They are back up again, don't know for how long though.Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
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They are back up again, don't know for how long though.Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
Nice piece on how Meirion Evans is finding Toyota transition:
https://rallyinsight.com/2024/04/09/...ta-transition/
Evans / Ingram PET for Rallynuts:
https://youtu.be/kWwJ-JhTSVU?si=Qc0SWg1HObmPVe5B
I know this may be a long shot but does anyone have the sportity PWd for this weekends Rallynuts? PM me please.
I know this may be a long shot but does anyone have the sportity PWd for this weekends Rallynuts? PM me please.
I have used Sportity for a while now as you described, but I notice Rallynuts organisers have now removed it and send out the PWd to competitors only.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Boyd
Great, probably as a result of folk sharing it all publicly or on Facebook. Excellent work chaps…Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunbeamti
Yes disappointing, I dont really see the harm. Mostly its dedicated spectators that look as deep as this. It certainly helped me on the NW stages this year after a mess of a morning. The Marshalls had little knowledge of the nissues when I asked them! Oh Well back to my trusty scanner.Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
Sportraxx map is on the app, looks like its been running for recce today anyway.
Good to know that is still an open service. Interesting, I thought RallyNuts were using Geotraq? It has no ref in the regs to Sporttrax, but a complete guide and ref to Geotraq.Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
Thanks to anyone who has PM me, the messaging seems to be down for me this afternoon. Hope its resolved later.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunbeamti
Yes the PM's are down again, another tip for some stage info is onthepacenotes on sportity, pw is OTPN2024
Yeah strange one that. Geotraq seems to be more complex and although it uses satellites, they were blocking some issues at NW Stages on lack of phone signal. It just doesn’t seem to work very well from an outsider looking in. Plus you can’t view any tracking info before or after an event’s time. I distinctly remember it finishing on the RAC when there’d been a delay, and when I queried it on Facebook they insisted everything was fine and no problem at all……:rolleyes: Also high costs for any damage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunbeamti
I agree I found it a bit less informative on a Moble on the NW stages, not it as good as Sporttrax. Maybe a work in progress.Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
Looks to be battle on between Ingram and Pryce for the Rallynuts win.
The only reason i knew it was on Sporttraxx was that it was on the list of upcoming events, i see they have removed it from the list today on the app although it can still be viewed here;Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunbeamti
https://tracking.sporttraxx.com/race...ts-2024/map2d/
I don’t agree that “a work in progress” should be allowed in rallying. Same with the terrible BRC coverage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunbeamti
Prove it works, prove you can do the job and then get chosen to earn lots of money. You wouldn’t get away with it in any other industry.
I watch an F1 photographer on YouTube who constantly gets asked “can I be your assistant and learn to take F1 photos?”. He says that you should already know how to take the photos before you reach F1. That’s my point exactly.
At Rallynuts William Creighton on a charge with two stage wins and passes a slow Ingram for 2nd o/a.
Somewhat expected but still impressive win for Osian Pryce on Rallynuts. Really happy for him after a tough close season and misfortune on the NW Stages.
Creighton being 2nd again is amazing by this lad. His stage wins were maybe due to Pryce going steady and Ingram's Polo struggling in the slippery conditions but still a great confidence boost.
Ingram thought the Polo wasnt as suited as on dry fast conditions and cant wait to get his new GR Yaris for Rd3.
Looks like a great Championship battle is developing as we hoped.
Only just noticed this: the Woodpecker is moving to a Newtown/Sweet Lamb base this year, so could out watching the cars in Hafren again later this year.
https://www.woodpecker-rally.co.uk/p...e-up-for-2024/
Using some of the stages as seen in Saturday's Severn Valley.Quote:
Originally Posted by HKSjbg
In years past the Rallynuts/Severn Valley/ Kerridge/ Mutiny used the stages around Crychan, Halfway, Tywi, Radnor........And it was in late May/ early June; I never heard the reason for the date change, or the change of forests.
Hopefully that will be day two’s itinerary for the Severn Valley next year ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
Ingram still leads the BRC after Rd2..
