[WRC] 73. Secto Rally Finland 2024

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Originally Posted by CeskyOndra

That's a bit worrying for Toyota before toughest rally of the year, Greece. Did we know why it happened? Some bad jump?

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It happened in a junction, not after a jump or similar.

Amazing VC, now the stage is so much safer :D

If Elfyn can drag the car through Ouninpohja and get to service, he should still be P6, so can still score some points.

Lappi is so lucky, that could have been a huge shunt

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Originally Posted by erikli2

It happened in a junction, not after a jump or similar.

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But could be some bad jump before yk and it broke just in a juction

Lucky Lappi.. crash and roll was so close.. only puncture.

This could've been an end to Lappi's career.. So many mistakes

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Originally Posted by CeskyOndra

This could've been an end to Lappi's career.. So many mistakes

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Or this Korean technical masterpiece is undriveable.

Damn build this new car already Hyundai

Painful to hear the drivers.

I hope that in Greece it will be dominant as last years

Good time from Ogier compared to Kalle

33km of full send and 0.1 gap between Kalle and Ogier haha

The switch to skoda has done only good for Virves. Great to see

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Originally Posted by Pfei

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I have to stand by Gryazin on this one, as banal as it seems. I am also a "sim racer" and competed many times with Gryazin in online championships in Richard Burns Rally. He uses it for training, and in the world of sim rally comparing modded RBR to EA Sports WRC is an insult to RBR players. It's a hardcore ecosystem and elitism plays a big part in what game people see as more "realistic" than the other

Gryazin has always been a big RBR player and besides training he also does it for fun. He enjoys it and is a great member of the RBR community. He is very laid back, has always been very friendly and is, in general, just another one of us "gamers" when competing in rallies online.

I do believe that he was correct in calling out WRC for misquoting him.

Now I look at the quotes on WRC dot com and they have changed it to [rally game]. There is no way they are going to allow a twenty year old modded rally game to get publicity over the official EA Sports WRC on their own website, especially since the EA title has been so disappointing.

It may seem inconsequential and nitpicking, but non-sim racers would have a hard time understanding why the distinction is important to us. Heck, even in the sim racing world it's hard to understand why we take these things so seriously!

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I think that a lot of us here played RBR as welll and know that. I was an admin of rbronlineracing.cz myself at its beginnings but I stopped playing already 15 years ago (time flies!).

Nevertheless it's still completely ridiculous for a professional driver to distracts himself with reading online comments on the web.

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

The switch to skoda has done only good for Virves. Great to see

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There is 0 point to recce the stages with fiesta rally2

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Originally Posted by bandit12

Or this Korean technical masterpiece is undriveable.

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It's built in Germany mainly by French :D

Championship as it stands: (Evans 6th)

1. Neuville 158
2. Evans 138
3. Tänak 137
4. Ogier 132
5. Fourmaux 111

With Tänak not doing Super Sunday it is really possible that he will be 4th on the road in Greece. So nothing is lost for him.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

It's built in Germany mainly by French :D

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Sounds like an introduction to a good anecdote

If they were sensible Toyota could slow both Latvala and Pajari this afternoon which would get Evans up to 6th without affecting the top 2 cars.

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Originally Posted by Harry hairpin

If they were sensible Toyota could slow both Latvala and Pajari this afternoon which would get Evans up to 6th without affecting the top 2 cars.

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Evans is just 26.6s behind JML in Rally2 car, he will get past on his own. Pajari is another matter.

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Originally Posted by CeskyOndra

Championship as it stands: (Evans 6th)


1. Neuville 158
2. Evans 138
3. Tänak 137
4. Ogier 132
5. Fourmaux 111

With Tänak not doing Super Sunday it is really possible that he will be 4th on the road in Greece. So nothing is lost for him.

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Tänaks title hopes are basically gone. With these 3 last fast rallies he had perfect chance to go past Thierry but he failed to do this because of different circumstances.

