[WRC] Wales Rally GB 2019

[NielsH]

Also brilliant. Except for last photo. Too much nature. (N.O.T.´s accepted professional rallyphoto rules...)

Hahaha, hopefully most photos comply with the N.O.T.´s accepted professional rallyphoto rules ;-)

[Mirek]

The only problem with this is the difference in their two cars. It's generally accepted that Tanak's Toyota is the best and Ogier's Citroen the worst...

No, it's not a problem.

[Mirek]

Was it here? Kopecký's accident. Spectators don't seem to bother to help: https://www.facebook.com/ryan.owenda...3814569098653/

[meh]

In Estonian media there are some weird pieces of "news" that Ogier was criticizing police activity during Rally GB and Tänak also commented that police wanted to do "example shooting on one driver".

As Estonian media usually does not produce any content theirself, the question is, from where they got it and what is the actual news?

[meh]

Was it here? Kopecký's accident. Spectators don't seem to bother to help: https://www.facebook.com/ryan.owenda...3814569098653/

Hard to understand the "rally fan" mindset in this case. Before next year Rally GB visitors should watch some videos from Finnish national rallies - there car can not even land properly when it's already carried out from wherever.

[EstWRC]

In Estonian media there are some weird pieces of "news" that Ogier was criticizing police activity during Rally GB and Tänak also commented that police wanted to do "example shooting on one driver".

As Estonian media usually does not produce any content theirself, the question is, from where they got it and what is the actual news?

taken from press conference, i posted the link yesterday in this thread

[AnttiL]

The only problem with this is the difference in their two cars. It's generally accepted that Tanak's Toyota is the best and Ogier's Citroen the worst...

Any motorsport race or championship title is never won by the driver alone, unless it's a one make series. It's always both man and machine that need to be winning. You could also argue that Ogier was in the best car for his four first titles.

[gorganl2000]

The only problem with this is the difference in their two cars. It's generally accepted that Tanak's Toyota is the best and Ogier's Citroen the worst...

i really don't think the differences between the cars are that significant anymore. It seems to be more based on the drivers/set up for each specific rally now. Yes, each manufacturer car still has its own slight challenges (Toyota reliability, Citroen handling, Hyundai speed) but for the most part each driver/car package among the top three seems to be optimized as their performances are usually quite close during many of the rallies. And even with the other drivers/cars combinations those have been also relatively competitive amongst themselves, sometimes even challenging/beating the top three.

[Indreq]

taken from press conference, i posted the link yesterday in this thread

Thats estonian press for you. As articles about Tänak get generally more clicks than any other topic, they are milking it dry. Often when Tänak says two sentences, two separate articles are produced. And then third as opinion piece with journalists comments added. I am sure they continue this for quite few days before they run out of things to write about Rally GB, then "regular" newsfeed is restored - speculations about contract, counting days until next something (test, rally, whatever "event" where Tänak or any of his competitors is involved), new interpretations of whatever Mäkinen, Wilson or some other rally-related person has said or thought (oftern badly translated or misquoted) etc etc. Quite annoying.

[Mintexmemory]

Moving the event to NI is not dependent on the NI government (or lack of it) much as The Open Championship wasn't.

Slight difference in sponsorship and worldwide TV rights, The Open is completely self-financing and doesn't need hand-outs.