Toyota only has to make the Yaris more durable and a bit more reliable during the winter. Unless they majorly screw up, both championships should be theirs next year.
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Toyota only has to make the Yaris more durable and a bit more reliable during the winter. Unless they majorly screw up, both championships should be theirs next year.
You think the others sleep during the winter like bears? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
Ford will be composed by young drivers, so unless one of them has a break out season, they will not be in contention for any championship. I doubt that even Ogier can mount a year long championship challenge in the C3. And Hyundai seems to find more and ways of shooting themselves on the foot.
Neuville and Hyundai were seemingly in this position 12 months ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
As Tanak said himself you can never rely on having a chance next year. Things can chance a lot.
I hope the cars next year as even as possible, cause I really fear another one-manu domination. Realistically Citroen should be up there and comparable to Toyota. Hyundai very unlikely on all surfaces but on rough gravel they should still be up as well.
Agree with you about Ford, though we still dunno the drivers.
Interview with Ott https://www.motorsport.com/wrc/video...-tanak/378038/
Ott and Martin talking about their first season at Toyota https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F2quHG4Bi8&t=
Santa-Ott
There’s a documentary movie about Ott coming out In spring
Here is the first trailer https://www.facebook.com/14058374270...9794477119612/
Estonian do like their rally drivers. And cant blame them Tanak has been magnificent.
Before when he was not so successful they called him Ditch-Ott (Kraavi Ott). Now they love him. Suddenly with success he is one of the nations biggest and brightest star. Quite typical.Quote:
Originally Posted by able1
Real fans have always kept the faith in him.
But rallying news are nowadays everywhere you look at. It's quite huge in here at the moment, maybe even bigger than in Märtin days.
Because the online media was in it's infancy thenQuote:
Originally Posted by cali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z5mwq1NwDY
second trailer of Tänak movie if anyone is interested
Still early days in 2019 but he's already hit the top spot.
The way he's been performing since mid-2018 it's looking like only car failures can stop him this year. And I'm sure Toyota will have addressed the previous issues so that's unlikely.
Well. season just started. He is looking fast as always, but it's still too early to crown somebody.
His confidence is very high at the minute, to win the PowerStage in Sweden was mighty impressive too. He's got to be favourite this year coming off the back of last year and his start to this season.
Though it's not been a long time since Turkey, it feels somewhat strange that this was his first victory since then. Such has been the dominance out on the stages which has gone unrewarded.
Will be interesting to see what he can achieve from first on the road in Mexico.
As I said, he was fastest since mid-2018 but mostly denied wins by car faults.
However it might be argued some of these may have been caused by his driving lines (not avoiding rocks etc).
We'll see as the year goes on if this changes and he becomes more points-orientated like Ogier.
I think he partly showed that in Sweden already. After Suninen dropped he slowed down and kept it safe. Something he seemingly never did last year even with big lead.
Similar progress like Neuville from 2017 to 2018.
He still blitzed the PS in Sweden which may be risky if he does the same on other events...
i'm not sure i'd say he was taking unnecessary risks in the PS or throughout the Swedish rally..it just flowed for him. I think sometimes these drivers get into "the rhythm" as they put it and become one with the car they drive ---like Ogier/polo, Tanak/Yaris, Neuville/i20, Loeb/Xsara/DS3, Marcus/Focus, Tommi/evo, etc. When they reach that level, they can be close to or on the limit without really going over it, they make it look easy what they do and are in full control on certain rallies.
Each rally will have to be taken on its own merit, but if these drivers feel confident, then they will try to maximize their points while they can, as there will always be those rallies where negative things will happen (driver errors, car breaking, flats,etc.), some of which will be out of their control.
As mentioned above, it will be interesting to see how he deals with being first on the road as it will be the first time? Not sure he has the patience yet, what comes to mind is sweden last year when he bumped into meeke, which to me looked like a frustrated / upset side of Tanak.
