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So this weekend was Kumrovec rally in Croatia. Some stages and parts of some stages were used as sunday stages on Croatia Rally.
Without further redue, drunk civilian car driver stole the show.
Video is here https://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/...a/2494171.aspx
Statement by the Organizing Committee is here https://www.facebook.com/rally.kumro...ref=embed_post
There was a similar incident in a rally in Finland this weekend, Teemu posted on Twitter
https://twitter.com/HartusvuoriWRC/s...208225588?s=20
What’s it like inside a WRC service area ?
EVO is a fly on the wall inside the Toyota Gazoo Racing team at the 2023 Acropolis Rally Greece
https://www.evo.co.uk/rallying/20612...c-service-area
Paddon driving the 700 horsepower Hyundai i20 at NZ's Ashley Forest Rallysprint, this weekend 16/17 September.
Livestream could be European insomniac time schedule. https://www.facebook.com/thepitstv and pits tv youtube.
Paddon below one minute on the first run, at Ashley Forest Rallysprint. About an hour in for Paddon's run.
https://www.youtube.com/live/UGFHRwA...RjnikT5WU8Xh4A
https://www.rallylegend.com/en/2023/...th-dani-sordo/
Sordo to drive an i20 Coupe WRC at RallyLegend
Paddon considering a run for the Australian Rally Championship in 2024.
We are in a lull of sorts, and its probably best to look at some weird facts for the year so far:
1. Generally, 2023 has been viewed as a terrible year for M-Sport Ford; yet they have won twice as many events as Hyundai!!!!
2. The driver with the most wins this year is a part-timer - Seb Ogier. For the record, championship leader Kalle Rovanpera has won as many.
3. Only eleven drivers have scored power stage points. Of those, one was a team principal on a one-off drive and, sadly, another is no longer with us.
4. Oliver Solberg is the highest ranked non-Rally1 driver overall. But he has contested more events than most top Rally2 protagonists. Incidentally, Oliver has more points to his name than Pierre-Louis Loubet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnaTUQ2UdMA
First night action from RallyLegend with Latvala in the Yaris Rally 1 amongst others
Paddon driving a Porsche GT3 at the Highlands 6 hour today.
Outside NZ and Aus coverage is on Motorsport-tv.
https://motorsport.tv/highlands-6-ho...aturday/189992
Just me or videos like this are awesome for a rally fan to watch? https://youtu.be/lise16NPcwA?feature=shared
Nice video indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by lmmjvss
Reminds me of the Henning Solberg vs bobsleigh race..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RSn7OyBdhM
https://twitter.com/peugeotsport/sta...qn_do8ikw&s=19
RIP
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I will always remember this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLq2IRf2hGM
I was one of 3 bobpilots in that clip, it was close to 60 runs in two days, noone can do that amount of runs in a bobsleigh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duvel
My record is 13, normaly WC pilots do 6-8 runs a day.
Arnfinn, the "offical" pilot attended both olympics in Nagano and Salt Lake.
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After the meeting with the drivers, Petter Solberg reported 82 ideas to improve the championship.
That's more than this forum. :D
What meeting?
link?Quote:
Originally Posted by WRCStan
we're slacking :D
The meeting called for drivers to have input after Thierry took to Twitter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
FIA rally newsletter. I've no idea where it is on the web but I expect the usuals will gather some more quotes and publish next few days. Only suggestions mentioned was to have toilet and bin stops in the roadbook and bigger service area for WRC2 teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by seb_sh
Former WRC driver Lorenzo Bertelli finally wins something!
https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/8...brunello-2023/
His mother will be proud...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
French Winter Series "Tropee Andros" is shutting down after 2024.
Its funny cuz people are blaming the shift to EVs 2 years ago but its actually because theres no more ice to keep the tracks! This is so sad, we have been seeing similar stuff starting in Rally Sweden and even Monte Carlo.
