But then comes Super Sunday. And turns points up and down. We´ll wait until Sunday afternoon and the scorings...Quote:
Originally Posted by focus206
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But then comes Super Sunday. And turns points up and down. We´ll wait until Sunday afternoon and the scorings...Quote:
Originally Posted by focus206
How do you lot like these roads? I've only seen one stage today, can't say I was impressed.
was looking about tomorrow's stages.. and afternoon loop is a funny :D only 32km
Seems quite boring, but as for the drivers they are probably nice…
I’d say Rally Finland stages are much more demanding.
Admittedly I am more of a tarmac fan, but I didn't think it was so great for a gravel rally.Quote:
Originally Posted by becher
Pretty boring with so many chicanes and anticuts. Dont understand why they have to use them so much. Average speed is only 115kmh with fastest stage at 125kmh.
Let’s see if the Hyundais can find something now after a day full of data. They were clearly struggling today IMO.
Wanna see the Tänak we have see on fast rallies.
Might be a Latvian rule that 120 is the maximum average.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
So, no discussions after all the "talks" by drivers yesterday? Neuville talk about part-time drivers and advantages made some sparks, Tones are up compare to regular complaints. also, in the Dirtfish mid-day cut Fourmaux says that Sesks is not sharing info as much as he does...interesting and unusual comment. We are getting some "live" action.
Typical Neuville. If the rules are against him, then he is always quite vocal about if. In Poland it was the same until Sunday, when Tänak was able to show better times with the same starting position.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndersX
If someone doesn’t know what you’re talking aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by AndersX
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/toyot...oad-order-ire/
Weird that we havent seen someone off or even with a proper mistake
Told ya.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Still amazed by Ogier so far. We know he wasn’t the best on fast rallies and he hasn’t done one for ages but very good stage times so far.
Maybe ot:
The hybrit seems not to have contributed anything for the sport.
Can you put it this way: the hybrit unit addition was a total failure for the WRC?
Of course you can but is it true? And how does one define "failure"? If it kept one manufacturer in, as I've heard, it hardly is a failure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
But still you need to have two thoughts in mind at the same time. I was talking about technical contribution. Sesks speed shows there´s no need for hybrit.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Or what more gizmos needs to be invented to keep manufacturers to the WRC?
Kalle very fast at 1st stage of the day.
That's somewhat pointless discussion if it's true that hybrid was added not for technological but sporting and image reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Why are people still wondering about that? It was even stated directly when they started using them.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Hybrid was not added to make the car faster and more precisely the hybrid rules were made specifically to make the car behavior as similar as a non-hybrid rally car.
But that should not confused with a hybrid solution not being able to make the car faster. Even with the current one they could just remove the artificial "energy use" limits per stage or the regen/boost criteria.
In these fast rallies the hybrid's effect is lower but in other rallies we can see all over again that non working hybrid costs 5-7 seconds per stage.
Exactly. Especially on slow tarmac and even on slow gravelQuote:
Originally Posted by Dontcut
Whatever. I just throwed in a torch to get people going on this forum... :) ;)
Saturday points locked after SS15? as last stage is super special(SSS16)..?
Running order for next Day is locked before SSS but saturday points are based on classification after final stage, including penalties accrued.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
Fourmaux, the loss is coming because today the starting position is more equal now
Pajari is gaining on second place in WRC2, and I'm hoping he'll bag that today, but it's a long way to Solberg after that.
Maybe Evans could gain a place if Fourmaux stays off the boil.
Sesks vs Ogier looks interesting(!).
Tanak doing pretty OK for the circumstances.
Difficult rally for Neuville. But I think of all the times he benefitted from Ogier opening the road over the years, and I shrug.
Rovanpera is the boss.
No torch here, but using same stages or parts of them over and over again ( more than two times), isn´t that making it even more boring...?
Good for spectators live, but...
Repeated stages makes it significantly easier for the organisers, they need to find and close less roads and need fewer marshals (latter is important in rallies where marshals are volunteers and in short supply, like in Finland). Also competitors need less recce but suffer from broken up roads on re-runs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Tänak saying after the stage end that brakes again starting to go and says “how can it be so bad/weak”
why sesks not as fast as yesterday what happened, because of the Ford?
He no longer has road position advantage he used to have, with more even situation the more experienced drivers with better cars are faster.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1988senna
He yesterday told to Estonian media the brake pads are weak. He yesterday was able to change them on only one side.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Ogier lucky once again :D
Finally someone made a mistake
For sure. I understand why, but doesn´t it make the event much more boring?Quote:
Originally Posted by jonkka
Will Tanak catch 2nd place?
Potentially yes, depends on nature of the roads.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
I also forgot to mention that the driver who's gotta sweep the road clean will appreciate the repeated stages too.
I hope so, but 3rd place seems to be more realistic.Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
Not so sure about that either. Not so many kms leftQuote:
Originally Posted by trykmann