WRC Rally Sweden 2020

Tomi Tuominen says now that Latvala went home https://twitter.com/T_Tuominen/statu...28121981685760

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Originally Posted by mknight

I was here:
https://kart.finn.no/?lng=12.26126&l...Brukerdefinert
(so after the "red house" hairpin).

Ice started right in the braking area and went until before the next junction. Thought people will have issues with the ice start and sunshine in the eyes right in the turn, but everyone was carefull.
Dunno where Latvala spun, it wasn't easy to hear from my spot and his onboard is not up yet.

As I said he looked terrible trough the ice corner with double braking and double-turn in.

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Ah. I was righe before the next hairpin, at the end of the fast area. Latvala spun 2 corners after that hairpin.

I was surprised about how well the ice held through the red house hairpin and out of it. The stage would've held two runs today and prob. one more tomorrow!

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Originally Posted by AnttiL

Tomi Tuominen says now that Latvala went home https://twitter.com/T_Tuominen/statu...28121981685760

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Of course BIG disappointment for him.

We should all feel very sorry for him.

70% discount on hiring that Toyota...?

Andolfi rolled on the fast right hander near the end of Torsby Sprint, replay shown at the end of the AllLive coverage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYL26I__-E

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Originally Posted by Myrvold

Ah. I was righe before the next hairpin, at the end of the fast area. Latvala spun 2 corners after that hairpin.

I was surprised about how well the ice held through the red house hairpin and out of it. The stage would've held two runs today and prob. one more tomorrow!

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I went to your place first and then changed my mind. At my spot I could see the flat out corner on the straight which was cool. But there indeed was too much (snow) dust from WRCs to see the following 2 ice corners. R5s and slower you could see fine.

And yeah in the whole area the ice and gravel barely had any scratches in them after whole field passed. I drove the first section of the stage between spectator area 1 and 2 afterwards and that one had some nasty ice-ruts, but still should be no problem to run it tomorrow and could have been driven one more time today. But I get the organizers can't change around so much on short notice.

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Originally Posted by bennizw

Jon Armstrong accident: https://parcferme.no/video-arkiv/her...9pqi9gjGz-KvmI

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Holy cow, hate to see side-impacts, glad that they are 'okay' and getting checks at the hospital. https://twitter.com/JonArmstrong84/s...97019531366405

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Originally Posted by EstWRC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYL26I__-E

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This video is not very artistic but actually very good as it is exactly the same pass for all drivers/cars it is easier to compare them.

Fiesta WRC looks a little ponderous in direction changes compared to the others IMO.

Hyundai R5 pretty impressive now, new Fiesta R5 still looks/sounds a little down on power to me (or maybe it's the gearing?) Work to do for M-Sport anyway it seems judging by stage times alone.

M-Sport's Rich Millener interview
https://youtu.be/KAIGzQT69dI

"We are satisfied with our morning, we managed as best we could. The result is not what we expected ... but we expected it. Our position as an opener is a disadvantage, especially on the part "earth". Each car is a little faster than the previous one. We can't do better than what we did. We have to settle for the position, but we can be satisfied with the loop made this morning ", the Belgian explained to our microphone this afternoon.

"It was a lot colder than expected so the tires did not overheat. The studs held up more or less. There is a special today and we will not start first normally. We must stay focused on Ogier. just behind us, its position on the road is more or less equivalent. The gap is small, we will try to get the five seconds missing. It will be better tomorrow ... ", also analyzed the Hyundai driver.
https://www.rtbf.be/sport/moteurs/ra...-KGZhYPPjrvxtI