I don't really get why there are only 11 participants. Every year we hear about 'overwhelming interest' etc. for the Dmack series yet now again I was hoping for more. Curious to see what Van den Brand is capable of though.
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I don't really get why there are only 11 participants. Every year we hear about 'overwhelming interest' etc. for the Dmack series yet now again I was hoping for more. Curious to see what Van den Brand is capable of though.
What are they supposed to say?Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
hell this last weekend we had a "National" just down in Oregon. Higgins, Dave was there set to wind the whatever win in a row--no competition at all---and the announcer on the "Rally Radio" begins with "Here we are today with some of the BEST DRIVERS IN THE WORLD...."
Aside from Higgins there isn't a one who could get out of the bottom 1/3 in a British Clubbie event...
They just all talk hype because they know nobody is listening...
Diggins must be getting pretty bored out there by now. However, he is getting paid to drive so I doubt he's complaining.Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
The events themselves look cracking, nice fast stages, plenty of mileage etc. They probably warrant a chance in the WRC, but would it be supported well enough by the local communities / fans (if there are any?). I'd definitely hop over the pond for a New England WRC :)
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Originally Posted by Doon
Yeah I guess cruising around winning without effort is plastered over with money..Cures a lot I guess..
The terrain here is good to great, the local organisers enthusiastic, but the competition is really really thin..and I am straining to be as diplomatic as I can...
What does it say if guys with ZERO prior rally experience can buy a Subaru, spend 70k and instantly be doing top 3-4 SS times...?
Either that guy is an undiscovered GENIUS! or the field is er um er shall we say "thin"...
I won't see it has to be seen to belived, but its close.. 8-9 years into doing rally here i went to some BTRDA evens 'up norf" and I was flat shocked at the driving and aggressiveness...those guys were hammering the cars. It was great fun watchin--and i ain't a good speccie...
Then I was in Sweden weeks later--and since--where I'd lived in the 70s---but in moto-cross, not rally and I was again even more shocked--RELATIVE to what we were then doing in our US "Nationals"..
Looks on film...deceptive and subject to "editing"...
Not to say a lotta guys aren't having fun.
rather standings full of mistakesQuote:
Originally Posted by jbmarcus21
also very unpleasant for eyes
do it properly or stop posting
mistakes ?Quote:
Originally Posted by moto99
I see you can't count too
I see only two mistakes there. Tänak got 1 point in Argentina and Villagra 0. Villagra was driving car with National homologation (RC2N), these are shown in general classification but they are not able to collect points.Quote:
Originally Posted by N.O.T
can you point them out ?Quote:
Originally Posted by moto99
Off topic but,Quote:
Originally Posted by janvanvurpa
Firar du ännu valborgsmässoafton what you probably did when you lived in Sweden? Lot of balloons, girls, beer, bubbling wine and fun.:) :beer::bounce::monkeedan
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valborgsm%C3%A4ssoafton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
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Originally Posted by OldF
Nej inte längre...men det var mycket skoj på den tiden.. en Valborgmässoafton i 1972 ledde direkt till första avioliitto i '73
And alone among the industrialised coutries of the world, 1:a Maj is just another day, but in my house we have great music...We begin the day with The Internationale and go on the musik from than man from Gävle, Joseph Hällström, know to history as Joe Hill, a immigrant like millions of others who worked in the West in mines and wrote a great many songs for the International Workers of the World, the IWW....
here's a link to my favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8qoB1XwtHM
Great songs he wrote till he was framed by the Stae of utah, and shot after a lousy trial.
what WRC needs is tougher events - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118781
new DS3Wrc design and livery
http://planetemarcus.com/nouvelle-ds...itroen-racing/
It is good they have put their proper name up... Abu dhabi racing.
“Citroën Racing hasn’t stopped working on the development of DS 3 WRC since the current regulations were introduced in 2011,” reiterated Yves Matton, Citroën Racing Team Principal.
To supplement start of the season upgrades, a second phase will bring a new front end to the DS3. A redesigned bumper and wings are aimed at lowering drag and increasing downforce.
“If you take the new features unveiled in January and this second batch, this is the most significant upgrade since the DS3 WRC was first homologated,” said Citroën Racing team principal Yves Matton.
“The aerodynamic upgrades introduced here should help us to keep improving. Confirmed during wind tunnel and pre-event testing, the gains achieved in terms of drag coefficient and downforce are significant,” he added.
Citroën is planning to introduce a third and final evolution before the end of the season but the timing has yet to be decided. That evolution will focus on the suspension and geometry.
Abbring will do at least 4 rallies this year he mentioned on an interview on Dutch radio today.
Next one will be known next week. Probably Italy or Poland than I think.
Abbring will have at least 4 more starts this year.
The next one will be on gravel in an event he has good memories of. So probably Poland since he took his first JWRC win there.
