[ERC] 2008 Istanbul Rally - official thread

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Originally Posted by LC54WRC

Geographical characteristics of Istanbul Rally is very similar to Finland Stages: fast and lots of bumps.
I think the most interesting stage is SS10 Ballica B-1. Some part of this stage was used in a National Rally named Pirelli in 2005.
The bump at the approximately 6 km away from the starting point of this stage is very dangerous. At that point 3 cars ran out of road after the bump.

, now there is a natural barrier to reduce the speed. Here are the pictures of that bump:

http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/S5001288_4.jpg

http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/S5001287_1.jpg

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One of the crash at the mythical bump of Istanbul Rally can be seen from the following link:


before the bump:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5cU4XR5u1A

after the bump:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRcKsuamjsg

PuddleJumper why don't you remove Panizzi and Augoyard from the pickem entrylist ??? :confused:

Eurosport tv-times for the week-end:

http://www.ircseries.com/html/Tv_times.asp

First photos from Turkey... Jan Kopecký's Pug:
http://www.rally-mania.cz/med.php?g=360&au=0

First pictures from Turkey: http://www.rally-erc.com

I have been following WRC for about 8 years now, but as it gets worse and worse, I decided to wander over to the IRC forum and se what's going on.

If someone could post a link, or write somethig here to teach me about this years IRC, the drivers, teams and the cars, I would appreciate it.

I've heard there are some familiar facs from WRC in the IRC, like Kopecky, Sola and Panizzi - are they any good? Kopecky used to be one of my favourite drivers.

Any help appreciated.

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Originally Posted by pettersolberg29

I have been following WRC for about 8 years now, but as it gets worse and worse, I decided to wander over to the IRC forum and se what's going on.

If someone could post a link, or write somethig here to teach me about this years IRC, the drivers, teams and the cars, I would appreciate it.

I've heard there are some familiar facs from WRC in the IRC, like Kopecky, Sola and Panizzi - are they any good? Kopecky used to be one of my favourite drivers.

Any help appreciated.

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Do you have Eurosport? If you do, make sure you watch this weekend!

The competition should be very close and the cars handle more like rally cars should handle, on gravel at least.

pettersolberg29, check http://www.ircseries.com :)

The shakedown results are available here:

http://www.istanbulrally.org/image/SHAKEDOWN_2008.pdf

Edit: or here http://www.rally-erc.com/article.php?cont=110

Shakedown photos:
http://rally-mania.cz/index.php?vypisVse=detail&id=4888