Barum Czech Rally Zlin 2016

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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.