Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Rally teams should check out this new battery for electric cars claiming 1500 miles between charges & to be environmentally-friendly...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...arging-it.html

[Mirek]

The principle of aluminium-air fuel cell is not new (it's not a battery because it can't be charged!). Plenty of laboratories have been working on them for decades however so far the technology was not mature enough to go into wide scale production (I think some are used in certain military applications though). I don't believe in some sort of higher conspiracy against them. If they were so good the car manufacturers would be more than happy to use them instead of the li-ion batteries which are an expensive headache for them.

There has been a lot of seemingly groundbraking ideas which never managed to become mature enough for more than a laboratory use. Let's name for example HCCI engine which has been around for decades but till today it has not been installed in any serially produced vehicle. Let's see.

[eib1]

meanwhile in Finland

[Mirek]

Mirko Červený, one of the fathers of the Škoda 130RS and 200RS passed away. He was 85 years old.
https://www.ewrc.cz/clanek/34355-zemrel-mirko-cerveny/

[AnttiL]

KiwiWRCFan's post in the Hyundai thread made me think that rally cars don't need photoshopping for halloween costumes

[Indreq]

Can anyone recomment some good WRC podcasts? I know of Gravel Notes and Kitchen Table, WRC official podcast hasnt put new episode out for over a month, so maybe there is something else worth listening while driving to and from office... And i mean WRC as World Rally Championship, not as World Redemption Centre (yes, i accidentally clicked on their sermon podcast :P ).

[AnttiL]

Can anyone recomment some good WRC podcasts? I know of Gravel Notes and Kitchen Table, WRC official podcast hasnt put new episode out for over a month, so maybe there is something else worth listening while driving to and from office... And i mean WRC as World Rally Championship, not as World Redemption Centre (yes, i accidentally clicked on their sermon podcast :P ).

Absolute Rally is probably the best weekly podcast

https://www.absoluterally.co.uk/

If you're strictly a WRC fan, you might need to skip some of the interviewed people, but usually every episode has something WRC related. The hosts are either rally drivers, involved in WRC teams somehow and/or motorsport journalists. Sometimes they even have WRC drivers/co-drivers or people like Julian Porter as guests.

[Neige]

A bit of advertising, but it's rally related so and I just want to share, what am I doing last 8 months.

https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek

What I do, is trying to create some original content every week from some event that happened. I'm a month behind, but I hope will catch up until next year. Here some articles for example:

Sol Rally Barbados and huge amount of brittish drivers there - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Sammy Yokote Rally and about Toshihiro Arai - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Samsonas Rally Rokiškis and Tonny Gardemeister - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Woodpecker Rally Stages and Proton Iriz R5 - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
East Sweden Rally and comeback of Patrik Flodin - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Hellendoorn Rally and Bernhardt ten Brinke - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Rally de Toledo and a winner against cancer Marcos Ligato - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
About last non-WRC cars winning a WRC event - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Lavanttal Ralye and crazy "course car" quattro - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Targa Florio - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Rally Mionica and Serbian championship - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Rally Tere Haut Var - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Safari Rally which later gained a place back to WRC - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater
Nicky Grist stages - https://www.facebook.com/RallyWeek/p...type=3&theater

Hope they are worth Your time

[L555MAT]

Absolute Rally is probably the best weekly podcast

https://www.absoluterally.co.uk/

If you're strictly a WRC fan, you might need to skip some of the interviewed people, but usually every episode has something WRC related. The hosts are either rally drivers, involved in WRC teams somehow and/or motorsport journalists. Sometimes they even have WRC drivers/co-drivers or people like Julian Porter as guests.

Didn’t know this existed, thanks for sharing!

[dimviii]

who is the guy at the right?