WRC Croatia Rally 2021

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Originally Posted by Jarek Z

Has Kalle ever competed in Barum Rally? You probably mean Bohemia?
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/5...-bohemia-2019/

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Yes, my bad, that's what I meant :)

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Originally Posted by Jarek Z

Has Kalle ever competed in Barum Rally?

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No, never. Skoda Motorsport didnt wanted to send him.

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

Difficult to predict what happens. New rally, new tires, new drivers in new cars. Ogier is always strong in every rally, Neuville is good on tarmac. Tänak, Breen and Evans are more of question marks, although Tänak has won three times Rally Deutschland, Breen is an Irish rally champion and Evans is known to be good on tarmac. How do they fit in their new cars? Hyundai on tarmac for anyone else than Neuville and Sordo? And yeah, Kalle was able to beat Kopecky in Bohemia, and has the best start position, as the roads will likely get polluted.

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yeah, very hard to predict and thats actually a good thing. Based on the last two tarmacish events (Monza and Monte), Ogier and Toyota seems TO ME the strongest combo on the tarmac, followed by all the others in no particular order. Breen starts quite far back on first day so that might hamper him a little bit and also the fact that he hasnt competed on this level on tarmac with this machine. According to Neuville they have now fixed the intercom issues and he is always very fast on tarmac events. Kalle has the best starting position and the fact that its a completely new rally also plays into his hands.

So yeah, promises to be a very interesting rally.

And Croatia being a totally new rally in the calendar, an interesting fact that theres been 5 new rallies in the calendar since 2017 and Tänak has won 4 of them and has been second on fifth one. It seems something clicks for him with the new ones but we will see this time.

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

an interesting fact that theres been 5 new rallies in the calendar since 2017 and Tänak has won 4 of them and has been second on fifth one. It seems something clicks for him with the new ones but we will see this time.

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Good one! Do you mind if I tweet that?

of course not :D

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Originally Posted by Jarek Z

Has Kalle ever competed in Barum Rally? You probably mean Bohemia?
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/5...-bohemia-2019/

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

Yes, my bad, that's what I meant :)

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Croatia is somewhat closer to Bohemia in the character than to Barum anyway :)

No Niko Pulić, he was supposed to drive a R1 Ford but is now in hospital with serious Covid. He is Croatian motorsport legend who knows the roads excellent and it would've been great to have someone from Croatia driving in a top category in first historic Rally Croatia but unfortunately, that probably won't happen. It's hard to expect him to recover by then.

He would drive the Fiesta WRC.

R1 is the weakest car of FIA Pyramid.

Of course, *rc1, lapsus.

He probably won't drive anything, that was my point.

Fourmaux interview pre-Croatia: https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/how-c...-sports-season