WRC, ERC, National rallying 2016 - News & Chat

h3000

Colser wrote: »

Thanks h3000. Im thinking rallycross as all the irish Rallies and a few abroad will be attended anyway. I might ring a few travel agents tomorrow and check it out,would just prefer to go on an organised trip rather than booking flights accomadation myself. Maybe Isle of Mann?

For WorldRX I'd book everything myself if I was you, flights - transportation to venue - events tickets. Here is tha calendar http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/calendar

h3000

Craig Breen takes Circuit Of Ireland win to make it two in a row. The guy has or at least had an awful lot of naysayers but I think he has proven that he is incredibly quick and deserves all the chances he has gotten in rallying.

mjhickeyie

h3000 wrote: »

Craig Breen takes Circuit Of Ireland win to make it two in a row. The guy has or at least had an awful lot of naysayers but I think he has proven that he is incredibly quick and deserves all the chances he has gotten in rallying.

Great result for Craig. Very quick when he needed to be all weekend.
Ya, he definitely seems to be taking his chances.

Hopefully bigger things to come from him in WRC.

mr potato head

The last stage from rally Argentina (Stage 18, power stage) is well worth a watch if you have WRC+ or can find it somewhere.

Great to see Hayden Paddon driving a phenomenal last stage to beat Ogier in a even fight.
To win a stage by that much and under the pressure of your first win shows a good bit of class!

funkey_monkey

Craig Breen taking on Glendun and the infamous Torr Road stage of this years COI. (Torr starts at 8:18).
:cool:

h3000

mr potato head wrote: »

The last stage from rally Argentina (Stage 18, power stage) is well worth a watch if you have WRC+ or can find it somewhere.

Great to see Hayden Paddon driving a phenomenal last stage to beat Ogier in a even fight.
To win a stage by that much and under the pressure of your first win shows a good bit of class!

I didn't get to follow much of the rally this weekend but it sounds like Paddon drove great.

I heard Latvala was blaming a suspension failure for his off. Have VW said much about this or is he looking for something else to blame than himself? I really wish he could get his head together because I really think he is a top driver.

mjhickeyie

I heard Latvala was blaming a suspension failure for his off. Have VW said much about this or is he looking for something else to blame than himself? I really wish he could get his head together because I really think he is a top driver.

Latvala saying the right front strut came through bonnet just before the off according to wrc.com.
There's good footage from the helicopter and it just looks like he was too fast & lost the rear but you can't see the right front.
Haven't read anything from VW.

If he could finally get his head right I think he could consistently give Ogier a battle but doubting that will ever happen now?

mr potato head

Definitly suspension failure from the onboard cam:



It was a fairly hard impact on a big flat bit of exposed rock, looks like it sheared the suspension top mount at the bolt flanges.

jelutong

Rally Of The Lakes highlights on UTV NI tonight @ 23:10.

mr potato head

Does anyone else find it disappointing that Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle had a fantastic win in Portugal and there was next to nothing in the Irish media.

Great rally from the pair, 2017 could be a great year if they get the new spec car dialed in.

h3000

mr potato head wrote: »

Does anyone else find it disappointing that Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle had a fantastic win in Portugal and there was next to nothing in the Irish media.

Great rally from the pair, 2017 could be a great year if they get the new spec car dialed in.

autosport wrote:

VW says wildcard winners like Meeke or Loeb 'devalue' WRC

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/124449

I was thinking sore loser at first but thinking about it again he does have a point.

There are a few drivers and navis debating it on Twitter at the moment with Colin Clark @voiceofrally

My favorite so far is
https://twitter.com/thierryneuville/status/735005853879783424

ratedR

Lads,

Have motors tv stopped showing nightly highlights of the WRC?
And what about ITV4? They used to do an hour long program of a Tuesday after a rally weekend, is that gone too?

Is the only option BT Sports now ?

Jesus ****, talk about making the sport inaccessible..

kksaints

Channel 5 has hour highlights on the Monday after the Rally.

mjhickeyie

ratedR wrote: »

Lads,

Have motors tv stopped showing nightly highlights of the WRC?
And what about ITV4? They used to do an hour long program of a Tuesday after a rally weekend, is that gone too?

Is the only option BT Sports now ?

Jesus ****, talk about making the sport inaccessible..

It's repeated on channel 5 +24 at 7pm Wednesday.

mjhickeyie

A great performance from Meeke all weekend. He made the most of current rules and did so in a very confident way.

Qualifying is probably the fairest way to deal with road cleaning.

mr potato head

mjhickeyie wrote: »

Qualifying is probably the fairest way to deal with road cleaning.

I also liked a suggestion on twitter that the power stage from the previous event be used as the qualification.
But I know that would cause problems of it's own.

jelutong

mjhickeyie wrote: »

It's repeated on channel 5 +24 at 7pm Wednesday.

It's on Spike @ 9 am Saturday .

h3000

Mark Higgins done a 126.9mph lap of the Isle Of Man TT course in a highly modded STI WRX. Thats crazy quick.

https://twitter.com/Mhigginsrally/status/739174395822936064

mjhickeyie

h3000 wrote: »

Mark Higgins done a 126.9mph lap of the Isle Of Man TT course in a highly modded STI WRX. Thats crazy quick

Mental!

What's the record on a bike?

h3000

mjhickeyie wrote: »

h3000 wrote: »

Mark Higgins done a 126.9mph lap of the Isle Of Man TT course in a highly modded STI WRX. Thats crazy quick

Mental!

What's the record on a bike?

Michael Dunlop broke that record too yesterday with a lap of 133.39mph.

