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17th April 2018, 14:39 #1901
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Got back from Spain late last night, so only just got round to catching up on the forum! Real mix of conditions over the two days, wet and incredibly slippery loose surface on Saturday versus a dry and fast track on Sunday.
Very tough call for the officials with regards to the incident in the final. Ekstrom was marginally ahead, but I personally think he was too pushy: Solberg had the inside line and was travelling at roughly the same speed, but Ekstrom put his car inside the white lines, so he must have known that any car inside of him was being forced well over them.
That said, I think it was a poor bit of track design and I am honestly surprised that there wasn't more then one car that collected that tyre barrier. Solberg was dominant for a large portion of the weekend and he at least deserved a podium, was a real shame to see his weekend end like that. He gave the Polo a damn good thrashing in the final though!
Fantastic drive from Nitiss in the European Championship. My first impression was that Marklund was going to be the pace setter again, but Nitiss was great in the wet on Saturday afternoon and again in the dry on Sunday."If in doubt... flat out!"
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17th April 2018, 20:56 #1902
Apparently the dates for GRC have now disappeared, maybe they killed the championship quicker than we thought?
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17th April 2018, 23:23 #1903
It's dead for the year if not completely. Subaru jumped to the competing America Rallycross Championship like they bailed on Rally America a few years ago to go with the new American Rally Association.
Subaru's been doing very well in the US as their cars are getting bigger and blander. I'm kind of surprised they still bother to focus on sponsoring performance at all, here.
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18th April 2018, 06:31 #1904
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GRC has a trail of unpaid bills. No 2018 season. Not looking good for future years.
Here are links to 2 articles
http://autoweek.com/article/racing/r...l-unpaid-bills
https://jalopnik.com/ugly-lawsuit-do...bal-1825327602Last edited by KiwiWRCfan; 18th April 2018 at 08:07. Reason: link to second article added
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18th April 2018, 08:27 #1905
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18th April 2018, 15:19 #1906
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20th April 2018, 10:33 #1907
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He was visibly shaken after the race, and they did carry quite a bit of speed even into the first corner. Then considering it's only been 7 months since he had to be removed from his car by medical personell and taken to the hospital with broken bones I can understand that he feared the worst when hurtling towards the tires with his wheel turned to the right and his middle pedal to the floor, to no avail. He was looking ahead to the first corner, his braking point and so on, with an S1 right next to him. I guess he didn't consider the possibility of Ekström turning into him and crashing him into the first stationary object along the track. I wouldn't either. Timur maybe, and perhaps Bakkerud, but not Ekström.
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24th April 2018, 10:22 #1908
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24th April 2018, 10:43 #1910
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From what has been said thus far I think there will be more GRC horror stories coming out over the next few months. It seems the divisions within the series have been growing for some time.
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