2013 ERC News and Results

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Rally-eMag: Sacrifice few minutes to watch this video of Darkstar ;)
Jänner Rallye 2012 [HD] - YouTube

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Who says Rally isn't pure fun :)

And also this one: 29 Jänner Rallye 2012 - The Best Of by OesRecords - YouTube

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Originally Posted by Mirek

You don't know Jänner? It's annual season opening. First international event of the year held in Austrian highlands near Czech border with international competition of Austrian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovak and other crews. Also one of the very few events were Stig Blomqvist still drive! Roads of Jänner were also used for Pirelli Star Driver Shootout but that was in summer. This year it was ERC opener won by Jan Kopecký infront of Juhö Hänninen and Beppo Harrach. The leaderboard was changing all the time with difficult weather (heavy new snow) and many offs.

In fact the rally is very similar to Monte Carlo. Stages are very similar to for example Saint Bonnet and the weather is usually similar. The difference is that in Jänner narrow snow tyres are allowed even with asphalt basis of the roads.

Here an onboard of Juho ;)

Onboard Hanninen Jänner rally 2012 RZ 16.mp4 - YouTube

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I feel bad for not knowing :P It looks great, Monte Carlo-ish with a nice amount of snow.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Rally-eMag: Sacrifice few minutes to watch this video of Darkstar ;)
Jänner Rallye 2012 [HD] - YouTube

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Wasn't really a sacrifice :D Looks great, especially the night stages are bad ass!

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Originally Posted by pucky54

My vote is for 12 rounds:
1. Jänner
2. Acores
3. Canarias
4. Corsica
5. Ypres
6. San Marino
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7. Bosphorus
8. Madeira
9. Barum
10. Yalta
11. Poland
12. Sanremo

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In my opinion the calendar that you propose is the most expensive calendar that you can think of. Not only it consists of as many as 12 events, but also contains the most expensive rallies, like Acores, Canarias and Madeira. Let's not repeat mistakes from the past :)

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Originally Posted by Rally-eMag

Why wouldn't Fins be interested?

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Because there were only two Finns competing in ERC in the last 20 years ;)

If it as up to me...

1. Jänner
2. Mille Miglia
3. Tour de Corse
4. Bosphorus
5. Ypres
6. Rajd Polski
7. Barum
8. Sanremo
9. Scotland
10. Valais

Too much asphalt, I know. But I can't skip any of those asphalt events I wrote :)

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Originally Posted by Jarek Z

In my opinion the calendar that you propose is the most expensive calendar that you can think of. Not only it consists of as many as 12 events, but also contains the most expensive rallies, like Acores, Canarias and Madeira. Let's not repeat mistakes from the past :)

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...as I wrote, only 8 rounds count, so you can leave out the most expensive ones if you want... :)

I hope there wont be a rule like in IRC, that manufactures have to enter the championship. Otherwise, we risk seeing conflicts again like in Ypres (Snijers who had to start far in his Mini, despite being in the top 5 overall)...

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Originally Posted by Mirek

If it as up to me...

1. Jänner
2. Mille Miglia
3. Tour de Corse
4. Bosphorus
5. Ypres
6. Rajd Polski
7. Barum
8. Sanremo
9. Scotland
10. Valais

Too much asphalt, I know. But I can't skip any of those asphalt events I wrote :)

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Run Sanremo as a 'mixed' event? Not that it will happen. I'm glad you've included Valais - I really liked that event back in 2008.