Rally Sweden 2023

[EstWRC]

The 1.2 was before the delamination, Martin looks at the dashboard and says it to Ott like a warning that the pressure is too low before the tyre exploded

[Rallyper]

Oliver has matured a lot.
Everything goes fine and he concentrates on driving, as he told Becsy.

[mknight]

Oliver has matured a lot.
Everything goes fine and he concentrates on driving, as he told Becsy.

Provided he takes it to the finish (since I was just as optimistic after Friday in Monte only for another crash on Saturday), it is the first time I am impressed and there is real progress since Sweden two years ago.

Exactly what essentially everyone asked for:
Don't drive at 100%+ when not necessary. When dropping a few secs don't overreact with crazy driving on next.
Hopefully it is confirmed on more rallies than one.

In other WRC2 news Pajari has been hugely impressive.
Lindholm kinda as expected by me (imo he is not (yet) fast and reliable for top spots, last year he just got very lucky).

Suninen biggest disappointment for many reasons. Gryazin also quite mediocre.

New Skoda seems a real step up here, but again this is the kind of stages it was designed to be better on. Eagerly waiting for Croatia and Portugal to see other types of rallies.

[meh]

He shows he can reach to result without trying to win every stage, which is good. At the moment he has a bit different situation to solve - with big lead, just make it to the finish without stupid mistakes and he seems to do that well at the moment.

In Rally1 most likely he will not meet this kind of situation any time soon - there is constant pressure and the question is, how he will handle the pressure.

Hopefully he can get the job done this time.

[meh]

Tänak <> Pirelli topic - confirmed by the Pirelli guy, that Tänak got slow punture from 4km into the stage. Which makes his split times (even more) mighty impressive.

My impression is that from Pirelli point of view it was different reason/problem with Tänak and Hyundais.

[meh]

Lappi is targeting PS points, no spares.

[Galev62]

Provided he takes it to the finish (since I was just as optimistic after Friday in Monte only for another crash on Saturday), it is the first time I am impressed and there is real progress since Sweden two years ago.

Exactly what essentially everyone asked for:
Don't drive at 100%+ when not necessary. When dropping a few secs don't overreact with crazy driving on next.
Hopefully it is confirmed on more rallies than one.

In other WRC2 news Pajari has been hugely impressive.
Lindholm kinda as expected by me (imo he is not (yet) fast and reliable for top spots, last year he just got very lucky).

Suninen biggest disappointment for many reasons. Gryazin also quite mediocre.

New Skoda seems a real step up here, but again this is the kind of stages it was designed to be better on. Eagerly waiting for Croatia and Portugal to see other types of rallies.

Agree with you on everything else than Lindholm and Suninen. Lindholm didnt do any rallies prefore Sweden and he got sick for his season preparation test and Meeke had to cover for him. Suninen and Lindholms rallies were mostly already over on friday and now it was just cruising to the finish. Also Hyandai has new team for the Rally 2 and i think they dont have so much experience on this kind of surface compared to Redgrey. Its not fair to call Lindholm only lucky from last year because he had great pace all year after Sweden.

Also Huttunen impressed me a lot with the museum Skoda. Lets hope that he gets enough funding to drive the new Printsport Skoda rs

[cali]

Provided he takes it to the finish (since I was just as optimistic after Friday in Monte only for another crash on Saturday), it is the first time I am impressed and there is real progress since Sweden two years ago.

Exactly what essentially everyone asked for:
Don't drive at 100%+ when not necessary. When dropping a few secs don't overreact with crazy driving on next.
Hopefully it is confirmed on more rallies than one.

In other WRC2 news Pajari has been hugely impressive.
Lindholm kinda as expected by me (imo he is not (yet) fast and reliable for top spots, last year he just got very lucky).

Suninen biggest disappointment for many reasons. Gryazin also quite mediocre.

New Skoda seems a real step up here, but again this is the kind of stages it was designed to be better on. Eagerly waiting for Croatia and Portugal to see other types of rallies.

Almost all agreed but I would like to add about Pajari that though his times are good his driving is still very sloppy and he approaches corners too fast and is wildly leaning on snowbanks. His risk management needs to improve, but yes, timewise very good.

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[bandit12]

There were some news, that mechanics messed up turbo tubes on Suninens car. That's why he dropped on standings

[meh]

A bit confused with split times... Breen faster than Rovanperä.

edit: split 3 Rovanperä 5.3sec slower than Neuville, it must be some issue happened or problem to carry

edit2: Rovanperä: "it was a good stage, I can not do more."