Rally2 (ex-R5) News

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Originally Posted by jcevc

Yes, if you start to check the times on 10:00 CET - but if you was looking at 7:30 CET and first 30 cars finished the stage without time for Mikkelsen, you can clearly ask what happened to him - especially when also on SS2 first cars arrived to finish and again no time for Mikkelsen - later they add times for him for both SS.

Anyway, I expected higher lead after 4 SS :)

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They have found (and added) his times only when he has arrived to regrouping after SS 2.

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Originally Posted by jcevc

Anyway, I expected higher lead after 4 SS :)

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26 seconds after SS6. Is it good enough? ;)

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Originally Posted by Jarek Z

26 seconds after SS6. Is it good enough? ;)

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Not yet :P

He just lost 4.6s to Tom Kristensson.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

He just lost 4.6s to Tom Kristensson.

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I think he is driving the car home in first place at the moment, and not pushing to set fastest stage times. What a better start it would be for new Skoda? First official rally for car = first win. Bingo.

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Hard to judge really. With Mikkelsen driving you'd expect such a lead in any Rally2 car

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True. This is the problem with running on a low profile event such as this. It's bigger news if he doesn't win than he does.

As Lead says he's probably just driving within himself at the moment to get the result. Conditions are tricky and he doesn't know the car as well as the old one.

What can we conclude from the first start:

- Skoda/Toksport use a lighter green color
- the car is not significantly slower than the old one
- it can drive a rally without major technical issues (looking at both Hyundai and Polo first start)

That's about it.

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Originally Posted by mknight

What can we conclude from the first start:

- Skoda/Toksport use a lighter green color
- the car is not significantly slower than the old one
- it can drive a rally without major technical issues (looking at both Hyundai and Polo first start)

That's about it.

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Yep. Now i suppose we have to wait another couple of months for a proper debut.

At least Mikkelsen and Toksport gained some experience of running the car on a real event.

Great stage times and overall rally from Kristensson.

Some good footage from Lausitz here:

https://youtu.be/uh6qPPlwdFk