Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2012

Hard to see from the photos but is that river crossing unmanned? Surely there would have to be marshals and a some sort of tow truck/tractor stationed there, can't be that hard to get a local farmer to help out.

Such river on the road is pretty good reason to cancel the stage :-) Remember that day before.. there was just dust!

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Originally Posted by Rallyper

Safety is first, of course. Setting speed right, yes I agree. But non the less it wasn´t easy today for anyone. Riverpasses was the crucial moment and was the part that decided the decision, I think.

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River pass was in a liason, that stage was already cancelled.

The decision was based on the destroyed surfaces that the last cars found on the first run. On the second run they could have a lot of troubles with almost everybody, not only the last ones. The stages and also liasions had many parts completely destroyed.

But there is still another question: Emergency rescue. If an 4x4 ambulance can't run on the stage, then there's no conditions to run the stage. And here was the case.

At the beggining i made a wrong judgement of this cancelation, but now after some calls already know what really happened on the first runs.

So, what? Ford received +15 minutes?

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Originally Posted by bluuford

Are you local? Local knowledge is very often very valuable, but unfortunately not always.
This time you might prove wrong. There is high possibility that tomorrow evening will be characterised by some very light isolated rainshowers.
Then there will be very heavy rain overnight and until Friday afernoon. The weather is little bit better in the afternoon and Saturday morning. It gets worse on Saturday evening again and improves by Sunday. Also the temperature drops to only .+10..+15 degrees for all the rainy days.

I remember the event 2001 when some cars got stuck on the stages. Rapid heavy rain after drought does not go quickly into the ground. It creates some small streams, mud holes etc.

So, who manages their 10 soft tires the best? .. is the winner :-)

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Originally Posted by Francis44

I value your information ofcourse, and I thank you for sharing it.

But I just dont believe it will rain that much, I just dont get that feeling from the weather. The weather changes very quickly here and for the last months forecasters have been wrong and wrong. That's perhaps why I dont "buy" there predictions as easily as I did before.

However I get the feeling that you are a bit of an expert in this area so I will believe you :D , I will take some jackets with me. However I am not 100% sure about heavy rain, not in the Algarve region I must say. It is very unlikely that we see a scenario like in 2001, very different carachter between the north and south.

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I hope you took many jackets :-P

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Originally Posted by uranium

So, what? Ford received +15 minutes?

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Guess at least Solberg should run ahead Sordo (am talking about classification, not starting order).

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Originally Posted by uranium

So, what? Ford received +15 minutes?

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Thanks to Sordos superb times their time loss is only: Solberg +7:35 Latvala 11:24 and Tänak 11:40
No penalties for the cancelled stages. Solberg is just 4 and half minutes behind 3rd place. So, podium is possible :-)

That should be todays final classification among top drivers:
http://www.wrc.com/results/2012/voda...wrc&stageno=10

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Originally Posted by bluuford

Thanks to Sordos superb times their time loss is only: Solberg +7:35 Latvala 11:24 and Tänak 11:40
No penalties for the cancelled stages. Solberg is just 4 and half minutes behind 3rd place. So, podium is possible :-)

That should be todays final classification among top drivers:
World Rally Championship - Results - Vodafone Rally de Portugal

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WEATHER conditions for tomorrow ? Could expect SS's to be Dry ? Wet ? Moody ? Flooded ?

Think its 7,35 on petter and 11.24 on jml. If, they are lucky!

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Originally Posted by Juha_Koo

Always the same story here with the stage cancellations due to weather...

They could easily compete out there. The main point of the cancellations is that emergency apparatus couldn't move around well enough. I don't want to be trapped in a crashed car while the ambulance and fire truck with normal tyres and maybe even FWD/RWD only are stuck in a mud. Could you take the responsibility? All the cr*p about rallying not being "man" enough is utter BS, even an R2 ride in those conditions would make 80% of you sh*t your pants. Peace out, bros. :up:

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