Rally Estonia 2015

[Tinke1979]

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

Here is my video from the rally. Including speed, action and mistakes.. + Lukyanuk´s short interview before 3 last stages

[sindroms]

We spectated stages nr 3.. We shortly met forumer Garais (I think it is his forum name), he moved to service to meet Pluto ;-)

I don't wonder about that mess regarding to "Garais". In our company was user garais22 (who is writing for Latvia biggest autosport site go4speed.lv) and guy with nickname Garais ("tall one") in real-life

Rally Estonia was great for us as usual. Thanks to bluuford we had a best available maps, so we avoid from 2km walking to SS3 spot (this blind downhill righthander). Estonian guys on N4 cars were spectacular while Lukyanuk was very cautious there. Eurosport cameraman received our applause after Plangi's gravel shower on him.
We moved to service park after SS3. There were no cars yet and best part was to taste yogurts from Kruuda team
SS7 was our next. It had to take quiet a lot navigations works to get there. But leading co-driver sindroms proved himself once again Spot was even better than in video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1X...ature=youtu.be 0:08 minute.
We did a service park once again then. It was very nice to meet PLuto finally.
SS9 access roads which looked quiet ok on maps, turned out tough to drive. So our company splitted. We took a walk about 1km and met bluufoords company once again. Long uphill righthander - right one place for Estonian N4 guys.
Second day was ordinary. We stayed in SS11/14 stage overnight. Uphill righthander, then downhill following by sharp lefthander and nice panoramic view in addition was our first choice. In second run just to change our spot - 300m straight. Ok, some kind of jump was there.

Opel suspension looks absolutely great - all Opels were driving like on rails. I was missing Estonian national championship a lot.
Not a lot to say anything else about drivers as bluuford did it absolutely perfect.

Our gallery - http://www.go4speed.lv/lv/photo/erc/...tonia-rallijs/

[bluuford]

Sorry, my memory on the names and Forum names is terrible :-( I hope you do not mind :-) And indeed, Opel boys were pushing like hell but the cars were very stable. Very good car!

[makinen_fan]

As Mirek pointed out the video is from 2014, but worth another view!

Amazing onboard with Lukyanuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUU1...ature=youtu.be

[Mirek]

That's from 2014 but it's still amazing

[bluuford]

Amazing onboard with Lukyanuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUU1...ature=youtu.be

Final words.. 197 km/h ;-)

[makinen_fan]

That's from 2014 but it's still amazing

Oops! I didn't notice that! I was carried away by what I was seeing!

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Watching the ES highlights there was quite a good view of Breen's car after he had retired. They were taking the front bumper off and it didnt look like that was much damaged. Then they showed the front close-up and all looked fine apart from a half crack on the sumpguard. The rest of the front end including the radiator, IC etc looked perfect.

So it appears that the oil pressure problem which ended his rally was just an 'internal' engine fault and not caused by some damage from a heavy landing...

"Towards the end of SS14, we started to lose oil pressure – something’s happened inside the engine and there is nothing we can do about it,” said Breen.

[dimviii]

if the sumpguard had a crack,maybe from landing pushed the sumptank,inside the sumptank is the oilpump.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

if the sumpguard had a crack,maybe from landing pushed the sumptank,inside the sumptank is the oilpump.

I suppose if the problem appeared pretty much straight after the heavy landing then maybe so... I just expected to see more damage if the landing was so bad.