heavy snow over there now and freezing overnigh awaiting
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heavy snow over there now and freezing overnigh awaiting
It started snowing!
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Me too, I´m also impressed by Lefebvre but rally is still loooong way to go. I´m also positive that Risto will take his place during the Saturday ;) ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Georgi
Photos from day 1 Rallijs Liep?ja-Ventspils 1. diena - Go4speed
another video from shakedown youtube.com/watch?v=KOnIhQ2F2NU
Yes, the rally is still in a very early stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeppe
Let's say both are making excellent result so far.
Now I saw the profile of Immonen. He is 22 years of age.
Second season with the C2 R2 MAX and with an experienced co-driver.
Lefebvre is 20 years old. Coming from karting. Last season was driving DS3 R3T and 207 R3T on gravel and tarmac in France. Did Monte-Carlo in 2011 when the rally was with some snow and black ice stages.
Probably the 208 R2 is more performing and recent R2 car than the C2.
Also the Peugeot Sport support is important assistance!
Will be interesting event in the 2WD category.
Thanks for sharing, Tolis. The less work for me :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by tolis
Eight different nationalities occupy top eight places tonight in this ERC :)
Delecour and his open door: ERC LATVIA Delecour-Savignoni SS3 - Video Gallery - ERC European Rally Challenge - Eurosport
Yet another chapter to add to the Legend of Delecour :)
Will not Delecour be allowed to change ratio on the gearbox?
Door malfunction guess:Quote:
Originally Posted by tolis
Delecour had to pull the door handle full open fist to get the door closed - next.
In Austria the shift lever, and here this. What will happen in the next rally? hahaha
It's really hot up (side down) out there... :D
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So, nice beginning for the rally. Interesting startorder for tomorrow; http://lrc.lv/files/r107/start-tc3e.pdf
Weather: Do not get too overexcited about the snowfall. These were very local snowshowers and I cannot tell if they hit the stages or not. Seems that some stages were influenced indeed (Morning stages). There is a little more snow expected early in the morning (around 4-6 AM - for the Kuldiga and Ventspils region, more to he north and NW).
Air temperature is currently between -1.6 and -3.3, road is between -3.0 and -5.5 degrees.
It willl be between -1.. and -2 in the morning, temperature should increase over 0 at around 12-13 PM, but it will not be more than +0.5 or +1 in most of the places. Roadsurface should stay below 0 all day long.If there is no new snow by the morning then there is nearly no possibility that it coes during the day.
I think that Jari didnt choose the best position today and a littlebit later starters benefited from more clear lines and etc. Looking forward to big fight for tomorow.Completely different stages from stage 7.
By the way.. Today is the birthday for.. Breen?! Happy birthday!
A victory here would be a such wonderful birthday present for Craig :bounce:
Anyway, start SS4 in about 30 minutes ;)
SS4 on the way :cool:
Wow, Breen so fast
Breen fastest again ;)
Delecour losing 10" over Lukyanuk because of short gearbox :mark:
How short is the gearbox? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Immonen only 0"1 faster than Lefèbvre :p :
Very nice to see that Craig Breen is very fast, i guess i knew allready but i am surprised that he can beat Ketoma on these snow and ice covered roads. Hope he can keep this up, alltough it is not good for my pickems. :D
SS5 running :cool:
It wouldn't be good for most of them :D But I wish him victory for his birthday present :)Quote:
Originally Posted by wwbroe
I think the reason is not only gearbox. 'Lukas' as always amazingly quick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom206wrc
Immonen looks like faster than Lefèbvre this morning :confused:
It´s not only Lukyanuk, Delecour also can´t keep pace against Breen & Ketomaa anymore it seems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xsara Fan
SS6 on the run :cool:
Agreed, it's amazing what he can do with Gr.N/R4 car... I hope ASRT media would upload some onboards from him, always a pleasure to watch. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Xsara Fan
I don´t understand Delecour´s gearbox issue, they had 45 min service after SS3!?
So far I´m positive surprised by Breen, Levebrve, Immonen, the fast baltic Evos, also Cerny seems to learn fast....little disappointed by Danzinger, Orsak though.
Ketomaa takes the lead, great time by Cherny too
I am really surprised by Ketomaa's lack of performance. Are the DMack tyres that bad or is he just taking it easy?
What I understood is he doesn't really taking victory very seriously here, more like test for Sweden next weekQuote:
Originally Posted by RS
Whose tyre?
Rainer Aus, it was just posted in FB by his co-driver Simo Koskinen, its seems that Janis Vorobjovs has the same problem... they are running in Lativan Championship, so they are starting behind ERC crews , its seems that the road must be pretty bad by then to have this effect, or just defected tyres...
So Breen loses the time he's built up in one stage... shame :(
Level with Kat after 6 stages isnt bad though.
“I’m not overly surprised, it was going to happen at some stage because I’m driving very much within myself,” said Breen. “I’m not worried about because I can still find something, I should be fine.”