Not bad time and stage win for "wrong tyres" ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
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Not bad time and stage win for "wrong tyres" ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
No first splits for Koci & Ingram ??!
yep, those two blank lines make me worry too
Ingram 2nd split pop-up
Worried... hope its a timing glitch.
Koci OUT! O_o
Yessss Ingram thru !!
Koci stopped.
That was a scary but thrilling finale... what a drive by Ingram here on his 4WD debut. :D
Stopped or crashed?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
ripped wheel offQuote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Yes, great drive by Ingram! Clearly the best Under-28 driver in this rally. Congratulations!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Sesks time for prev stages was corrected and now he full minute down on overall
Strange coincidence.. Huttunen didnt get through the final stage here last year when battling with Ingram in the Junior U27's !
:D I forgot about live video
Congrats to Lukyanuk... different class here and a pretty comfortable win in the Fiesta R5.
Which class?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
after last stage:
Lukyanuk Alexey - Arnautov Alexey
" I was so happy that I made some donuts before the end. Thanks to my team, my sponsors, they all did really great job. We will try to do our best and be clever."
U27.... Sesks down to 3rd. Llarena cut 40sec on one stage!!!
He has broken gearbox, only 1st and 2nd gear working.Quote:
Originally Posted by KKS
Yes.. but Magalhães performance made me optimistic for the year.. last year he never really impressed me that much but he still took the championship down to the wire. He was a bit erratic here but sometimes quite fast too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Overall, despite no Kajto or Bouffier this year I think this year’s ERC looks quite bright with the number and quality of drivers in U28. Still some to join too like Gryazin, Cerny and I think maybe more.
The class of Champion I think... beating his biggest rival here and on Magalhaes' "home" event.Quote:
Originally Posted by stefanvv
@MSportLtd
Congratulations to Alexey Lukyanuk and Alexey Arnautov who piloted their #FordFiesta R5 to victory @FIAERC #AzoresAirlinesRallye today! 🏁🏆👏🏼 https://t.co/uQYEpNzudS
FIAERC.com
"Alexey Lukyanuk laid down an emphatic marker for his ERC rivals to aim for, leading Azores Airlines Rallye from Thursday afternoon all the way through to Saturday’s final stage, and capping his wining start to this year’s FIA European Rally Championship with donuts before the finish line. Portuguese drivers Ricardo Moura and Bruno Magalhães tried their best, but had no answer for Lukyanuk’s rapid pace."
"Russia Performance Motorsport’s lead driver set hearts racing with only a few hundred meters of Tronqueira’s second pass remaining, Lukyanuk pulling wide to celebrate his impending victory with donuts. His showmanship cost over half a minute, but with nearly one minute in hand, entertaining the onlooking fans made no difference to the standings, sealing victory by 16.4 seconds."
Great event in the azores, Lukyanuk looks a litle bit faster than anyone but no so far. Great times for many U28, the season looks promising. A same that the notional times where given so late from the COC that it made the fight in the U27 a bit in the unknown, great perfomance from our young gun Llarena, nice battles going to come during the year with the Opels and Wagner (a same the broken gearbox for him). Counting the days to came to the Islas Canarias
So the ERC this year is going to be Lukyanuk vs the local village nobodies at each event ?? pathetic.
Lukyanuk most of time is local village nobody too
The Championship may not have big names and others have gone to WRC2, but ERC is still a good starting point.
Like for Breen and Lappi... top young prospects have to start somewhere.
If you want to develop as a driver, actually have a chance to win something and give some exposure to your sponsors then ERC is still the place to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Then you should go to WRC2 to learn the events.
Last show from Yesterday night made me chuckle when I heard how the commentator pronounced Sesks. Sounded like a German - Martin Zoesch. I like Carlton Kirby's voice but his pronunciation of foreign names is off the charts. You would think that they would do just a little bit of research of how to say the drivers names before recording the voice over...Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
But the shots are very nice indeed.
Happy for Sesks, good pace at his international debut. Congrats to Gago. Also impressed with Ingram, didn't expect him to be so fast so early. Overall a nice start to the season :)
https://www.facebook.com/joana.rodri...14159880764063Quote:
Originally Posted by drive
Here's a video of what happened:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC51ekDR6T0
Have you seen Craig Breen's spectacular performance on the city stage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4myIB0xCGk
Is it pronounced as it is written?Quote:
Originally Posted by eddy707
On day one he called Koci 'cookie' as I guess he didn't want to say 'cocky', but by day two he had found out how to say it properly.
Koči shall be pronunced somewhat like what You would wrote as Koche.
Interesting fact - everybody thinks that Opel Adam is the best R2 car now. But at the finish line of Junior ERC U27 we have 5 Peugeots and just 1 Opel in the top 6:
https://rally-base.com/2018/azores-a...90&ssGroupId=1
Well, with only 2 Adam R2's at the start, and one of them crashing out, you cannot expect much more... :)
Can anyone tell me please what Luky said when he saw the cows?
https://www.facebook.com/lukyanuk/vi...8649396627642/
it's not for children auditory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Pacheco
His two words expression about very close relatives is a version "light" of really hardcore expression :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Luis Pacheco
I think some meditation exercises can be useful to be prepared for such situations.Quote:
Originally Posted by sindroms