Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[Fast Eddie WRC]

I heard an interesting discussion on a recent podcast about Toyota vs Hyundai and their different driver strategies.

Hyundai are going with their 'driver rotation' system again, bringing in a different 3rd driver according to the rally; whereas Toyota are keeping the same 3 drivers on every round.

So who will have advantage this year, especially now that Toyota has an arguably stronger full-time line-up than in 2019 ? Is it better to rotate drivers for their best events, or is using the same driver's on all rounds and their extra seat-time going to pay off ?

https://www.dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/w...ised-eyebrows/

[deephouse]

Meeke and Marshall for Rally Whangarei/ NZ in Mazda 2 AP4

http://nzrallychamps.co.nz/wrc-star-...UiGqar0WyqzMb8

“It seems,” he told DirtFish, “that Tommi has more free time to think about my drivers than I have free time to think about his comments.”

Hahaha what a legend

[dimviii]

nice video about the 205t 16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

[pantealex]

If we count all points collected with each brand after 3 rallies:
(based on overall Top 10)

Toyota 150 (49+54+47)
Hyundai 91 (33+33+25)
Ford 47 (16+14+17)
Skoda 8 (0+0+8)
Citroen 7 (3+0+4)

Total 303 (101+101+101)
(MC+SWE+MEX)

[AndyRAC]

Quick question to any people out there who may know - how many of the WRC drivers use a personal simulation rig? Following a weekend of watching virtual motorsport, some were quite good (IMSA Sebring, VLN, etc) there were/are plenty of drivers who use it as a tool of the trade. Now, we know rallying is different, but sims like iRacing/ rFactor2 are pretty serious. The reason I ask is I saw Craig Breen on instagram going to collect his system.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Any youngsters want to see what Malcolm Wilson used to be like check out this vid from the 1984 RAC Rally:

https://youtu.be/N2lEZvLUcYQ at 3.40 in.

[SubaruNorway]

Benjamin Ward from the forum will be doing a live skype interview with Nicky Grist tomorrow the 25th at 16:00 CET on his FB page, you can also send your questions in.

https://www.facebook.com/benjaminwar...83932168331607

[wyler]

Quick question to any people out there who may know - how many of the WRC drivers use a personal simulation rig? Following a weekend of watching virtual motorsport, some were quite good (IMSA Sebring, VLN, etc) there were/are plenty of drivers who use it as a tool of the trade. Now, we know rallying is different, but sims like iRacing/ rFactor2 are pretty serious. The reason I ask is I saw Craig Breen on instagram going to collect his system.

https://www.dirtfish.com/rally/solbe...lying-contest/

[doubled1978]

Podcast/Interview between Chris Harris and Nicky Grist, it’s long but there are some good stories in there...

https://youtu.be/9OkI6-GK4fU

[SubaruNorway]

Interview with Nicky Grist live on skype if you missed it earlier!
https://www.facebook.com/benjaminwar...8177516123922/