56. Renties Ypres Rally Belgium 2021

[MartijnS]

Katsuta crash: https://www.rallye-magazin.de/int/vi...-ypres-rally/?

A LOT of lucky people there.

[EstWRC]

including the filming guy itself!

[mknight]

Katsuta crash: https://www.rallye-magazin.de/int/vi...-ypres-rally/?

A LOT of lucky people there.

No kidding!!!

Could have been 10ish fatalities.

Combined with all the other videos of people standing on the outside of flat out corners it just confirms some of the vids from last years.

Don't see the rally back to WRC anytime soon...

[kiil]

Simply stupid. It's beyond my understanding why you would put yourself and the entire sport at risk just to be 10 meters closer to the stage. It is like poland all over again, some countries just don't get it.

[SubaruNorway]

I think if it runs again they need to run it after the crops have been harvested, makes it much easier finding a safe and good spot even a bit away from the road

[mknight]

I think if it runs again they need to run it after the crops have been harvested, makes it much easier finding a safe and good spot even a bit away from the road

While that might indeed reduce the number of immortal people I don't have much hope of eliminating it completely.

2-3 years ago I was commenting on this when watching Ypres with R5s without big crops. Dupanton said that it's always like that on Ypres for some reason (while other Belgian rallies are better).




Imagine if there were say 5 fatalities...

Toyota with their mentality (and money) and no R5 program, might just withdraw from WRC completely (while still paying salaries to the whole team for 2-3 years).

"Modern group B" would end (almost) just like old Group B.

[rp]

Very, very lucky indeed! There has been good luck also earlier during the current World Rally Car era. It is hard to say, but these cars are just simply too fast! There are only current top 5 drivers who have enough skills to master them. Now it was Katsuta´s and Fourmaux´s turn to make a bad mistakes...

True! Almost sure that if there had been fatalities Toyota would have ended their WRC program immediately...

[dimviii]

Andrea Ettori
@AndreaEttori
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7h
Top Speed in discesa verso Eau RougeRoller coaster

Hyundai 187 km/h
Toyota 192 km/h
Ford 196 km/h

go figure...

[Danny0405]

Good result for Neuville who ties with Evans but still keeps his 3rd position so he will still have an average road position in Greece (I don’t know if it was the plan but good pick from Hyundai to have let Neuville 3rd in Estonia).
It could get closer from Ogier thanks to better road position in Greece and Finland.

[focus206]

Good result for Neuville who ties with Evans but still keeps his 3rd position so he will still have an average road position in Greece (I don’t know if it was the plan but good pick from Hyundai to have let Neuville 3rd in Estonia).
It could get closer from Ogier thanks to better road position in Greece and Finland.

Evans and Neuville are too far in any case. Ogier could just "cruise" for the last 4 rounds, he wouldn't get worse than 5th and a podium is always a good possibility.
Only a DNF/Superrally by Ogier would re-open the championship, but even then, he would still have a good advantage.