[WRC] Monza Rally 2020

[rallyfiend]

Colin Clark has never known what he's talking about.

He doesn't follow the actual rally enough - never analyses anything.

He just talks in cliche's and buzzwords.

And from the looks of his videos some crappy media consultant has told him to wave his hands around in dramatic gestures in order to 'draw the audience in' or some other nonsense.

He's a complete fraud.

[Franky]

Outtakes
- C. Clark is not objective when it comes to UK drivers (interestingly he was actually quite objective when talking about Meeke, but for some reason Evans, Greensmith and Breen are different (in about that order))

I'd go even so far to say that besides Clark painting pictures with words, nearly the entire WRC All Live commentating team is not objective.

[meh]

Like someone already wrote earlier, Colin is entertainer. During radio times I enjoyed his enthusiastic coverage at stage ends, he made radio a live. Now, the radio time is over and he has chosen to be analyst or journalist. And we all know how it is going.

On the other hand, he is sharing own opinions, like those driver ratings. His opinions and feelings. With Evans 10/10 he showed, that his "rating framework" does not match with lot of other rally fans, including me, and those rating are not really pragmatic. But this is how I take it - his ratings are just one person opinions, not THE TRUTH.

In short - take it easy

[wyler]

Like someone already wrote earlier, Colin is entertainer. During radio times I enjoyed his enthusiastic coverage at stage ends, he made radio a live. Now, the radio time is over and he has chosen to be analyst or journalist. And we all know how it is going.

On the other hand, he is sharing own opinions, like those driver ratings. His opinions and feelings. With Evans 10/10 he showed, that his "rating framework" does not match with lot of other rally fans, including me, and those rating are not really pragmatic. But this is how I take it - his ratings are just one person opinions, not THE TRUTH.

In short - take it easy

agree, but in that case, I really miss a "real" journalist...with dirtfish i was hoping for a raise in quality, compared to wrc.com

[meh]

Dirtfish have nice gap to fill - official channel need to provide neutral facts but they can provide opinions, they can publish rumors, they can make interviews the way like they want and provide content which is not doable by wrc.com.

[Sulland]

Just a question;
Is it allowed during weather like we had at Monza to bring 4 tyres in the car? So they could have more possibilities to make the car survive, and get to the finish of stages.
I guess it is room in the back to do this, and could help when weather suddely change, and temp drops under 0. Just to avoid to have to cancel stages.

[AnttiL]

Just a question;
Is it allowed during weather like we had at Monza to bring 4 tyres in the car? So they could have more possibilities to make the car survive, and get to the finish of stages.
I guess it is room in the back to do this, and could help when weather suddely change, and temp drops under 0. Just to avoid to have to cancel stages.

Only two spares is allowed and I don't think they could fit more

[AnttiL]

Like someone already wrote earlier, Colin is entertainer.

Well said. It's just easy forget when he's in the company of David Evans who can think more than once before writing or opening his mouth.

Colin is also very stubborn, he is very bad at taking any sort of criticism. He's probably too used to radio where you couldn't interact or correct erroneous facts.

[mknight]

In the long interview (in Norwegian https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cS...SjyNznBdzTtK5g ) with Østberg/Eriksen:

- says that the Michelin rain tire is not so good when it's too much water/dirt and the snow tire is only good on snow, while he says Pirelli snow tire is much more universal (Formaux seemed to do ok with wet tires?)
- similarly he claims that the Michelins are better when driving on "clean" tarmac stages

- he says he was sitting behind the wheel before starting stages watching alllive and making icenotes based on what was on the screen (not surprising)

- points out that WRC3 crews usually have a road position advantage (applies to gravel) and also that R5s outside of WRC2/3 have free tire limits (allocations) and hopes that it will be somehow unified for all R5s but doesn't think it will happen soon


- says the C3 R5 now needs specific setup and lots of parts changed for each rally and that there are still some events that they don't have good setup for. The updated (Rally2) one that is coming now should be more allround and easily adaptable to all rallies in addition it should have more power and downforce.
- he is working on an (fully) electric rally car (with Citroen) and might run it on some local event(s) in 2021.

- they talk how K. Rovanpera is using in-ear headphones for better intercom sound and Østberg says he used them too in DS3 WRC which was very noisy inside

[Mirek]

- he is working on an (fully) electric rally car (with Citroen) and might run it on some local event(s) in 2021.

Citroën version of the already known electric Corsa?