[WRC] News & rumours (part III)

[PLuto]

Some yes, but I don't see how this particular opinion is crazy?

I thought of the exactly same thing when I heard the news. Anyone can go and buy team (fan) clothing and after that go onto stage and show split board to crew from competing team. After that it is "word against word" – how would this be policed? I would like to believe that there are no actors in our sport who would even thinkin playing dirty like this but you never know.

Yes, I agree. But for sure they must make the regulation and penalties clear, that somebody from another team/fan/journalist cannot make problems...

[Mirek]

Proving is not a problem, all (works) cars have on-board cameras that record every second of the stage. If you meant proving the existence of the pit board. Then again, how to prove it was genuine and not a ploy. Or instead of a pit board with a time on it, two guys with green shirts means "go faster" and one with red shirt means "go steady".

I think that You are going too far. I bet nobody will bother with hunting people with some boards around the stage. That system is quite highly unreliable and if they want to make the afford, be it, it's no big deal. It doesn't work in the dark, in the dust, in the rain, in the fog. It requires good information for the man with the board which is possible only in some places of the stages, it requires a lot of people. In the end it doesn't change that much in my opinion. Some teams used it in IRC where splits were forbidden and it didn't prevent cases when some driver was able to make tens of seconds in one stage by a sudden crazy attack (in most extreme case it was over a minute in one stage).

[makinen_fan]

Can anyone explain what exactly is meant by this. I cant really see the point of this.
- It is clarified that a car which has not started from the start line within 20 seconds will be considered as retired and will be able to restart under Rally 2 on the subsequent day.

Does this mean if the car stalls on the start line and fail to start within 20s the crew will retire? Also someone this year failed to start on the correct minute waiting for next one (Sordo ??) and then realised it, does it mean they would have been retired?

[nafpaktos]

It says start line so i understand it means if the engine stalls.

[tommeke_B]

It means that when the car already stands at the start line it must leave the place in twenty seconds otherwise game over. I think this rule already existed but the limit time was bigger - maybe one minute (?)

It used to be 30 seconds. I remember once when a driver had a mechanical problem they went out quickly and pushed the car away from the start-line, to retire soon after...

[makinen_fan]

It used to be 30 seconds. I remember once when a driver had a mechanical problem they went out quickly and pushed the car away from the start-line, to retire soon after...

thanks Tom and Mirek. I never realised such a rule existed

[Jack4688`]

Capito really has lost his marbles. Why would someone from his team tell a Hyundai driver what his split times are?

[tommeke_B]

Capito really has lost his marbles. Why would someone from his team tell a Hyundai driver what his split times are?

Sometimes I'm still wondering... Are the journalists so stupid that they don't understand Capito's sarcasm and jokes? Or is he really that much of an idiot?

[Jack4688`]

Sometimes I'm still wondering... Are the journalists so stupid that they don't understand Capito's sarcasm and jokes? Or is he really that much of an idiot?

I didn't think of that! It's hard to convey sarcasm in text... but I'll go on the assumption that he's ready to be put in a home

[stefanvv]

Sometimes I'm still wondering... Are the journalists so stupid that they don't understand Capito's sarcasm and jokes? Or is he really that much of an idiot?

Of course it is sarcasm.... probably apart from Rally Deutchland....