Tänak clearly holding the tires if you watch his sector times. Going up and down
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Tänak clearly holding the tires if you watch his sector times. Going up and down
Nice learning by McErlean so far. Promising for the future.
So, all the early pessimists about McErlean, must send him PM: "I am sorry, Josh, I was not familiar with your driving!" 😃
Kalle summarises the tyre situation:
"Let's see at the end of the loop. I think we drivers are rotating our tyres bit differently. Definitely not an easy loop to optimize the tyre usage, but I hope ours are good for the final two of the day"
Guy is 8th overall, almost a minute from the lead and only ahead of Pajari (who blew tyre) Munster (who is hopeless).Quote:
Originally Posted by AndersX
Nice push by Tanak and got away with it. He leads.
Tänak very lucky there
Nice close fight between toyota and Hyundai so far.
Top 5 within 9.9 sec, everything is still open
After SS6:
Solberg on SS6 :DQuote:
Solberg Oliver
Edmondson E.
"I lost engine power in the beginning, then I had no engine 6km from the end. It sounded like it came back, I don't know."
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...xMf8ZBNKEFLw&s
Kalle again nails it:
"Our tyre package is quite OK. Still the last one is going to be tricky as it always full ice and there you need good tyre, so let's see who has the best ones for it"
What he nailed ?
I doubt he will win like 20 seconds with the last stage. 10 yes, maybe.
Last year Evans was slowest rally1 on Friday nights Umea stage and lost 5 seconds to the winner.
Nope, tires goneQuote:
Originally Posted by Morte66
Neuville pushed a lot on that long stage and still had tires in the end
Tanak and Neuville much better after the lunch, Fourmaux kinda faded
So Taka and Neuville who pushed a lot on the longest stage still had tires in the end and were the fastest after lunch
Learning for all of them
Well. That was quite impressive, Elfyn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morte66
Top 5 in 9,1 seconds!
What can we expect from conditions tomorrow? More likely to be an advantage for the front runners or for the late runners?
No, I meant just he gave a clear summary of the tyre strategy playing out.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
It was actually nip and tuck for the top guys this afternoon, up and down stage by stage, with maybe Neuville and Katsuta making the best gains.
But it didn’t work out at all for himQuote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
I am really not sure. Before the race we expected early cars to have the advantage from Saturday onwards. But we also expected that for the last of the three stages on the Friday loop it's not really what I saw.Quote:
Originally Posted by focus206
better to be first tomorrow
Man, I think it's Evans' year. And it should be. After so many close calls.
Quote:
Originally Posted by denkimi
No need to go OTT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Negaiss
https://www.ewrc-results.com/profile...berto-nicolas/
It wasn't exactly unheard of to have privateers/gentlemen drivers being 5-7 seconds slower pr km than the fastest before either, but we did not have all live, so we just got the highlight-packages and there were 5-10 drivers in the M-Sport drivers range as well.
Kalle hasn't been able to adapt his driving style regardless of the tyre strategy.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
Geeeez, don't you stop whining about
Serderidis..?
Already understood from long time ago that lack of money makes people critize others.
Serderidis don't pay to be shown on AllLive.
He has done some dayjob for couple of years and now wants to drive in the nature with the best car of rallying..
Not his fault that others have to ride rental electric scooters..
Any information how much did it end up snowing overnight?
He is competing with no one, so it's not point of driving for such amount of money. There is masters cup, but we can all agree he would be the last everytime. It's just funny he has all the money and still can't get some expert crew to prepare him a little better... Or he is really that bad, that after all these years he still didn't figure out how to enter the turns (impulse breaking and gas)Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
and still.. counting others money and criticising them.
If he was driving some 30+y old volvo or what else car, then it would be okay right..?
It's just he has the possibility to use the best car and enjoy the sport and life. He isn't begging money from others.
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/getti...r-old-outlier/
And did it snow on the stages?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyest
I saw clips from the service park
Today's SS15 Umea 1 - 10.08km has been changed to Umea sprint 3 - 5.16km
I found...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyest
https://www.smhi.se/en/weather/obser...er,param=p_day
...but it left me with more questions.
Not much, it snowed a bit in the morning too, but nothing that would change the conditions IMO. Still clear line with ice and outside the line is loose snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyest
Munster flying, more than 30sec up on previous driver
Pajaris first two splits are massive. Even Kalle slower
Neuville totally on the limit 3kms after the start
why Evans started before Tanak and Katsuta?
As much as this Rally is nice, I still miss the old edition in Karlstad…Since we’re not coming back there, I wish we could have Rally Norway instead…
Starting order is based on standings after SS7. Super specials are disregarded when considering starting order and SS8 was a SSS.Quote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
Totally Toyotas stage and it seems the ice conditions suit him better
Yup, sleeping in my own bed with shakedown/servicepark 20min away would have been nicer than i 12 hour drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eli
Btw someone posted a video in the Enthusiast group last night, got removed quickly but from what i could get some kids had been out playing with cars and hit the deers, you could see them on the ground trying to crawl with broken legs probably, don't quote me on it