[WRC] Safari Rally Kenya 2021

[EstWRC]

Ott just said in the mediazone that he was at 60% today

[andyone]

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I agree with Tanak, only the long middle stage today felt like like a safari stage. The other two were too narrow, slow and in the forest (plus very bad fesh-fesh !)

[dimviii]

Yeah, and the jump from Monte Lerno

are you sure?

[dimviii]

thats a nice one

[dimviii]

At points it was impossible for Rovanperä to see, and that was ultimately what led to his retirement. Driving blind, his Yaris WRC veered off the line and got stuck next to the road.

https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/neuvi...-friday-stage/

[mknight]

Exactly. And how do you think any emergency cars would get to the cars here in those conditions?

https://www.ewrc-results.com/media/6...nya-2021/3338/

Completely fine with normal 4x4 that "everyone" drives there.
If you noticed the pickup that pulled Rovanpera out had absolutely no problems with it, didn't even look like any wheelspin.
That was some modern pickup (I think Nissan Navara) with normal tires.

Also at low speed it's no problem to drive outside of the ruts.

[AnttiL]

Teams will learn from this. Turkey 2018 was a car breaker and I think it wasn't as bad in following years

Michele Mouton demanded Turkey route to be rougher in FIA pre-event check. Then the roughest part took Östberg and Evans at the beginning of the rally. That part wasn’t used anymore in the next years.

[AnttiL]

But just last year we had stages cancelled in monza because there was snow on the road.

Oh please shut up about that and go read bluuford’s post in the Monza thread.

[AnttiL]

Exactly. And how do you think any emergency cars would get to the cars here in those conditions?

https://www.ewrc-results.com/media/6...nya-2021/3338/

They can just drive around the soft part. And the Kenyan emergency vehicles are different than on an Italian village.