Thread: Rally di Roma Capitale 2018
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23rd July 2018, 12:20 #171
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In my opinion the level of competition in ERC is not that high. When watching Grzyb you just have to ask yourself questions about competition. I was spectating Grzyb during last three years of Rally Hustopece and his results are 5th, 10th and 5th. He isnīt slow, but he isnīt some kind of top driver in middle Europe region. And there is no progress in both style of driving seen by eyes and results on paper. This is just his level, which is OK, but how can he be TOP 3 in Europe?
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23rd July 2018, 12:46 #172
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23rd July 2018, 14:07 #173
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23rd July 2018, 14:33 #174
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Re Gryzb - experience and consistency counts for a lot, especially when you are competing against mostly young driver's...
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23rd July 2018, 15:53 #175
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I think the speed at the front (by which I mean Lukyanuk and Gryazin) is pretty good now.. you can't beat Basso and Andreucci at home if you are slow. But the field could do with more depth and consistency.
Ingram is probably the one who has shown the most promise outside of that considering his lack of experience.
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23rd July 2018, 16:00 #176
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Undoubtedly the times when Italian drivers were totally dominating events on their home soil are gone (for example look at the final results of Mille Miglia 2005: https://www.ewrc-results.com/final/6...0-miglia-2005/), but obviously you haven't looked close the results of Simone Cempedelli:
1st stage: already on fourth corner rear drive-shaft failure....lost more than ten seconds.
2nd stage: on the first proper stage he immiedately set the best stage time
3rd stage: lost 5 sec compare to Luky
4th stage: set equal stage time as Luky
5th stage: flat tyre
6st stage, flat tyre again, had to retire
On sunday Cempedelli was the fastest over all. So, I do not want to minimalize the pefect victory of Luky (after all I have put him on first place in my pickem!), but Cempedelli is showing already for the last two seasons great speed (he is eaisily the fastest compare to Ucci, Scandola, Crungola, Nucita...), however his finish arrivals are very rare.....for some retirements the reason is technique failure, but he is also very ''crash prone''.
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23rd July 2018, 16:02 #177
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All we can learn from your link of Mille Miglia '05 is that there were almost no foreign drivers, and from those, very few fast ones...
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23rd July 2018, 16:05 #178
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Campedelli was fast,but as Ucci said he is too much prone to crashes,broken rims,flat tyres etc.
Italian championship is not slow,they are still fast,just too many contenters for various reasons were out of the battle very early at this rally
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23rd July 2018, 19:37 #179
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23rd July 2018, 19:38 #180
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He retired in SS 3 - https://rally-base.com/crew-profile/...8&crewId=41069
Hahah, I put them both 6-7
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