutschland.d..._Section_4.pdf
No PGA.
PG, Kremer and Žito. Photo by rallylife.czhttps://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...94708716_n.jpg
Could it be a wrong/late pacenote that caused Ogiers accident? While watching the footage, I noticed he was to wide on the left corner just before to take a decent line on the right corner. And he went in to fast...
Or was he to fast in the left corner, causing him to be on the grass and therefore not being able to slow the car down?
That was my feeling at first watch too. He is right the place was damp after the left at the breaking - if there was no note about that from the ice crew then it is fault of them ( I dont believe the ice crew not noticed it). But maybe the whole stage was damp during the ice crew review.Quote:
Originally Posted by dupanton
It is also possible that he was simple too quick then in the left the breakeing can not be enough agressive othervise he loose the grip already in the left.
He's a Pole, driving in Germany. More likely he had just stolen* the car, maybe broke the hatch in the process :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mihai
* they have this saying in Deutschland: "Vacation? Go to Poland; your car is already there" :D
He says it is missing note for a damp place on the left hander when he was braking, from the video it seems the car just went little wide and slided there, then went too straight in the right hander. Probably truth is somewhere in the middle and he was little too fast thereQuote:
Originally Posted by dupanton
Why strange? Even the best of them make mistakes sometimes. Loeb even :)Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Like Ogier said in some interview, maybe a mistake by gravel crew, but he said that in the end it was his mistake because he was the one driving. That comment just made me like him more!
So a little resume of today. We did 4 stages, 2x Mittelmosel + Grafshaft. We started off with the fast right corner with the huge bump in exit (see video of Campedelli I posted earlier). Again really impressive how stabile the WRC cars were, thanks to the long spring travel and the perfect weight balance. The back of DS3's was kicked in the air a lot, resulting in a crash for Campedelli and extreme moment for Cronin (hitting the wall even 100m behind the bump). With Campedelli it was a bit funny. He tried to start the engine again immediately, but some spectators went knocking on his window, to tell him some wheels were missing (one gone and another wheel with broken damper/mount... :D The second place we did was a jump in a corner (see photo of Brynildsen), really crazy how fast they took it. Al-Attiyah, Kosciuszko and Brynildsen hadn't the best line and went off a little (some 1m, just on the edge of the grapes), quite lucky there... On the first stage of second loop we went to a well known jump (see photo of Al-Attiyah, who did some strange move). Was nice to see the cars jumping just before braking hard into a junction left. On the 4th stage we went to a very fast left corner with cut, was nice too, especially the Fiesta R2s were impressive there.
About the drivers, both Neuville and Latvala are great, very clean but fast, how it should be. Sordo and Hirvonen look really good also, on stage, I don't know where they are losing their time. The difference is probably in the details... Ostberg is very disappointing to me, in the very fast situations (except for the jump in corner we did) he wasn't really "on it", the difference was visible, he didn't even look faster than Prokop to give an example. Al-Attiyah driving like a mad man, so did Kosciuszko, seen him twice, 2x crazy. Kubica looks good with the DS3, very clean, like expected in fact. Elfyn Evans is very impressive, he is very fast but relatively clean as well. Also Hayden Paddon was very impressive all the time. Wiegand disappointing IMO, also very little progression to where he was a year ago. The DS3's and Fiesta's are nice to watch, an extra value to the event for sure! The only thing I'm missing is some more private WRC cars... 10 years ago there were 30 cars, and private cars of almost every make, shouldn't FIA create a rule that persuades manufacturers to sell their WRC cars to privateers?
A couple of photos below, more on the facebook-page of rally-image (also open to people who aren't on facebook): https://www.facebook.com/pages/rally...76477852364109
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2x Stein & Wein + Panzerplatte on the shedule for tomorrow...
They are ready to battle with Jari-Matti :D
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