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLN_cVhX...jpg&name=small
Yes, a two day gravel event is a pipe dream.......Quote:
Originally Posted by HKSjbg
RACMC are pulling it off this November…Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
Nice to see the Appleby TR7 V8 making progress at the weekend with Miggins at the wheel. Exciting prospect for the Manx.
Yes, I meant BRC...and running Saturday/ Sunday. Not Friday night/ Saturday like Cambrian & Trackrod have done.Quote:
Originally Posted by HKSjbg
Well I think for once the new BRC season has lived up to the hype - we couldn’t reasonably expect much better than a former ERC champion and last year’s JWRC champion, among other high calibre entrants.
And everybody seemed happy enough doing 100 forestry kilometres last weekend so it might not be out of the realms of possibility that next year or the year after there could be at least one 2-day BRC gravel round. As this year has already proved doing more than 70km clubman rallies was always plausible, just so long as there was good promotional benefit in the BRC for the competitors to be interested
Can anyone tell me how Ingram managed to start 4th on the road with out penalty?
Seems unfair if road position tactics can be played, with out time penaltys?
Yeah, it's going really well - and one hopes everybody keeps doing the full series; and not pulling out when they can't win the series.Quote:
Originally Posted by HKSjbg
As for promotion, we just need them to put the live end of stage stuff on You Tube; I can't fathom why it's Facebook only.......It's 2024, not 2014.
There was 15 minutes of penalty free lateness between Main Controls.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmac
This is always an option for non international events, but most usually employed if there’s fresh snow.
Have seen some do this if very very foggy in the hope of catching and following lights of car ahead, or just mind games with close competition behind they could think you’ve had a problem and back off…
All part of fair competition :)
Happy doing 100km for the entry fee of a 70km event. The organisers added 30km for free to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the event. Would there have been as many entries if the full entry fee had been charged?Quote:
Originally Posted by HKSjbg
He posted today that he did some gravel driving tuition with Jo's Verstappen before the Rallynuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by the sniper
He didnt gain anything anyway as he was slower as the rally went on. The muddy 'line' created was more slippery than the gravel and the Polo R5 didnt have traction of the more modern Rally2 cars.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmac
If it’s all down to the entry fee then surely it is sustainable to keep it at 100ish km? One would assume the organisers would be making a loss by not increasing the entry fee, yet this year’s event had 180 entries compared to 119 last year and 139 the year before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Boyd
I would also assume that although getting more entry fees coming in, that with 140 finishers there is a bit of an increase in the cost of repairing the roads. But still, with 61 more entries than last that would cover a lot of the extra cost involved in this year’s running of the event?
It’s not quite as simple as that. It was a round of all of the top UK championships, that’s the main reason entries were so high. Remember that BRC chops and changed their calendar on a whim the last few years.Quote:
Originally Posted by HKSjbg
Extra first usage costs - not sure of the figure, maybe £900/mile?
Extra 2nd usage costs - again maybe £650/mike or something?
Recce is an extra cost.
Extra permit fees per car is maybe a few hundred extra?
But then you have extra costs like rescue crews, doctors, signage, fuel/car costs for officials, etc.
If it was sustainable, every event would be doing it. All the details I’ve seen was saying it was specific to being the 50th year of the event. I can’t see it being much option in the future or other events, most will make a very modest small profit which will need to tide them over in leaner years.
https://britishrallychampionship.co....the-challenge/ Yeah yeah yeah heard it all before sting in the tail longer more challenging compact route etc
A shame it seems there will be no Penmachno.....And if they want a proper sting in the tail, how about linking Alwen & Brenig, as seen on RallyGB in 2018? Might need a road closure, which is why it doesn't happen.
Sounds like a good route to me, they were unfortunate last year to have the use of Alwen withdrawn last minute.
Plenty of possible stage configurations within Clocaenog/Brenig, the drivers enjoy Alwen, and a single run through Elsi prevents the road cutting up too much.
I don't see much point in linking up Brenig/Alwen, additional cost/admin required for the road closure seems unnecessary when they can run a long stage through Clocaenog/Brenig.
They linked Alwen/Brenig a few years ago, was a pretty nice jump over crossroads.
Penmachno is a horrible rough stage, always causes loads of retirements, plus they used a road closure to link both sides of it.