Barum Czech Rally Zlin 2016

[Jeppe]

What the hell was he thinking? He went straight into the barrell

Exactly my thoughts. Very stupid mistake / misjudgement from Luky. He really spoiled his rally the worst way..

[gianni123]

Barum Czech Rally Zlin - 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3zoP95M7Ak

[RS]

Great that ERC are making full-stage onboards available.. eagerly awaiting some of Luky but here is SS10 with Kopecky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcgxRaVR8Pk

[Jarek Z]

Was this incredible accident of Botka from Saturday posted here?

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

Wow! Thanks for posting this video. I was away for the weekend and couldn't follow the rally. I'm reading the posts on the forum to catch up on the events in the rally. Botka was lucky there were no trees there!

[Jarek Z]

Not much to comment from me about the city stage but I have to comment again the Toyota R3. The car IS slow.

Is it? The end results is not that bad. Rossetti was second in ERC3 (just 17 seconds behind Ingram) and third in 2WD (1 minute behind Koci and his Citroën DS3 R3T). Did the Toyota look bad on the stages?

[Jarek Z]

All have a chance... but would you put money on him ?

Poor Bryan Bouffier... Another victim of Citroen R5

[TWRC]

A coulple of thoughts on the event as I saw it:
-in the main ERC field, Kopecky and Luky were visibly faster, even though Lukyanuk was very-very precise where I saw him, Kopecky on the other hand was visibly pushing very hard. Shame for Bouffier, he did reasonably well, but as soon as he passed me on Maják I knew he was finished (even though his time wasn't bad according to the Skoda Motorsport guys standing next to us who recorded the times and asphalt temperatures), sounded the same as Tóth in Eger when he had to retire with engine problems too. Sirmacis was crazy, on the SSS he had a spin right in front of us, and generally was just all over the place. I was a bit disappointed with Botka, he was driving very rash and aggressive, changing lines in the turns constantly, he almost took a wheel off on SS7 where I was, then he had the moment from the video... Kostka, Tarabus, Cerny and Kajto were also good.
-the Toyota R3 looks cool, kind of sounds nice, but it looks very weak, Rossetti tried with it, but I don't think there's much more there. The R2s were great again, Ingram was taking a lot of risks, Griebel and Tannert were much less aggressive. And Gryazin... he's just crazy too.
-on the SSS I was very surprised that Pech got a bigger reaction than everybody (including Kopecky) at the OMV station, other than that he drove well, but nothing special, and he didn't seem too concerned in the service park about retiring. Tomáštík was OK, and Madsen too, although I expected a bit more noise from that Suzuki.
-one questionable thing was the spectator no-go areas in the forests, I think at places they were way too conservative, but OK, luckily I was able to find a good spot none the less.
-all in all a good event, lot of spectators, spectacular passes and great atmosphere, especially on SSS and Maják.

[Jarek Z]

After watching 1st day highlights on Eurosport I have got a feeling - if Lukyanuk will manage to finish it will be nothing more than coincidence. There is only two modes for him - win or crash. Let's hope for the first one.

How right you were!

[Mirek]

Great that ERC are making full-stage onboards available.. eagerly awaiting some of Luky but here is SS10 with Kopecky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcgxRaVR8Pk

On the other hand there will be no full stage onboards on mediasport.cz from Eurosport cameras. No agreement this time...

Some onboards and videos can be seen here though (Pech SS2, Valoušek SS7 so far): https://www.youtube.com/user/maxmann78/videos

[Mirek]

A coulple of thoughts on the event as I saw it:
-in the main ERC field, Kopecky and Luky were visibly faster, even though Lukyanuk was very-very precise where I saw him, Kopecky on the other hand was visibly pushing very hard. Shame for Bouffier, he did reasonably well, but as soon as he passed me on Maják I knew he was finished (even though his time wasn't bad according to the Skoda Motorsport guys standing next to us who recorded the times and asphalt temperatures), sounded the same as Tóth in Eger when he had to retire with engine problems too. Sirmacis was crazy, on the SSS he had a spin right in front of us, and generally was just all over the place. I was a bit disappointed with Botka, he was driving very rash and aggressive, changing lines in the turns constantly, he almost took a wheel off on SS8 where I was, then he had the moment from the video... Kostka, Tarabus, Cerny and Kajto were also good.
-the Toyota R3 looks cool, kind of sounds nice, but it looks very weak, Rossetti tried with it, but I don't think there's much more there. The R2s were great again, Ingram was taking a lot of risks, Griebel and Tannert were much less aggressive. And Gryazin... he's just crazy too.
-on the SSS I was very surprised that Pech got a bigger reaction than everybody (including Kopecky) at the OMV station, other than that he drove well, but nothing special, and he didn't seem too concerned in the service park about retiring. Tomáštík was OK, and Madsen too, although I expected a bit more noise from that Suzuki.
-one questionable thing was the spectator no-go areas in the forests, I think at places they were way too conservative, but OK, luckily I was able to find a good spot none the less.
-all in all a good event, lot of spectators, spectacular passes and great atmosphere, especially on SSS and Maják.

I think I agree with everything You wrote, also about the spectator safety and taping which was sometimes way too far from the road. I am still quite happy with our places as mostly we could see well enough although it would be difficult to catch a nice video from where spectators were allowed.