Robbo

Any sign of an onboard of that lap? At this stage Higgins should aim for a blindfold lap record.

jelutong

ratedR wrote: »

Lads,

Have motors tv stopped showing nightly highlights of the WRC?
And what about ITV4? They used to do an hour long program of a Tuesday after a rally weekend, is that gone too?

Is the only option BT Sports now ?

Jesus ****, talk about making the sport inaccessible..

Highlights of Rally Sardinia on Motor TV over next weekend.

Robbo

I cannot recommend a WRC+ subscription highly enough. I was a bit sceptical last season signing up but was sufficiently pissed off with the inaccessibility of TV coverage.

Worth it alone for the live stages and you get the highlights as soon as possible.

h3000

Robbo wrote: »

Any sign of an onboard of that lap? At this stage Higgins should aim for a blindfold lap record.

This is the only real vid I can see so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70ACI_bbXck

Robbo wrote: »

I cannot recommend a WRC+ subscription highly enough. I was a bit sceptical last season signing up but was sufficiently pissed off with the inaccessibility of TV coverage.

Worth it alone for the live stages and you get the highlights as soon as possible.

+1

h3000

Robbo wrote: »

Any sign of an onboard of that lap? At this stage Higgins should aim for a blindfold lap record.

Full video now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRg5Sp1iQMc

jelutong

Chris Meeke currently in 1st place overall and Craig Breen in 3rd in Rally Finland.
Fingers crossed.

h3000

jelutong wrote: »

Chris Meeke currently in 1st place overall and Craig Breen in 3rd in Rally Finland.
Fingers crossed.

HaHa you just beat me too it. Great showing from the two boys. Let's hope they can keep it together.

mjhickeyie

jelutong wrote: »

Chris Meeke currently in 1st place overall and Craig Breen in 3rd in Rally Finland.
Fingers crossed.

It's great. I never thought I'd see 2 Irish guys on the podium in Finland of all places.

Meeke awesome on ouninpohja.
Hopefully they can keep it going.

h3000

34 more stage kilometres for the boys tomorrow. Fingers crossed we will see them both on the podium.

h3000

Breen just got his first WRC stage win and has 7.9 seconds back to Neuville with the power stage to go. Fingers and toes crossed. Kris is way out in front and just needs to bring it home. The power stage goes live at 11:08gmt

mjhickeyie

h3000 wrote: »

Breen just got his first WRC stage win and has 7.9 seconds back to Neuville with the power stage to go. Fingers and toes crossed. Kris is way out in front and just needs to bring it home. The power stage goes live at 11:08gmt

Perfect time to get his first stage win.

Can't wait for power stage!!

finnharpsboy

3rd place for Breen.

In tears at the end.

One for Jaffa.

finnharpsboy

Victory for Meeke and Nagle.

Breen waiting at the line for him.

mjhickeyie

Brilliant!

h3000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ6H5Iic9QE

h3000

The WRC need to hire this video maker. His videos are excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q42jT7AsNFE

h3000

Rally China has been cancelled due to poor road conditions after heavy rains

http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/august-2016/rally-china/page/3810--12-12-.html

h3000

Stefan Lefebvre has had what seems to have been a massive off in SS10 of Rally Germany. They are reported to be injured but ok. Apparently they were stuck in the car for a while. Fingers crossed they will be okay.

jelutong

Seems to be a very dangerous rally. Doubtful that crews enjoy it very much.

h3000

Seems to have been a real big one. Both lads seem to have fractures and some internal injuries but thankfully non life threatening.
Official update here http://www.adac-rallye-deutschland.de/uk/artikel/update-incident-during-the-rally-the-driver-and-co-driver-of-car-number-10-were-taken-to-hospital-and-examined-230874

All rallying can be dangerous but Panzerplatte is a particularly nasty stage when things go wrong.

h3000

https://twitter.com/SLefebvreRallye/status/767036198279798784

Thankfully the guys seem to be okay after this.

X

https://twitter.com/eWRCresults/status/767040620594663424

finnharpsboy

Did they hit one of those hinkelstein things?

h3000

finnharpsboy wrote: »

Did they hit one of those hinkelstein things?

Not too sure but it was the Panzerplatte stage.

finnharpsboy

h3000 wrote: »

Not too sure but it was the Panzerplatte stage.

Jari Matti (second to arrive at the crash site) thinks Lefevbre's suspension broke on a right hander and they hit the trees.

h3000

finnharpsboy wrote: »

Jari Matti (second to arrive at the crash site) thinks Lefevbre's suspension broke on a right hander and they hit the trees.

Oh right. I've been trying to follow the rally today but my two year old has other ideas. Delacour had a similar accident in the Lancer in Australia.

Colser

Can anyone here tell me where the stages for Galway summer rally are this year..I can only find entry list online?

h3000

Colser wrote: »

Can anyone here tell me where the stages for Galway summer rally are this year..I can only find entry list online?

Rally HQ Is in Gort so the stages should be in that ish area. As for the stages themselves you should pick up a rally programme.

h3000

finnharpsboy wrote: »

Jari Matti (second to arrive at the crash site) thinks Lefevbre's suspension broke on a right hander and they hit the trees.

The official WRC YouTube channel has a video of the lead up to the crash. He went wide coming out of a cut on a right hand bend. He then hit a number of hinkelstein and went into the trees. Thankfully the seem to be okay all things considered. It was a big one.

h3000

It was a real nasty one for Gabin.

https://twitter.com/OpensTightens/status/767255154995363840

h3000

Good rally. Just a 1/10th of a second between second and third overall.