I think Turkey showed his ability to be patient.Quote:
Originally Posted by spiderem
i like this photo
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0BLufTWsAYTeqY.jpg
Colin about Ott
https://www.facebook.com/29667869716...3154271180568/
Tanak's time has come. I agree with Clark. No matter how good Ogier is, he can't do it this time.
It's fun to make predictions. But in rally, things can change really fast.
Last year after Mexico and Corsica, Ogier seemed unbeatable. Just 4 months later after Turkey, he looked least likely of the 3 to win the title.
Tänak is undoubtedly the biggest favourite atm, but still I would not bet any big money on him.
It's not prediction.
its too early to make any kind of predictions, we have just had only 2 rallies.
Last year there were same kind of predictions after he won argentina, and we all know how it went after that with basically 2 zero points rallies.
It's only one Colin. McRae. Next time add Clark :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
Very well said! I, as a driver, can confirm, that when you are "in the zone" - you perform at your best without taking big risks, because you are fully concentrated. And actually it's vise versa if you try to slow down, your concentration drops and then mistakes happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by gorganl2000
where it all started, already back then wearing racing overalls :p
https://scontent.fhen1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...da&oe=5D1672E6
source https://www.facebook.com/otttanakmov...type=3&theater
third and final trailer, less than a week left, cant wait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LLbOU4lkl4
there was an interview with the film makers on our rally podcast show this week
- the movie will be 2 hours and 16 minutes long
- 5 hours of material was left out
- all the people are saying Markko doesnt speak much but the interview with Markko alone is 2 and half hours
- they followed him basically everywhere, travelled for 160-170 days
- the most surprising for them was how much work the drivers really do before and after the rally
The cows footage was spliced in the trailer in a somewhat deceiving way, because that's actually from Ogier's onboard from 2016:).
That`s how trailers look like, Ogier and others probably have their part in the movie also.
Yeah, I assume in the movie it will have a correct context, but the trailer puts the footage together in a weird way suggesting it way Ott who skillfully dodged the cows.
Frankly, the idea of the Tanak focused movie seems to me a bit weird at this stage of his career.
Well, money is money.
estonia is a ~1 million country... how many countries with 1 million you know that have an athlete with a realistic chance at a world title ?Quote:
Originally Posted by USER47
its normal to be big deal to them.
I am estonian and TBH i was also surprised when i heard about this movie. Perhaps few years too early... After 1st title maybe. Or at the end of career. But i will go and see it anyway. BTW - we have few more world class athletes who occasionally challenge some titles. Some in athletics, also in fencing, in other motor sports (speedboad racing), one in weightlifting etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
But think about last season. It would have been a miracle like ending to the movie if Ott had won the championship. So in that sense it was perfect timing for filming.
Yeah, I think that might be the reason why last year Ott was saying that we might never have a chance like that again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oliverk
so, since its so quiet in this forum i thought ill write a little review about the movie.
It was a good one, not saying its the best, very good or something like that but a good one. Since ive been following him so closely there wasnt much new to me. A lot of emotions of course, but also very very good jokes which got the whole audience laughing. A lot of reviews are sayin its too long but for me it was actually half an hour too short. I like how they have edited it, basically it shows his 2018 season mixed with how he started and how he reached the top etc. Not this typical build up with starting with his childhood and then on etc. The best parts for me were Latvala and Ott's grandmother. She follows every rally, even the oversea ones, writes down the times and she knew on what tyres everyone was on and her comments were so funny.
Of course some old wounds were also torn off, like Poland 2016 and Wales 2018. Especially Wales 2018 was very hard to watch again for me, although Martin says in the movie that for him Spain was the hardest one.
Im definitely going to watch it again in a few weeks and I recommend it to everyone here if it goes available outside Estonia some time. i know they are working on it.
heres a interview with David Evans from last week before the movie https://www.facebook.com/AUTOSPORT/v...I1Mjg3MTM2MzQ/