[WRC] Croatia Rally 2023

[matek22]

Hi, I want to ask, if anybody know what SS are this stages?
If it´s possible where on the map is possible to find them.

Thank´s Pete

Video source : https://youtu.be/qmsqeeJt11w?t=149
https://youtu.be/qmsqeeJt11w?t=383

Hello mate, the location that you are asking for is couple kilometers away from that famous bridge (SS Vinski Vrh-Duga Resa). This are the correct cordinates (45.4741959, 15.4612296)

[ouvreur]

Also ones that were driven already 2021 and 2022, so familiar to most drivers anyway

That may be so - I still think it's pretty crazy that a national rally is using actual WRC stages, less than a month before that WRC event is due to run. We're talking 20% of Rally Croatia's total stage distance having 2 extra recce passes, and then being used competitively by just a few guys for whom this national rally falls into their schedule / budget. It doesn't seem right to me, and I can't think of another example of where that's happened before.

[J4MIE]

That may be so - I still think it's pretty crazy that a national rally is using actual WRC stages, less than a month before that WRC event is due to run. We're talking 20% of Rally Croatia's total stage distance having 2 extra recce passes, and then being used competitively by just a few guys for whom this national rally falls into their schedule / budget. It doesn't seem right to me, and I can't think of another example of where that's happened before.

The Equator Rally in Kenya in the last few years has run many identical stages to the Safari 2 months before it ran. This year it moved but don’t know if that is Safari related or more that a National event was added to it.

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Lindholm test
https://youtu.be/dQo67I4Rqwg

[RS]

Toksport crews finished 1-2 on their pre-Croatia test event last weekend, Gryazin quickest on majority of stages but Greensmith wasn't toooo much slower:

https://www.ewrc-results.com/results...karlovac-2023/

[AnttiL]

Toksport crews finished 1-2

this is almost pointless to mention when they had no one to drive against. Mauro Miele finished 3rd overall

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Tanak happy with his test rally...
https://www.wrc.com/en/news/2023/wrc...ble-for-tanak/

[Fast Eddie WRC]

Gryazin quickest on majority of stages but Greensmith wasn't toooo much slower.

Yes and it was Greensmith's first tarmac experience in the new Fabia and vs Gryazin who set the tarmac pace back in Monte.


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[AnttiL]

https://itgetsfasternow.com/2023/04/...ia-rally-2023/

Route preview. Only one new stage but the two new stages from last year were driven in such tricky conditions that they are practically new if the weather is dry.

[PLuto]

Yes, but I`d say smart choice of copied stages from WRC - short ones, which usually don`t have big impact - this `critical´ ones driven this year as friday 1 and 2 in the loop and saturday longest one are not part of this national rally - and this longer stages also have pretty different character and ground.

I must say I dont like this. I know they have special permissions, but for me this is against the rules to allow WRC competitors to do same stages like WRC event only three weeks before the rally...