[WRC] Croatia Rally 2023

[EstWRC]

Rallyechrono vid

https://youtu.be/t7VIOSrytOY

[dimviii]

De Villers video
watch at 3,35 same pass from fabia,c3,i20
wish we had more footage such this from wrc cars too.
https://youtu.be/yumirQ1-6Pc

[dimviii]

https://youtu.be/GRWOdFVrPT0

[bt52b]

What the f were these morons doing? Fighting inside a live stage and ignoring marshalls and police? I hope they spend some time in jail for their stupidity. That could have ended very very badly.

Seen a report that Police are dealing with them

[gaudino69]

back from Croatia, dry roads, people everywhere and incredible pilots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRWOdFVrPT0

[the sniper]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qooiYTJeAns&feature=share


Very bad look

Anyone with another link? WRC Promoter claimed/erased it...

[MartijnS]

https://youtu.be/xDAck1Za3w8

[sinepikohv]

What is this mythical "Taka that impressed us all last year" that comentators keep talking about?

Overall I think that All Live was good this weekend. I really enjoyed seeing a lot of WRC2 cars, even the gentleman driver's!

But what Kras referred to is something that irritates me immensely. I'm not saying that Taka is a worthless driver or that he shouldn't be driving, but the All Live crew is not objective. I mean, according to them, everyone is good and fast and reliable and sometimes the car breaks down but not too often.

But that's BS and I'm sure they know it too. Let's take Taka as an example: yes, he has two podiums that came with smart drives. But he is not fast. On rallies that should feel like home to him (Finland, Sweden and Estonia) he hasn't been able to challenge for the podium. So I'm sorry, but in terms of Rally1 cars he is not fast, he is bang on average.

And I understand why the All Live crew says those safe things. I think that rallying does not need hot takes from the NBA, where clowns say X, Y and Z, because the rally fans do not need this, we have Luke Barry for that. But rallying does need to be objective and I don't find there's any harm in admitting the truth. It's not like NOT (the user here, to be exact) will be on air and say that Taka should build regular Toyota's in a factory rather than killing his enjoyment of watching a WRC event. There's nothing wrong in saying that Taka is consistent both in terms of pace and positions. But the word "impress" is too strong for him overall, I think.

[AnttiL]

I think Taka impressed by being a consistent finisher and being third in the points after Portugal. He finished in top 8 in all rallies of 2022 except NZ where he went off (also went off in Monte but lost only so little time that finished 8th).

Also remember that these people are working for WRC Promoter and teams are paying a big money to be a part of the series. They cannot say much negative things. Finally it's a part of British politeness.

[Kras]

https://youtu.be/xDAck1Za3w8

This is a problem that isn't specific to WRC. It is similar in other small communities. Skateboarding, for example, suffers from the same toxic positivity. Everything is great, pros are all gnarly, innovative, awesome, can do no wrong.

I think it's due to a combination of 2 factors:
1. everyone knows eachother and is too close to make and objective judgement. Either out of courtesy or out of fear of conflict
2. Competitors and teams hold too much power and getting in a conflict with them would make future coverage har or impossible.

It seems to be that there is such a power disbalance in WRC that FIA and the promoter have to tiptoe around teams out of fear of losing them.