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Do it old school people. One drives and the person sitting on the next seat reads a map. Works kind of like a GPS. Giving instructions and stuff ;)
OK that was a joke. No harm meant. But think how easy it nowadays that the biggest nuisance is to set up waypoints before driving/walking to the desired corner on the stage. And with the modern GPS phones you can check your location when walking on a stage.
Presuming of course that you have someone to read a map for you, otherwise you have to stop and check it yourself ;)
While visiting rallies I like to do it with my children..
GPS in connected with laptop and the route is marked on the map. So, I usually drive while I read map and thanks to the bigger screen that laptop has.. it is quite comfortable:-) Usually when I take someone to read my map they are always late to call junctions etc.
Maybe it is so, because I work with the maps every day and last time we drove to Portugal I was reading the map during the whole 4200km and we didn't got lost not a single time :-)
Edit: And I forgot the write the reason why I wrote it. There was quite a big accident in Latvia a few years ago when one spectator decided to stop for a moment to check the map and there was Estonian rally driver Popov with his evo 6 behind him and could not see the car stopping due to the dust and... Bang!! It was quite a big accident. I dont remember anyone getting hurt but the rally was over for Evo6 and Popov.
So, be careful while stopping.
What can we expect in terms of entries??
WRC
Citroen
Loeb
Sordo
Ogier
Raikkonen
P. Solberg.
Ford
Hirvonen
Latvala
H. Solberg
Wilson
Subaru
Ostberg
SWRC
SKODA
Sandell
Andersson
Please fill in :D
WRC
1. Loeb C4WRC
2. Sordo C4WRC
3. Hirvonen Focus WRC
4. Latvala Focus WRC
5. Wilson Focus WRC
6. Räikkönen C4WRC
7. Ogier C4WRC
8. Solberg P C4WRC
9. Ostberg Subaru WRC
10. Qassimi Focus WRC
SWRC
1. Tuohino Ford
2. Prokop Ford
3. Al Attyah Ford
4. Sandell Skoda
5. Kocziusko Ford
6. Llovera A. Skoda
7. Ketomaa, J. Ford
8. Andersson Skoda
PWRC
1. Semerad, M Mitsu
2. Baldoni Subaru
3. Frisiero Mitsu
4. Nobre, P.Mitsu
5. Muhonen, R. Mitsu
6. Wang Rui Mitsu
7. Gröndal, A. Subaru
8. Flodin Subaru
9. Pavlides, S Subaru
10. Jourdain, M. Mitsu
11. Tänak Mitsu
12. Paddon Mitsu
13. Raschi Mitsu
14. Horsey Mitsu
15. Georgiou, N Mitsu
Other:
1. Kresta Mitsu
2. Hänninen Skoda?
3. Kaur, E. Subaru????
And a lot of others finnish Gr N drivers :-)
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Originally Posted by bluuford
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Any more privateers in WRC??
And what about Kankkunen ;)
Yes and yes :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bluuford
We should add in the list Jaakko Tapper with a Seat Leon 2.0TDi FR and maybe Michael Honda (CZ-Citroen C2 S1600) and Radik Shaymiev (RUS-Peugeot 207 S2000).
Michael Honda? Maybe, but I don't see it very likely. If he drives than for sure not with C2 S1600.
He is entered with C2 S1600 for rally Estonia. http://autosport.ee/rallyreg/?page=2...=80&lang_id=2& Maybe testing for Finland? or just having fun :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze