WRC/ERC/Irish & British Rallying 2014 - News and Chat

liam7831

Mad Bull wrote: »

Any thoughts on who will win in Mexico?
I think Atkinson could be on the podium for Hyundai. Maybe 3rd.

Atkinson is rubbish, prob going to bin it as usual. His record is appalling, was in a title winning car for years and did nothing only constantly destroy it

guyfo

liam7831 wrote: »

Atkinson is rubbish, prob going to bin it as usual. His record is appalling, was in a title winning car for years and did nothing only constantly destroy it

what title winning cars did he drive for seasons?

He drove the impreza wrc 2005, it won 2 WRC rallys in the hands of Solberg, Chris had a best result of 3rd in his debut year.

Subaru then had 3 winless years before withdrawing.

He was only ever average in my eyes though, he proved that in his recent performances.

Robbo

I don't see Atkinson on the podium myself, he's too long out of regular practice at this level. He'll be happy with a top 6.

The front of today's MN has a story about a possible MG WRC bid, with Ukrainian backing. We'll see what Putin has to say about that.

mjhickeyie

The altitude in Mexico will be tough on the cars. New cars, like the Hyundai, often struggle on these type of vents.

I think Atkinson is capable of getting a good result this season but I don't think it will happen in Mexico. He will need a few events to get back up to speed.

That MG story sounds a bit mad...

wobbles

I think Oigier will win, with Meeke and Ostberg in 2nd and 3rd with no particular order.

Neville might actually finish this event but not in on the podium, a top 5 would be great.

h3000

Well Rally Mexico is sure living up to it's reputation of a rally of attrition

h3000

SS16 live on BT Sport now.

finnharpsboy

WRC Mexico power stage starting now on ESPN

finnharpsboy

oh kris

h3000

finnharpsboy wrote: »

oh kris

I think he was genuinely unlucky today. His line seemed okay and he did not seem to cut too much or anything.

finnharpsboy

very unlucky indeed.
as they said on the telly it was probably gonna happen to whoever went through first

Daveysil15

finnharpsboy wrote: »

WRC Mexico power stage starting now on ESPN

Savage.

h3000

Craig Breen will be out in the 208 T16 (R5) on the Circuit of Kerry 6th April. Will definitely try to make it down to that.

h3000

Group B rally doc on RTE 2 now. Missed the start

recyclebin

Seen most it. It was about the killer rally years of the 80s. There is also a similar formula 1 documentary.

h3000

Breen leads overnight in Greece. Kevin Abbring had been setting the pace and had a couple of seconds on Breen but retired on SS5 with mechanical failure. The 208 T16 seems nice and quick.


Overall after SS6
1 @Craig_Breen
2.Bouffier +14.7
3.@Kajto_pl +15.0
4 @EsapekkaLappi 43.8
5 Gryazin +1:53.1
6 Magalhaes +2:03.5

h3000

Breen wins in Greece

wobbles

Fantastic result. Has shown great speed on both days on different surfaces

h3000

Well it looking like we are in for a very wet Rally de Portugal, a repeat of 2012 maybe.

Flooding halted yesterday’s opening day of recce at Rally de Portugal with sections of the route impassable after torrential rain.

Almost 60mm of rain deluged the Algarve region and the Ourique and Santana da Serra stages were worst affected. Recce cars had to be towed out of flash floods and as rain continued to fall, organisers cancelled practice in those two tests.
http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/april/recce-floods/page/1232--12-12-.html

h3000

SS1 (Super Special) is live on BT Sport 1 @ 6pm this evening.

finnharpsboy

Live WRC Portugal Power Stage on BT Sport 2 now

h3000

Not exactly rally related but Seb Loeb started his WTCC career off in typical Loeb fashion finishing 2nd in race 1 and 1st in race 2. Granted a little team orders in place and the Citroen is a great car but he still had to drive it there.

n1ght28

Anyone know any good spectating viewpoints for the ERC stages up north ,on Friday in particular.

afatbollix

Stage 10 of the Circuit of Ireland will be streamed live here:

http://new.livestream.com/COI

TheBigGreen

Anyone have details of the Rally of the Lakes stages? Did a quick google search and couldn't find much on the stage locations. Thinking of heading over on the Sunday.

h3000

TheBigGreen wrote: »

Anyone have details of the Rally of the Lakes stages? Did a quick google search and couldn't find much on the stage locations. Thinking of heading over on the Sunday.

I Think the Saturday stages are Molls Gap, Beallaghbeama and Caragh Lake. You might be better off picking up a rally program though.

Edit just spotted you said Sunday and not Saturday

Sunday stages are Molls Gap, Borlin, Lough Allua and Fuhiry.

Brian_Zeluz

Just in case you didn't hear it, Meeke and Nagle came home in 3rd in Argentina.

leoch

Brilliant he needed that

mjhickeyie

Brian_Zeluz wrote: »

Just in case you didn't hear it, Meeke and Nagle came home in 3rd in Argentina.

Delighted for them. Very sensible drive, just did enough to hold off mikkelsen.

finnharpsboy

just under 3 weeks to go to Donegal International Rally

finnharpsboy

three spectators killed at the jim clark rally today and a fourth seriously injured .... sad news

h3000

finnharpsboy wrote: »

three spectators killed at the jim clark rally today and a fourth seriously injured .... sad news

Awful news. Condolences to all involved.

finnharpsboy

h3000 wrote: »

Awful news. Condolences to all involved.

hear its an irish crew involved too

Grim.

finnharpsboy wrote: »

three spectators killed at the jim clark rally today and a fourth seriously injured .... sad news

terrible news

wobbles

Awful news. It seems the only time rallying makes the headlines is when theres a tragedy. Theres also scummy reporters looking for interviews and pictures of the crash (BBC etc) trying to sensationalise the whole thing. Thankfully they are being rightly told to shove their reports

Ciano35

F***ing disgusting headline by the Irish Daily Mail,

:mad: :mad: :mad:

Grim.

typical of those scummy bastards :mad:

h3000

Disgraceful :mad:

finnharpsboy

how could leah mcdonald (@leahmc84) put her name to that utter tripe

afatbollix

Motorsport Ireland has lodged a complaint with the press ombudsman at 09:45 this morning.


I see they have put up video stills on the UK website after asking people for photos of the crash a hour after it happened. I emailed the pic editor and got no reply. Just trash journalism.

h3000

afatbollix wrote: »

Motorsport Ireland has lodged a complaint with the press ombudsman at 09:45 this morning.


I see they have put up video stills on the UK website after asking people for photos of the crash a hour after it happened. I emailed the pic editor and got no reply. Just trash journalism.

The Scotish Daily Mail Twitter feed had a Tweet to ask for photos too and got a severe backlash from other users, me included. The Tweet was later deleted.

wobbles

Another scottish paper with an eye witness report today of a man that was apparently knocked out by the car saying marshals moved him into that position and blaming the marshals.

Its all lies according to others who witnessed the crash (including Euan Thorburn) that he was on the other side of the road and not involved at all. Makes me sick that they are blaming the drivers and now the marshals. I really hope they sue the papers for defamation when the official investigation is complete. Papers are showing their complete lack of knowledge of the sport and jumping to conclusions. They dont know a thing about rallying since they only ever cover it when theres a death.

Ive marshalled many times around the country and have had a number of run ins with spectators standing in prohibited locations but thankfully have been able to move them.

h3000

Ciano35 wrote: »

F***ing disgusting headline by the Irish Daily Mail,




:mad: :mad: :mad:

Hi Ciano35,

I totally get why you posted the image of the Irish Daily Mail and I'm not having a go at you here, it did need to be done at the time. I was hoping though that you might delete the image now. It's disgusting reporting and really the last thing us real fans want to look at.

Again I really do understand why you posted it here but I think any publicity of this ill informed sensationalistic rag even negative is too much.

Thanks,
Martin

Ciano35

h3000 wrote: »

Hi Ciano35,

I totally get why you posted the image of the Irish Daily Mail and I'm not having a go at you here, it did need to be done at the time. I was hoping though that you might delete the image now. It's disgusting reporting and really the last thing us real fans want to look at.

Again I really do understand why you posted it here but I think any publicity of this ill informed sensationalistic rag even negative is too much.

Thanks,
Martin

True. Excuse of a paper. Image has been removed now.

18 years ago today Mickey Farrell left us, just wanted to put a photo up for the day that's in it...





Always miss you, never forget you Michael.

Robbo

Ypres on this weekend and it's started badly for Breen with a puncture on SS1, dropping 30 seconds or so. Abbring had 6s on Loix so it looks like the R5 cars have a reasonable edge pulling out of the junctions.

h3000

Robbo wrote: »

Ypres on this weekend and it's started badly for Breen with a puncture on SS1, dropping 30 seconds or so. Abbring had 6s on Loix so it looks like the R5 cars have a reasonable edge pulling out of the junctions.

Jees the only luck he is having lately is bad luck.

Robbo

h3000 wrote: »

Jees the only luck he is having lately is bad luck.

Another 30s gone on SS2 as the puncture damaged the brakes, he needs a horseshoe.

finnharpsboy

Donegal also on this weekend, Declan Boye leading by 5 seconds at the end of day 1

finnharpsboy

spectator in Donegal hit by car, not life threatening thank god.

http://www.donegaldaily.com/2014/06/21/rally-fan-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-hit-by-car-during-race/