[ERC] Tet Rally Liepāja 2023

[Jarek Z]

Qualifying LIVE! ERC Tet Rally Liepāja 2023:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otjKZAduw5I

[lmmjvss]

Gotta admit.. its reliefing to watch ERC. Lots of cars, nice stages, tire war, nobody complaining... Love this! GoMads!

[AndersX]

I think those who (not drivers) complaining about speeds need to calm down: rally on gravel, high speed, sideway cars are the best spectacle for TV and on the sight. Those air-camera shoots are really cool - you feel the speed even at the screen of phone or TV.

[RS]

I only just noticed but Llarena is back in the old Fabia here. He prefers it, or logistical reasons?

https://www.fiaerc.com/erc/news/erc/...rc-car-switch/

Personally i'm convinced the peak performance of the new car is higher, but it does seem harder for even some quite experienced drivers to access it. On the other hand others adapted very quickly (Solberg, Sesks)

Ironically, looking at QS times at least it seeems Latvia should be the type of event that suits the new car the most.

[Kenneth]

When ERC returned to model where only some drivers choose starting position? Here only 17 out of 20 drivers choosed, and the 3 slowest are starting last. It makes no sense.

[meh]

First I was surprised to see clouds and some rain (can not see them in Estonia at the moment).

Sesks is there, but additionally to him only one Latvian driver in the start list and this one with Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X. I hope Sesks makes rally more popular in Latvia.

Linnamäe choosed to be 1st on the road, which in the beginning seemed weird choice, but it completely makes sense to watch how much dust is hanging around between trees. Loosing grip, winning visibiliy.

[Lead]

It seems that tactic worked pretty well for Linnamae.

[Lead]

Dust issues for all of the drivers, but still Sesks managed to take 16sec out of Ostberg in 2nd place. Insane.

[RS]

Ss2 cancelled?

[meh]

Ss2 cancelled?

SS2 is the same stage as SS1, (probbably) cancelled due the dust issues. You can trust your pace-notes and go blindly into corners, but if someone is stopped there, it will be disaster. So it makes sense to cancel it but is it different for other stages, I don't know. In some other regions in Latvia there is rain (and Latvia is not that big), so there is hope for improvements. And it must be proper rain to improve the dust issue.