Thread: [WRC] Safari Rally Kenya 2025
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23rd March 2025, 11:42 #461Senior Member
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Did Taka make it to the service?
"Reis vas pät pat kaar vas kut"
Tommi Mäkinen, back in the years...
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23rd March 2025, 11:42 #462
Kalle 7th in championship after 3 rounds. Is this real? He is lucky that Croatia isn't afterwards, there would be a lot of dirt on the road, Canarias might be clean.
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23rd March 2025, 11:51 #463
That was one of the most deserved podium I have ever seen. Evans mature drive with no mistakes, Tanak and Neuville even though having an unrealible car, making it to the podium. Incredible effort by Hyundai in the end.
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23rd March 2025, 12:07 #464Senior Member
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Does anyone has the standing after kenya?
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23rd March 2025, 12:09 #465Senior Member
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This is the Welshman's first victory on the Safari Rally.
He becomes the first British driver to win the rally since Colin McRae in 2002.
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I didn't especially enjoy watching the rally, but I'm very happy with the result as an Evans fan.
I think Toyota management has to take a look in the mirror, after letting Katsuta push hard with Rovanpera retired and Katsuta's lack of reliability. IMO they should have ordered him to bring the car home. He managed to finish behind Pajari, whom I've noticed people calling underwhelming.
Hyundai had good speed on day 1 but then they started falling apart. I wonder how much of that speed was down to the twisty day 1 stages suiting them better than Toyota, and how much was just recklessness. But they played it well from day 2.
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Real Safari - roots of real rallying. Hope they will keep Safari in calendar.
Evans - WDC in making. Mother fortune has turned her sight on him. As much as I would like Tanak get the 2nd-one, Evans really deserves it - no complaining, always head down, logical carrier decisions. Rooting for Evans.
McErlean - top 3 driver in making. Give him 2 seasons. Very good start of the season for super-under-experienced driver who ought to deliver (doubt that he would get another year if massively failed).
Pajari - be patient, good driver. As a Finn, he will get 10-15 years to develop and start to deliver, if it wont work - will be appointed as Team Manager (in whatever brand run from Fin).
Hyundai - without any surprises.
Kalle - will be ok, even Jordan did not win first season back from pause. 😁
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