His only hope is if Neuville will get a zero from Greece.

Btw what a time by Jürgenson on Ouninpohja. Miles faster than other

There was commentator speculation yesterday that the gap between Soberg and JML owed a lot to rain on the stage between them on Friday -- they were far apart in the running order.

Can anyone confirm or deny it?

Didn't see Evans's troubles, did the transmission go and it caused the spin, or did he spin and hit something that damaged the transmission?

Also guys, Neuville is one mistake or one technical trouble away from losing the title, and Acropolis is yet to come, not the kindest rally on cars, as you know. Championship is very much open.

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Originally Posted by bandit12

Sounds like an introduction to a good anecdote

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Or a good geoeconomic metaphor

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Originally Posted by Morte66

There was commentator speculation yesterday that the gap between Soberg and JML owed a lot to rain on the stage between them on Friday -- they were far apart in the running order.

Can anyone confirm or deny it?

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Solberg said himself on one stage that Latvala was caught by heavy rain which started only after him.

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Originally Posted by focus206

Didn't see Evans's troubles, did the transmission go and it caused the spin, or did he spin and hit something that damaged the transmission?

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It appeared the driveshaft went before the spin. During the stage, they played the spin and the jump before it, and co-commentator Marcus Gronholm said "that is already broken" when he watched the jump.

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Originally Posted by Morte66

It appeared the driveshaft went before the spin. During the stage, they played the spin and the jump before it, and co-commentator Marcus Gronholm said "that is already broken" when he watched the jump.

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Unlucky, unless he did something in the stage we didn't see. First major technical trouble for Toyota this year? Or second, I seem to remember Katsuta having some technical trouble at some point.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

I think that a lot of us here played RBR as welll and know that. I was an admin of rbronlineracing.cz myself at its beginnings but I stopped playing already 15 years ago (time flies!).

Nevertheless it's still completely ridiculous for a professional driver to distracts himself with reading online comments on the web.

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Only takes a couple of seconds when checking results, there is nothing ridiculous about it. Most crews will be messaging back to their social media teams all the time. I sometimes would post myself between stages.

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Originally Posted by J4MIE

Only takes a couple of seconds when checking results, there is nothing ridiculous about it. Most crews will be messaging back to their social media teams all the time. I sometimes would post myself between stages.

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It's not about the time but about distraction. You think about stuff which takes away concentration.

Evans 16 minutes late out of service.

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Evans 16 minutes late out of service.

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What are his chances to be back in the top 10 again this leg?

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Originally Posted by Mirek

Evans 16 minutes late out of service.

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there goes his chance to pass pajari and latvala

Crap car or not, absolutely everything is going Neuville's way so far in Finland.

Hi guys.
I´m back home again after had to interrupt my visit to Jyväskylä :( A very bad flu from night to Friday made me make decision to get back home and recover.
I came home this morning. You could tell how bad driver I´ve been in these nearly 500K travel...

Is there any chance that Evans will come back to TOP 10? I suspect like 2 minutes time lost max. for rally2's

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Hi guys.
I´m back home again after had to interrupt my visit to Jyväskylä :( A very bad flu from night to Friday made me make decision to get back home and recover.
I came home this morning. You could tell how bad driver I´ve been in these nearly 500K travel...

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Get well. Watch the stream. The rain is making it quite good rally.

Unlikely, unless there's some retirements ahead of him

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Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC

Crap car or not, absolutely everything is going Neuville's way so far in Finland.

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But he is always make the most out of every rally, even if he need to clean the road, have bad setup, crash, punctures, technical faults or just is slow as hell.

On the other hand, he (and others have one and last chance for the title), because Kalle is in his own world everywhere.

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Originally Posted by deephouse

But he is always make the most out of every rally, even if he need to clean the road, have bad setup, crash, punctures, technical faults or just is slow as hell.

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Yeah, I've nothing against him, just stating a fact. Some were writing him off before the fast gravel events but he could well have kept his size of lead.