WRC Promotional event Shell Helix Rally Estonia

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Gryazin fast again and spectacular to watch.

Solberg a bit steadier with having a good lead.

[mknight]

SS8 average 138.8 km/h

[EstWRC]

SS8 average 138.8 km/h

Thant’s stage the I mentioned before not believing what I saw.

Incredible

[Thousandlakes]

Long time I havent posted here anything. But have to say what a RALLY. Very fast and smooth roads. Many big jumps also. Everything what real rallyfan needs. Wrc tv is doing good job aswell. This rally belong to WRC calendar. Top level action.

And look at those two r5 youngsters. Just under 1.5sec/km slower than Tänak. Very Impressive. New Fiesta r5 still in progress.

Just watched Gryazins jump. That was something. Lucky escape

[Barreis]

Solberg jr is future

[Allez Andruet]

Alright, so can we all now agree that Tänak is the baddest man on the planet. Period. I'm starting to hope that instead of M-Sport or TGR he would switch to WRC2 just to keep the main class competitive. Finland will be absolute murder, mark my words.

And Solberg... I'm somewhat lost for words. Up until now he was just a son of ex-world champ who did rallies in funny places like Latvia and the US. But boy oh boy can he drive!

[Tarmop]

Not that i don`t agree....but lets wait for Rally Finland first, this is Tänak`s home-event and also Yaris` "second" home event.

Too bad, they did`t show trucks at all.

Oh, and mknight...

Apart from the obvious testing unknowns I think we see a repeat of what has been normal on most gravel rallies this year.

In first pass with smooth road Toyota's are much faster, followed by Fiestas, then on second pass with more rutted road (and more mechanical grip) it's much closer. Lappi even mentioned this already.

[mknight]

Alright, so can we all now agree that Tänak is the baddest man on the planet. Period. I'm starting to hope that instead of M-Sport or TGR he would switch to WRC2 just to keep the main class competitive. Finland will be absolute murder, mark my words.

We can definitely agree that you are good at exaggerating.

[Allez Andruet]

We can definitely agree that you are good at exaggerating.

I'll take that as a compliment.

[mknight]

Solberg jr is future

He is impressive here.

Then again this is the kind of roads he drives since starting with R5. WRC runs on many different road types. This is the first time I have seen his footage over more than a corner or two and it looks quite ragged to me. Some corners great but some with tons of corrections and all over the place.

Progress so far is good though (after not that impressive R2 career). Hope he keeps it up, but I am just tired of the constant "XY is the next champion" shouting and think it often is counter-productive as it quickly can get into the heads of those young guys. They have not won anything... until they actually win it.