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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
    Solbeg pushing obviously too much...
    Without knowing, I am guessing the power stage was the first one he was allowed to go 100%.

    And since this was only a rally to show potential, but get to the end to get ss km in a WRCar.
    Letting him go max on one stage is smart, he had little to loose, having crossed all boxes before the Power Stage.

    That he went over the limit several times, and in the end one time too much, is part of the learning curve.
    He was lucky, and only lost a place to Taka, saw the finish line, and had a absolute ball the whole weekend!

    And Oliver is as Petter was, a PR master!

    Next rally will be in a R5 and then hopefully in a Rally2. Maybe he will get 1 or 2 more rallies in the top class this year, lets see!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sulland View Post
    Without knowing, I am guessing the power stage was the first one he was allowed to go 100%.

    And since this was only a rally to show potential, but get to the end to get ss km in a WRCar.
    Letting him go max on one stage is smart, he had little to loose, having crossed all boxes before the Power Stage.

    That he went over the limit several times, and in the end one time too much, is part of the learning curve.
    He was lucky, and only lost a place to Taka, saw the finish line, and had a absolute ball the whole weekend!

    And Oliver is as Petter was, a PR master!

    Next rally will be in a R5 and then hopefully in a Rally2. Maybe he will get 1 or 2 more rallies in the top class this year, lets see!
    I post that comment when he had a big moment on the heli view. It was shortly before he went off. That was just a coincidence.
    Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump

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    Quote Originally Posted by mknight View Post
    The one thing missing here was a bit more variety in stages, the first stage on saturday had slightly different character, but rest were kind of all very similar.
    In Sweden around Torsby you had the more narrower and twisty stages on Friday with often more snow, then the more jumpy and wide ones in Sweden and in between superspecial with diferent characters.

    Dunno how easy it is to get a different character in the area and for sure they didn't do super specials with COVID this year.
    The event was put together in a very short time. There are more roads in the area, but no time to include those in such short notice. But like many here said, unlikely that Finland will have regulary two events

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    Quote Originally Posted by meh View Post
    Few random takeaways from Tänak's interview to Estonian media (https://sport.delfi.ee/news/auto/wrc...?id=92701539):
    * after winter rally in Estonia Tänak told to manegemtn/engineers that they don't have car to fight for the win in Lapland
    * pushed a lot of engineers for 2 weeks
    * in PowerStage he didn't have enough confidence and will to take extra risks to find extra 2 seconds for fighting for powerstage win
    kind of same comments in english for dirtfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWySvlqu6UQ

    they tried as late as shakedown some new things and those worked
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    Did anyone notice what was going in the corner of the eye of Teemu Suninen ? Bugged me everytime I saw it.

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    Finland have the capacity to organize two rallies per season, if they are allowed. No doubt.

    They have many upsides. Same people doing events. Clear structure on everything needed, weather it is in Rovaniemi or Jyväskylä. Efficient work with people knowing how rallies should be organized.

    And I have inside info they have no problems doing it twice a year.
    "Reis vas pät pat kaar vas kut"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sulland View Post
    Without knowing, I am guessing the power stage was the first one he was allowed to go 100%.
    just to mention the last stage at Monte.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rallyper View Post
    Finland have the capacity to organize two rallies per season, if they are allowed. No doubt.

    They have many upsides. Same people doing events. Clear structure on everything needed, weather it is in Rovaniemi or Jyväskylä. Efficient work with people knowing how rallies should be organized.

    And I have inside info they have no problems doing it twice a year.
    Marketing-wise it's a nogo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dimviii View Post
    just to mention the last stage at Monte.
    What those two have in common is that he went off both times...maybe better to drive to finish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rallyper View Post
    Finland have the capacity to organize two rallies per season, if they are allowed. No doubt.

    They have many upsides. Same people doing events. Clear structure on everything needed, weather it is in Rovaniemi or Jyväskylä. Efficient work with people knowing how rallies should be organized.

    And I have inside info they have no problems doing it twice a year.
    It's WORLD championship. They can't have two rallies in a country with such a small car market moreover when one is in so remote place. Now there's covid but normally they need to get thousands of fans there somehow.
    Last edited by Mirek; 28th February 2021 at 18:43.
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