VW identify engine fault from Rally Argentina ... normal service should be resumed in Portugal... :rolleyes:
'Analysis of their Polo R’s engines at the squad’s Wolfsburg base in Germany revealed both suffered a fault in one injector, meaning the cylinder to which it was connected received too much fuel.
The increase in consumption led to Ogier stopping after 45km of the opening leg’s stage from Agua de Oro to Ascochinga. Latvala retired from third place during the first pass through the final day’s El Condor test.
Engine development head Dr Donatus Wichelhaus said the parts were investigated with the help of the technical development department’s central laboratory.
“It turns out that part of the fuel injector broke whilst the cars were running. The broken fragments blocked the mechanism of the fuel injector, thus preventing it from working properly,” he added.
Volkswagen said a different specification Bosch fuel injector would be used from Vodafone Rally de Portugal (21 - 24 May) onwards. The injector is a homologated part, so the update will require the use of one of the team’s allocated ‘jokers’.'
Abbring raced in the JWRC in Sardinia ... it would be interesting to see 4 Hyundai I20 WRC ... because this year will be a tough rally
Google Earth Map Rally Italia Sardegna is online http://planetemarcus.com/saison-wrc/...e-italie-2015/
Abbring will compete in Poland, Germany, France and Wales.
Given I'll be at two of them I'm happy with that programme for Abbring. Will be interesting to see how he goes.
Fingers crossed for Abbring. I think he can achieve something in future but he must do good in these rallies.
http://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/20...16-wrc-season/
First taste of 2016.
Australia confirmed, so I guess that's NZ still out.
If they're bringing in at least one new event and keeping the same number, I guess that means that France, GB, Germany or Portugal out....
“We also have exciting proposals on the table from countries not currently on the calendar and discussions have started with a view to bringing at least one, and perhaps two, of those events onto next year’s calendar."... Hoping for Acropolis and New-Zealand. :)
A pity NZ still out, the agreement between Australia and NZ to alternate their rally was fair for me, but it seems Australia has more friends.
Glad to see my Sardinia confirmed. Every year we say it's the last year but then it is still there.
Wondering who will be the new rounds. They talked about China coming in 2016, let's see. I think that the one that will lose his spot will be France or Portugal.
Think it will be France. This years rally at Corse is probably just a one off. France has Monte too.
Ideally France should have a spot, even if ther is Monte. It's the land where were born the world champions of the last 11 years, soon 12, and a country where rally has an important role. But I think FIA is not happy about how things has been made this year with the Rallye de Corse and the abandon of Alsace. Not to say that they don't like islands rallys.
I'm amazed by how much pressure some of you guys put on the young or inexperienced drivers when you consider how much time and patience guys like Hirvonen and Latvala were given.Quote:
Originally Posted by focus206
Much prefer NZ than Australia!!!!!
This sucks.
He doesn't have to convince ME. He has to convince manufacturers, and we all know they don't have much patience if drivers don't bring $$$. You think he'd receive many other chances if he would crash out in 3 of those remaining events?Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
I think of the unconfirmed rallies Germany will be safe, afterall there are two teams based thers plus Toyota joining soon. I would say France is most at risk but Portugal is also a risk from moving north (that's why organisers are probably SO strict on spectators this year) and as for GB 2015 is last year of current sponsorship agreement and an extension has (yet)not been confirmed. GB also has a risk from new spectator safety rules imposed after several fatalities on Jim Clark Rally in Scotland plus others in the last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
I am failrly confident FIA will award a 'new rally' instead of one or maybe two of the above rallies money talks very loudly with FIA.
Shame that NZ hasnt had a guaranteed slot. Maybe Hyundai (and Toyota) see Australia as a bigger market?
Was it ever confirmed that Hirvonen and Latvala were paying or did they just survive because Malcolm had a Finn-Fetish?Quote:
Originally Posted by focus206
I think Meeke is a good example of a reasonable time frame. If Abbring can show some speed on his events this year I think he will be ok for next year even if he makes some mistakes.
New car sales in 2014:
Australia: 1,113,000
New Zealand: 126,000
Doesn't take a rocket scientist to work why the manufacturers, promoter and FIA would choose Australia....
Exactly, that's what I mean by "doing good". Showing some speed, possibly not crashing out.Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
Abbring has no past, present, or future in the top league.
Abbring's Sweden wasn't that impressive for lots of expectations, but this was still his first rally with a new WRC car, moreover on unfamiliar ground. I don't expect him to do many mistakes, but I expect him do much better in every rally afterwards.
Unfortunately at that level or you are Evans or you don't have too much chances to prove you are worth a seat. It's a pity because you need a lot of time and experience to show what you can really do in WRC but that's the way it is. If I were Abbring I would push as hell from the beginning not caring too much about crashes.
http://www.maxrally.com/2015/05/13/d...to-you-thierry
a rumour claiming that thierry might move to M-Sport next year? i thought he had a longer deal with hyundai
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/wm/nach...e-deutschland/
article talking about next year's calendar and also saying at the end of it that maybe Jordan will be back next year