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Only 20 crews instead of 40 started?

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Originally Posted by BleAivano

Not disappointing at all. The car is new to her and she have not been able to test it properly yet.
So it will take some time for her to get used to the car. I think this was only the 2nd time she drove the car.
So did the right by not risking anything in her first race with the new car.

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No, it is dissapointing, if you're good at driving, and you have a good car, you give everything, and she had some testing with the car. So, in my opinion, this is again one of the cases where ambitions exceed substance. And believe me, I have nothing against women in rallying, or racing in general.

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Originally Posted by mm1

No, it is dissapointing, if you're good at driving, and you have a good car, you give everything, and
she had some testing with the car. So, in my opinion, this is again one of the cases where ambitions exceed substance. And believe me,
I have nothing against women in rallying, or racing in general.

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Nah she did one short test the other day but she was not able to test hardly anything because of some issue with the gearbox.
They had planned to to do Finnskogsvalsen but the mentioned gearbox problems put a halt to that.
And a new car is a new car. Especially if you don't have experience in WRC cars.

I don't think you realize the big differences between driving a Lancer Evo X grp N which is
larger/heavier with less power compared to a Fabia WRC which is smaller, lighter and with much more power.

She also have not done a winter rally in almost two years.

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Originally Posted by tolis

Only 20 crews instead of 40 started?

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No, 10 best crews in each class (2WD and 4WD) got to final third round out of 40 crews together.

Thanks Per! Were there co-drivers?

Jepp, like ordinary rallies. Summary from Tractive Wintersprint on this link:

SM-veckan: Rally - 26/1 14:25 | SVT Play

Pedro Meireles had bought one Skoda Fabia S2000 from Skoda Motorsport Italia to run on Portuguese Championship

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first round of the Swedish Rally Championship this weekend at Sandviken.

Tv4 own the rights to the Championship but will not bother with any live coverage what so ever.
They probably occupied showing endless re-runs of Road Wars.

Anyway more info here:

http://www.vinterpokalen.com/
http://www.resultatservice.com/resse...aceNbr=2013002

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Originally Posted by Andre Oliveira

Pedro Meireles had bought one Skoda Fabia S2000 from Skoda Motorsport Italia to run on Portuguese Championship

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Looking good...

As it was shortly mentioned in different topic:
Deividas Jocius won Halls Winter Rally, first round of Lithuanian Rally Champs held in great snowy conditions in Utena. There was great fight for the win as after 112 stage kms top three was separated by only 7,4sec. Second was Butvilas (+1,1s), third Svedas (+7,4s). It was very nice event, choosen also by some crews as test before ERC round in Latvia held week later.