[ERC] Geko Ypres Rally (19. -21.06. 2014)

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One thing that I noticed on this rally is that... nobody wants to drive Mitsubishis and Subarus anymore. In a rally with as many as 90 crews there were only 2 Subarus and 8 Mitsubishis. It seems that the times when there were 20-30 group N 4WD cars on the entry list are long gone...

Yes, and I was wondering if there was any car from the famous Guy Colsoul rallyteam this year? It was a lot different in the past. But if you look at the result of Lefevere in his Mitsubishi R4, you can still achieve a reasonable result, pitty the JRM Subaru R4 was missing.

I'll try to write some resume tomorrow, but I'm sure Mirek will write a better one.

Nice pictures tommeke, don't you have a picture of Rosseti on this spot:

He hit the roadsign pole, but was able to continue without big loss of time.

I don't think so. There was no visible difference between the cars even the sound was same for me. He even had long gearbox like factory cars and Loix. All four (Rossetti, Loix, Lappi, Wiegand shared service places next to each other so I think that Rossetti had some some kind of factory support too. You could very clearly see that cars of Consani or especially Vanneste were much slower and worse in suspension than all 7 Škodas but You could not see any difference Rossetti/Loix/Lappi/Wiegand. I don't say there was no difference, sure there was some but it wasn't "miles away" like You wrote. No way. Also I think the Pirelli might have worked actually better than Michelins (especially considering times of Consani compared to impression from stage). Anyway Luca was driving very different way than others, smoother, cleaner, very precise lines, no blocking of wheels when braking. A bit "Loebish".

Rosetti did an awesome job, I tought his victory was lucky but he proved the oposite. I didn't know he was on Pirelli's, that would be the first time these tires worked better on dry tarmac then Michelins.

On the other hand the gr.N cars in Ypres were mostly boring to watch. Juniors with R2 were much more spectacular (at least in fast places).

I must disagree, although not fast, the Mitsus of Erdy, Hudec and Pushkar came through spectacular almost every pass, not to forget Lefevere! :-)
One proof ;-)