Seems like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
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Seems like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
Possibly arch structure (anchoring ties and ropes) have been entangled around suspension and wheels. So no actual damage but impossible to continue until those have been taken out. Just speculation by the look of it.
They should give Ott notional time. Hope for god there isnt any human under the arch.
I think that Evans hit that arch or just some part of it and then when Tanak got by it fell on car. I think it went under the car and stuck there.
Tanaks car moving again all ok
Ha ha great comments ! :D
Aaaahhh. Tanak raging over safety. The arch was visibly on the road but no red flag before Tanak came.
Tanak somewhat smirking towards officials at the stop control...
I’m done.
Right words Tänak.
This is unbelievable how it was allowed
What the hell just happened
Fkng disgrace from race org.
I mentioned this to someone in WRC TV in Poland, the arches are always in such bad places taking rear wings off and everything, and they are not there on the recce, and here we are again...
You just gotta love Tänak: ”hope the wine was good” 😃
But he is right, why was he not warned?
Because they had wine to drink.Quote:
Originally Posted by COD
Maybe it fell just before he came like few seconds?
Lucky Tanak came through that. He could've been put out of the rally.
They dont run 0 car before Ogier? Maybe there are some confused spectators on road?
Looked like the arch was still standing after Elfyn went past it, it might've fallen down just before Ott came.
Camera footage shows that Evans hit the arc ropes that came off. Immediate thought was why they did not red flag the stage for Tänak and then they made it even worse not showing what happened to Tänak, were they all ok or not.
Still he could get a warning, marshalls do have phones and other communication methods. And by the time someone should at least wave with hands and the crew would lower their speed and be extra careful. Why did they do that then for Adrien and Taka? And literally everytime in all of every other events when something happens. This smells to me like the locals do now want to even try, hmm. We know why. Because he is not Sesks or Latvian.Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
The broadcast is like we are watching some village Mickey Mouse rally.
Why dont they show the incident now Tanak is ok ?
At least spectators are behaving better here than in Poland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dontcut
5.42.6 or something like that would be nominal time for Tänak
And what If it just had fallen right before he came? What can you do then? We don't know, we have to wait for more infoQuote:
Originally Posted by deephouse
Nominal time, really?
I was ready to jump out of a window
Tanak did comment like they just stood there and drink wine, like they don't bother at all. That's why I assume it fell way before and they didn't bother because he is not their local hero.Quote:
Originally Posted by CeskyOndra
And they put 5.42.8. Okay but looking the progress then 42.6 at least should have beenQuote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC
It was already seen from Evans tv footage that the ropes broke off from the arc and the arc itself got damaged. The reaction time by the stewards and the race control centre was just too slow. Glad that nobody was hurt.
How the nominal times given? We have 3 drivers with 3 different times
Thankfully all ok. Awful bloody arches perched right on the edge of the road, make them wider if they need them for sponsors or keep them to straight sections/finishes.
For a split second I was fearing the worst when I saw images of Tanaks car draped in covers
People online questioning if the rally is safe when its without all camera's available for the organisers ?
Also all the lost audience figures without TV coverage....will Prompter pay back some damage to organizer?
Probably based on split times.Quote:
Originally Posted by cosmin_sb
I wonder if instead nominal time given to those affected by that kind of incidents should be cut of the last sector to the finish. And then use time for all drivers for the last normal achieved sector. That means if there is 4 sectors and incident happen in the last (4/4), the time would be apply from 3/4 sector. It would be fair for everybody.
On one hand it makes me laugh that these things all the time happen with Tänak. The deer in Poland and now this here.
But on the other hand I’m super mad. They had static camera there and saw exactly what happened and that the arch was laying there and you do nothin?
Imagine if he we had to retire because of this and lost all todays points.
Oh boy. Amateur hour
Organizer of Rally Latvia is more experienced than numbers of ERC and WRC taken together. This should be counted as unprecedented event, with human error on the reaction time. But there should have been cameras and rally center should have seen it to make actions.Quote:
Originally Posted by EstWRC