Barum Czech Rally Zlin 2021

[Mirek]

Onboard of Kopecký from the last stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r9soRkVsDE

[Mirek]

Plenty of big moments or wild passes in every video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxq-ipFKJXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg5IhwnQmVo

Plus some good news. Dominik Stříteský was released from hospital where he was due to concussion.

[Lead]

Mikkelsen's video blog about Barum rally is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWq7s-ZiyLY

[Jarek Z]

Guys, this is electric Corsa. Do you agree with the opinion of the spectator about this car?

https://scontent.fktw1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...f9&oe=6133C29D

[Mirek]

The crowds on the city stage were booing on the electric cars.

One video for dimviii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwiWHsYs14Y

Pech retired because of cracked engine crankshaft. Rather unusual technical problem.

[dimviii]

The crowds on the city stage were booing on the electric cars.

One video for dimviii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwiWHsYs14Y

Pech retired because of cracked engine crankshaft. Rather unusual technical problem.

amazing video! But NOT even a hairpin?

[er88]

Mikkelsen's big mouth has set the expectations too high for himself. This is a quote from an interview with Dirtfish at the start of the season:


So far in WRC2 he has 2 wins (one where you can say he was dominating, Monte Carlo) on 5 events. In ERC he has 0 wins out of 4 events. He's not doing bad, but he's nowhere near what he said he wanted to do, despite being in the best position of all drivers competing in the same class.

Exactly. I wasn't saying he had a bad event or the like, just that I'm not that impressed considering the standard expected. And I've had that feeling most of the year.

Mikkelsen's comments at the start of the year could be purely construed as arrogant, but imo it's also just a reflection on what he felt he needed to do this year - to get back to a fully paid manufacturer drive. Winning the ERC or WRC2 in this manner isn't going to hugely impress anyone - especially for a driver who has already had 4/5yrs in championship winning teams. It was the same with Ostberg last year. Show you're much better in terms of speed AND consistency against all the R5 drivers, and he probably would have already been signed up.

Look at Lappi, dominated in Artic and cruised to a win in a Portugal and now looks locked into Toyota next year.

No point trying to gloss over Mikkelsen's season or change the goalposts, because he was the one who made them.

Still really hope we see him getting a full season at Msport over Greensmith though. And if that's still a possibility in Malcolm's eyes, then get Mikkelsen in that Puma now to take over testing from Matt Wilson......

[PLuto]

Huttunen and Pajari out. Barum is just too difficult for Finnish drivers. Only Rovanperä would be good enough, but has never competed there. Remember that he was able to beat Kopecky in Bohemia...

There were good finish drivers who were able to fight for win here. And two of them also won - Mikael Sundström and Juho Hänninen.

[PLuto]

Daniel Polasek is learning his codriver how to do finswimming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcvUgD3-l9c

[PLuto]

Look at Lappi, dominated in Artic and cruised to a win in a Portugal and now looks locked into Toyota next year.

He is not locked there because of results in Arctic and Portugal...