Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2015

[AL14]

"That might be how it works in Italy, but that's not how we do things here in Portugal." this is just stupid to say. All his tone was the one of an idiot, he may be right about Bertelli but he is not less childish than him

[N.O.T]

It was obvious at least to people who know the basics about the sport that Bertelli was at fault and the organisers did not just ignore him... but ok we cannot all have the same intelectual levels, sometimes being a ignorant dog helps the society in many ways.

[janvanvurpa]

More on the Bertelli thing:

Barbosa, who presides over the Automobile Club of Portugal as well as the WRC Commission, told AUTOSPORT: "Lorenzo Bertelli was very anxious to go to the arms of his mother, that's all it was.

"He wanted us to stop the stage so his mother could fly in in the helicopter and pick him up so he didn't have to wait.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/119297

Good on Barbosa for speaking clearly.

[dimviii]

http://www.irallylive.com/ir_news.htm?00008154&10

After a lot of speculation surrounding Lorenzo Bertelli's accident on SS10 at Rally de Portugal 2015, Carlos Barbosa, the President of the WRC Commission, has spoken out - and he hasn't held back.

Many rally fans have called his comments 'too personal', and rightly so.

"Lorenzo Bertelli was very anxious to go to the arms of his mother, that's all it was." said Barbosa.

"He wanted us to stop the stage so his mother could fly in in the helicopter and pick him up so he didn't have to wait.

"That might be how it works in Italy, but that's not how we do things here in Portugal.

"He was completely OK, but he got very excited and made a big noise about having to wait.

"He thinks because he is the son of Prada this changes everything."

Lorenzo Bertelli responded in a professional manner, but it was clearly difficult for him to mask the emotion in his words. "After 20 minutes I nearly fell to the ground and felt really sick. I asked Gio [Bernacchini, co-driver] to hit the SOS button.

"After we waited already two hours, the spectator who was a medic called to the organisers again and said for us to wait another hour to hour and a half was too much.

"What is the point of having the button if we push it and the organisers do nothing?"

A fine question indeed, and one that rally fans all around the world have been asking non-stop since the accident occurred. After all, if a driver changes his status from OK to SOS, that means that something is wrong and that it needs to be dealt with immediately. But should the organisers of Rally de Portugal really have left the situation in the hands of a spectator who just so happened to be a paramedic?

"We had a paramedic with him and he was reporting his condition every five or 10 minutes." Barbosa said. This paramedic, a spectator at the event, has said very different things according to Bertelli's camp. Barbosa's comments haven't put this topic to bed. In fact, they've shaken it up and made it a whole lot worse.

Barbosa also added, "I have the best rally in the world. We have no problems with the event at all."

It's very clear that there are problems, and the problem isn't with the event itself - it's with the people who decided to put Bertelli's health on the back burner and leave him stranded inside a stage for three and a half hours. Bertelli went to hospital, stayed overnight, had two CAT scans and only left the next day after doctors pronounced him fit to leave.

A head injury is a head injury. The ambulances are on-event for a reason: to go in and retrieve drivers who require medical attention, and if Bertelli's incident was so minor, he wouldn't have had to go to hospital at all.

The question that fans are now asking is this: why has the President of the WRC Commission made personal comments about Bertelli's background and family in relation to an accident he had on an event, and perhaps more directly, what does his family name have to do with asking for medical help?

But the real question comes from Bertelli himself, and we will repeat it again now: "What is the point of having the button if we push it and the organisers do nothing?"

[AL14]

I would add another question: why a pathetic windbag moron is the President of the WRC Commission?

[N.O.T]

why ? for speaking the truth ?

[AL14]

I'm not referring to Bertelli issue itself, but about the tone and the words he has used for his declaration like when he said "He wanted to go to his mother's arm", or that idiocy about how things works in Portugal and in Italy or also when he says he has the best rally in the world.
Be a normal man, speak the truth but do not show your "masculinity" in such an idiot way.

[N.O.T]

I think he used the correct tone and words...

with people like Bertelli and all the other useless privateers of the WRC you have to be bold because those spoiled kids are used in being pampered by the local village event organisers doing all their favours for them in order the village people to see one more WRC/s2000 in the entry of their useless village event...

this is the WRC and if you want to be in it you have to realise that the organiser has the upper hand and he has a world class event to run, and you only demand things when there is a need to do it.

[Andre Oliveira]

Ford suspension is incredible

[AL14]

Village events aren't useless and he has not been bold but just pathetic in my opinion.
The rest I agree.