Last 2 years some of the Tropee Andros were basically wet tracks cuz the ice was gone. They have been canceling rounds for 3 years already because such thing. Thats REALLY sad. It was such a fun thing to watch during December/January, when motorsport is basically non existent.
The R.A.C Rally currently taking place brought to the fore one nostalgic memory for me - Large DOOR numbers.
We have debated this here in the past, but how I wish the FIA seriously considered bringing them back.
BAJA 1000 is done... Its crazy to watch some of the onboards! There are so many fans watching the race from the side of the track. Some of them even go basically INSIDE the track like WRC in the 80s. They go 100kmh on the start, but in the desert is race speed. They reach almost 200kmh at some point. This is insane.
I love these stuff. SCORE (the name of that championship with the Bajas rounds) are missing such an oportunity by not having 40min highlights anymore. They used to have those. It was great!
ANyway, this onboard is cool to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyKJlJGmjeI
Bryce Menzies also had a great video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-38QNgB2cbE
Someone on the track filming the Big Trucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtsfjzWPD48
Not sure whats the level of interest from you fellas here
How many spectators are killed?Quote:
Originally Posted by lmmjvss
I guess none. I remember 2016 had one casuality, I guees two fans died in ´18... but I imagine theres more if you dig on that. But heyyy, its America. They are free to choose if they want to die or not hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
Well... looks beyond limits...Quote:
Originally Posted by lmmjvss
I have never met anybody who was interested in it. Here in Europe we only know the name Baja, but not much more. But those cars look impressive!Quote:
Originally Posted by lmmjvss
I was once wondering why there is a Lancia Delta called Baja:
https://pixarcars.pl/lancia-delta-in...ja-blazers-610
and never found the answer! :)
I guess an interest in trucks and great expanses of open country help, inversely we here all know and love a little hatchback and have roads leading to almost every square kilometre on the continent. However, there's nothing in these videos that doesn't look it'll stump a Rally1, so what makes it off-roading? They are all following the same course which is worn like something from Kenya or Sardinia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
An FIA system Baja will be a rally, but the one that gave them the name, the Baja 1000, is a race not a rally, and SCORE is not a FIA member associate.
I remember back in the 60´s Saab factory team was competing in Baja 1000. If I´m correct they won their class, or maybe even overall.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
It is probably this story:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rallyper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsWgEvYM5Jo
Aahh. You see. My memory still works. :) :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
1969 then. White Saab, better in the warmth. Simo Lampinen would like the colour.
Nicky Grist and Juha Kankkunen put together a rather interesting chat recently.
Quite revealing to hear them say they were shocked to pull away from Colin McRae at a Super Special with ease.
https://youtu.be/hQJ5Hsz6AAI?si=kcgFiYY5XBsbFo_A
enjoyed watching that, thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by 240RS
I was wondering, watching the highlights of both the 2007 & 2009 editions of Rally Ireland, why did it fail? how come we never saw it again on the calendar and is there any chance Bobby Willis will succeed in bringing it back in one way or another to the calendar? It looks like it could be a unique tarmac event imho.
The president of Paraguay received WRC representatives to host a 2025 race in Encarnación, Itapúa Department.
https://www.motorpy.com/revive-el-su...rc-a-paraguay/
Abiteboul said: “What I regret is that we don’t have the structure of discussion to talk these things through, and being able to share and express opinions, and being able to form a consensus.
“We don’t have that [in WRC], but in Formula 1 we do have that. We’ve got lots of opportunities to talk to the FIA, the promoter. We may agree, disagree, and get to some sort of conclusion. We try things out, sometimes they succeed, sometimes they fail. But at least it’s a moving thing.
The Hyundai team principal reflected on the specific situation from that day in Japan as the perfect proof of his point.
“We want to see beautiful cars in extreme conditions,” he said. “But we would like to [actually] see them. Because frankly this morning (Friday) there was not much to see, the [live video] coverage was not excellent, there were not that many cameras around the road. I think that was poor.
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/the-f...pling-the-wrc/