Great news ! Cant wait to see his speed there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
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Great news ! Cant wait to see his speed there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarek Z
Pietarinen testing c3 r5
https://twitter.com/HartusvuoriWRC/s...52000510558211
it says Rally2 in side of car...Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
not old R5.
I bet it has written R5 in its homologation papers...Quote:
Originally Posted by pantealex
Jari Huttunen
@HuttunenRacing
This week`s agenda: Testing a brand new Hyundai i20 N Rally2 in famous tarmac roads of Toscana Flag of Italy
Next week`s agenda: Pushing pedal to the metal in fast gravel roads of #RallyEstonia Flag of Estonia
#WRC2 #HMSGOfficial #Hyundai
https://youtu.be/4RMdD_xwUgA
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E52r-lpV...jpg&name=small
Oliver Solberg saying he won't be back in a wrc car this year. R5 from now on, which I guess we expected?
I think he did not say this year as a whole, but the question was "will we see you in WRC car on our rally".
New Rally2 car needs to be introduced properly...Quote:
Originally Posted by er88
Estonia speed is there - Lukyanuk was fastest on the first shakedown run for Rally2's and 2nd on the second.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
The RC2 fight is as always exiting, many times as exiting as in RC1.
Tip RC2 top 3 in Estonia.
No excuses for Mikkelsen - he needs to win in Estonia for his Ch'ship hopes and has just done the high speed Rally Liepeja.
1. Østberg
2. Gryazin
3. Mikkelsen
1.Gryazin
2.Ostberg
3.Mikkelsen
4.Lukyanuk
5.Kaur
Gryazin will not finish this rally without a major incident.
Very useful post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
That would be shame because he knows this rally well + he won ERC Liepaja (similar roads) where he actually showed outstanding speed and later drove in safe mode to protect the win (sounds unreal, but thats what happened). And already in Liepaja he was talking about Estonia and some clever tyre strategy. Win in this rally would be huge boost for his future career plans. I actaully want him to suceed here and I'm sure he is capable to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tauri_J
EDIT: And he will have almost ideal road position, not the first and not the too far back).
Østberg is clearly the biggest favourite beforehand.
He is best on this kind of rallies, has extensive experience from Estonia including last year in same car (only WRC2 driver except Huttunen om same car) and has done extensive testing/development for this rally.
Others have pros and cons with Gryazin and Mikkelsen being the closest on paper.
But as it's rally anything can happen.
WRC3 cars like Lukyanuk will surely benefit from start posistion on first pass (also shown last year), might suffer on second.
Usually I´m wrong with these but I don´t see Østberg as fastest driver in Estonia.
We will see.
Also according to Becs he brought his dampers in his luggage with him again. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by mknight
You dont have to be outright fastest to win a rally. We've seen it a lot lately.
Østberg leads actually, waiting for solberg, gryazin, lucy etc
He actually brought 8 dampers in his luggage, he means business
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Puncture for Solberg on SS3?
Edit: jump, bæng, radiator, retirement.
Huttunen stopped and Solberg is marked as Super Rally on stage 4...
WRC3 - 23.9s lead for Lukyanuk after the first loop.
Does anyone really care? Just look at the R5 cars overall - and Lukyanuk leads that! Great drive so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC
Just being factual.Quote:
Originally Posted by er88
His pace on these type of roads is awesome - and without all the backing and testing of the WRC2 driver's and in a different car than in ERC.
Good pace by Luky today, lets see if he can keep it up tomorrow, when he starts at the same place in the field as the rest.
But it seems to love the Skoda!
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Originally Posted by Tauri_J
I think it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by TypeR
And there goes my dream of Gryazin winning in Estonia...
I'm not surprised he crashed, but just that the pace this weekend wasnt there for him (he sounded confused himself). Thats strange considering excellent pace and car setup in Liepaja 2 weeks ago.
Agreed. Really bizarre lack of outright pace from NG. I thought he would just disappear into the distance like he did in Liepaja....Quote:
Originally Posted by Lead
Mikkelsen won WRC2 taking maximum points against the best field of the year so far on a type of rally that's not his best. Controlling it since Friday evening. Looked like cat and mouse with Østberg. When Mikkelsen took it easy and lost some time, he would win next stage.
Østberg was fast, but with regards to punctures he had one here with Michelin last year as well and one when fighting for lead in Portugal this year.
Gryazin sadly didn't surprise with crash, but hasn't really had a single stage with top pace for some reason.
Hard to judge Lukyanuk, great drive for sure, but comparison with WrC2 is difficult.
Some 4 weeks ago on a similar rally in Poland Lukyanuk was 15th on the road, Gryazin 38 (23 cars later) and with cleaning led Luykanuk by 36s after first section.
Two weeks ago in Liepaja Luykanuk was number 10 on the road and got beaten in first leg by Breen with 13s at start position 21. (as well as Llarena from 25th). During that rally Lukyanuk was very vocal how unfair advantage that was.
Now come Estonia Luykanuk was starting 17 cars later than WRC2 top and led with 20s after first leg.
At that point obviously Mikkelsen just looked on Østbergs times and not on Lukyanuk who would still start 7 cars later the next day and didn't take any points off him.
I wrote this already in January when Mikkelsen said he wants to win every rally in Rally2 category. That I doubt he will push if he leads WRC2 easily and WRC3 is far ahead. With one 0 score in WRC2 already that's exactly what he did.
Classic Lukyanuk - never knows how to cruise to a win ! :roll:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6lCJYZW...pg&name=medium
Did not see the roll of Luky, but i guess it was a soft one in the sand.
But he still managed to keep his RC2 win by 13,8 to Mikkelsen, and 8th total. Not bad, even with better starting position.
I would like to see that cars got starting positions based on result so far in the rally, and not just in your class, and classes are priority 1. At least inside a RC group.
I wouldn't call it soft. 😛Quote:
Originally Posted by Sulland
first we had the slow outdated fabia at fast rallies.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Now we have the starting position.
The truth is that the aged Russian was faster this weekend,with a new car,from a new team,and new co driver.
Lukyanuk himself says a startposition like this is a big advantage and accused Breen of cheating in Liepaja.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
At that same rally Lukyanuk was slower than Mikkelsen when they both have the same starting position whole weekend. (Lukyanuk with different car, Mikkelsen with different tires).
Around here nobody had Mikkelsen as main favourite for WRC2, not in this thread, not in Estonia thread and not in pickems. He beat them all in WRC2, got full points and won all powerstages he started this year.
Yet for you he is as always the biggest disappointment of the whole rally. Cause he didn't try to charge the non-scoring guy that he just beat two weeks before.... at this point you are just down to "hate no matter what" levels.
Sadly the aged Russian has also just shown on PS why he never made it to WRC. There was no chance he would would win the rutted Powerstage from that startposition, yet he tried and only luck made him not retire few kms from finish.
about the slow fabia at fast rallies any news?Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
With a proper driver (Mikkelsen) and good setup it can obviously beat other cars. Either C3 (driven by Lukyanuk and Østberg), or Polo (driven by Gryazin). Lukyanuk had basically only Fabias in his category with same starting position in Estonia.Quote:
Originally Posted by dimviii
For comparison you can check how many fast international gravel rallies it won in 2020.
so we are not sure yet if fabia is fast at fast ralllies.Quote:
Originally Posted by mknight
Man its a pleasure to read your posts.