56. Renties Ypres Rally Belgium 2021

[mousti]

Ypres has an agreement with the promotor to be the next year and year after to be in the ERC championship and then eventually again on the WRC Calendar.

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[Franky]

The photographer refused to come out of his dangerous spot in a corn field (kept on going back) and got the stage cancelled for everyone.

Think Sal is referring to Ree being moved to another spot on SS8 and the picture got blown up with "confiscated" online. When it wasn't exactly like that.

Tho there seem to be plenty of photographers who weren't happy on Friday.

[AnttiL]

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He was not, he was tenth among RC2 drivers at the end of Saturday: https://rally-base.com/2021/renties-...09&ssGroupId=1

At no point of the rally he was leading even before his power steering issues.

I think we can rate Oliver's performance only through Friday. He made the fastest RC2 time on SS7 and didn't set a foot wrong, which is decent, but not enough for being one of the best drivers of the rally. By SS6 he was fifth in RC2, 25 seconds behind Suninen.

Meanwhile, Rossel did an amazing job in RC2, winning the class on his first start in the event.

[focus206]

From what I've gathered from this forum, Gino Bux got 30 minutes of penalty for having his Alpine 7 Kg lighter... Ogier had his Yaris 1 Kg lighter and no penalty whatsoever because he's Ogier? Is this confirmed?

[Integrale]

Speaking of safety, during the rally I had not one, but TWO unpleasant encounters with Michelle Mouton. The first was on Zonnebeke 1. A safety marshall told me it was okay for me to walk the stage for a couple hundred meters to reach a hairpin (the one just across the bridge over the highway). So, I did as he suggested and went on my way. Literally 30 seconds later Michelle pulls up in her FIA Safety Delegate car and scolds me for walking on the stage. I told her the truth: I would obey, but the safety marshall told me it was okay. She just said she'd told her marshalls not to let anyone on the stage anymore, and that if I did not obey immediately she'd cancel the stage. I left the stage, thinking this one marshall and friends clearly didn't get that memo.

The second was on Dikkebus 2. We were standing behind the tape, guarded by another safety marshall, when Michelle again pulled up and said we were standing in a dangerous spot. Even though people had been standing in that exact same spot during the first run of Dikkebus, and it was marked with tape. We all had to move and the marshall had to move the tape.

I think both of these incidents highlight a problem with communication among organisers (Belgian marshalls working for Rally Ypres vs the FIA).

We had only one encounter with Michèle. No walking on the stage 30 minutes before the start. I'm always very compliant because it goes quicker that way. Once Michèle is gone, in your case over the bridge, it's back to plan A. There are 10-15 minutes left after she's gone. It's quite a silly job if you ask me. I hope you didn't actually leave the stage!

Marshalls and police were okay around us. Marshalls are volunteers and there's a lot of difference in their judgment and form of authority. Today on the parts of the real stages around Spa we could do whatever we wanted. Yesterday we had some Dutch marshalls who forbade people crossing the road to go to their car to get to the next stage. Police came to get the identities of those who did. Ridiculous. Marshalls and police tend to get crazy if there are many spectators, they feel challenged and/or something just happened (Katsuta's crash in this case). There were police officers from far away with no experience with rally. I translated something for an officer because she couldn't speak French (ridiculous as well), and after that they hung around and made some cellphone videos. Most marshalls were very okay.

So yeah, you win some, you lose some. But if the organisation tells you that you can stand anywhere on the stage at 10 metres (except the forbidden zones), then you're entitled to do that. Yes sir, yes ma'am, but after you're gone, I'm doing what I want. Of course I've seen spectators in very stupid spots as well.

[TypeR]

Jaanus Ree on FB about the situation:

Although there were many rumors about my gear taken by the police they were just rumors.
What really happened was that near me there were some spectators in the dangerous place and police got a call from the copter that they needed to clear up the whole area. They did not care that I was doing my job and I was acting by the given rules staying 10 meters away from the road and in a safe place behind one of the biggest trees I have ever seen. They "helped" me to take my gear to 20 meters away, sadly also forced me to take down remotes. Police were doing their job, fulfilling their orders. I respect their job and understand why they did everything. Thanks to their quick action, the stage was not cancelled. What is unfortunate is that they were not aware of what I was doing there and were confusing me with a spectator despite my tabard and media pass.

[Integrale]

https://youtu.be/tDsqZAD5LKc

Beautiful

[mknight]

From what I've gathered from this forum, Gino Bux got 30 minutes of penalty for having his Alpine 7 Kg lighter... Ogier had his Yaris 1 Kg lighter and no penalty whatsoever because he's Ogier? Is this confirmed?

The only source of Ogiers overweight that I saw was here. Might also be that Toyota requested check on another instrument and on that one it was within limits.
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Solberg stayed out of self-induced trouble (finally). But one good stage and staying out of trouble while being slower than 2 other WRC2 and multiple RC2 cars is certainly not enough to call him man of the rally.
RC2 man of the rally was Rossel, no doubt.

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On another note I was trying to find Breens moment on first Sunday stage. But there is no onboard and it's not shown on Sunday highlights.

[AnttiL]

On another note I was trying to find Breens moment on first Sunday stage. But there is no onboard and it's not shown on Sunday highlights.

Were his cameras broken? They were flickering on Saturday evening and I don't think we saw anything on All Live today?

[mknight]

Were his cameras broken? They were flickering on Saturday evening and I don't think we saw anything on All Live today?

True.. maybe they were so broken onboards didn't work either.