Rally Sweden 2015

[COD]

Only shaking the cars down before events, not full blown stage testing. His main 'issue' in Sweden were the pacenotes, since he's not yet used to the speed of the car. That should come with experience though.

If you are a proffesional and have good pacenotesystem, then they should be good for any car. The road is the same, and that is what the pacenotes describe!

[MartijnS]

There is a difference if you write pacenotes when you are used to the car you drive. You know how fast you arrive and can take a corner only by expericene. If you never did a stage before in a WRC it seems logical to me that its difficult to write the correct notes at the recce...

[A FONDO]

Depends on your pacenote system. If it is primitive, like "5 left, medium right" then you'll be in trouble. If you describe angles of corners and distance between them then it's all up to your talent to adjuct the speeds.

[EightGear]

Kevin uses a mix I believe. Things like 'left 10 round' but also 'slight right' and even 'á fond.' That's when you will be in trouble indeed, if you don't know the speed of the car you can't know if a corner is flat or not. You'll need more experience to judge that during recce.

[jparker]

After watching all nice videos posted here, I have noticed something different this year.
Too many OFFs after back side of the car touching the snowbank, bouncing from it, and then front end dive.
Was that because of the hard snowbanks, or it's something else?

[bluuford]

After watching all nice videos posted here, I have noticed something different this year.
Too many OFFs after back side of the car touching the snowbank, bouncing from it, and then front end dive.
Was that because of the hard snowbanks, or it's something else?

Hi, I am back from extremely difficult marathon. Due to some recent painkillers treatment (after taking out wisdom tooth) I had no power, but luckily I had a lot of will that helped me to complete in 5h and 19 min :-) And I can see that it has been very, very interesting end of rally!
The first I will give you a short answer.
It was classical overdriving + relatively soft snow. Temperature was close to zero and that made snow soft and sucked cars in when they were overdriving. Why so much overdrive? Due to little + degrees, the top layer of ice was softer and spikes of the first cars broke that ice and for the following cars the road was covered by slush-broken ice particles that made it difficult for the spikes to reach to the solid ice and get traction. Now you can imagine that uder you tyre, there is loose ice particles and under the loose particles there is more solid ice.. that is very slippery and that makes cars slide wide.

Ogier was very lucky to loose such a little time, but the luck is always on the winners side;-)
Mikkelsen was also very lucky to have so many professional spectators around his off-road scene. They saved podium for him.

Latvala, Meeke and Ostberg were extremely dissapointing. They ruined my pickems.. totally :-P
Ford boys did maximum that was possible from their starting position and with their cars. Nearly perfect rally from them apart from slight mistake by Elfin.

I have nothing against Ogier but this moaning being first on the road is a bit too much. It was very clear advantage on the first passes for him and little disadvantage on the second passes. Can someone tell him to find a new topic to speak at the end of stage? maybe about the spectators on the stage or nice scenery or about his wife... :-P

And finally. Meeke is a good driver but I think that he needs some treatment by psyhologist. He has had bigger or smaller crashes during last four rallies (Spain, off road and double puncture, GB - off road and punctures, Monte - off road, Sweden - off road and many mistakes). He needs to calm down.

[makinen_fan]

Pickems are processed now. Have a look in the dedicated thread. Nobody predicted Ogier, Neuvile as top 2!

[dimviii]

Colins Crest ‏@ColinsCrest_
The top 10 results of the Colins Crest Award 2015!Speed facts from @OfficialWRC . Can't wait until next year!

[makinen_fan]

Prokop had a €2000 penalty for having too short wheelbase. I didn't know that setup has such a big influence on wheelbase and make it illegal.
http://www.rallysweden.com/wp-conten...sion-No-10.pdf

[Antony Warmbold]

Prokop had a €2000 penalty for having too short wheelbase. I didn't know that setup has such a big influence on wheelbase and make it illegal.
http://www.rallysweden.com/wp-conten...sion-No-10.pdf

First time I see that as well !