Monster stage for Rally GB

[306 Cosworth]

This stage will run as the last stage and is 71.8km/44.61miles.

It may be split into 2 though.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4582041260_1a7d58c077_o.jpg

[Mirek]

Wau, that's monster thing, really!

If only they were driving without splits in car...

[Hartusvuori]

If that happens it'd be really much cooler to have it as one single stage. Though two 35+ kms stages as rally closer would be cool as well. It would be stylish end to an era of WRCs.

Where is this information from?

How much stage kilometres current WRCs can ran between refuels by the way?

[Ghostwalker]

If that happens it'd be really much cooler to have it as one single stage. Though two 35+ kms stages as rally closer would be cool as well. It would be stylish end to an era of WRCs.

Where is this information from?

How much stage kilometres current WRCs can ran between refuels by the way?

i dont know but i know that in Rally Sweden, when the service were in Karlstad the cars were able to refuel in Hagfors between two stages.
So i guess that the organizers and FIA can put up a refuel point between this stage and the stage prior to it.

[Langdale Forest]

Epic! That's what rallying is all about. :s mokin:

I still belive that they will split into two stages though, but if it is 44 miles and the last stage and there is a championship to be decided, there is no better stage to see who wants the chanpionship title! :)

[N.O.T]

wow....i think it will serve as a graveyard for cars....

[Langdale Forest]

wow....i think it will serve as a graveyard for cars....

Pessamist!!!

[AndyRAC]

If they run it in full, i'll eat my hat......


....the one I don't normally wear..

[306 Cosworth]

Forgot to say it's 60% Gravel and 40% Tar.

[Langdale Forest]

If they run it in full, i'll eat my hat......




The drivers will need to drive more slowley to conserve the fuel! :p

[bassist]

This stage will run as the last stage and is 71.8km/44.61miles.

It may be split into 2 though.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4582041260_1a7d58c077_o.jpg
Well iif they are brave enough to run it as it is then it will be spectacular- Epynt, Route 60, Halfway and Crychan- A real challenge!

[306 Cosworth]

Turns out this isn't real. Apparently there will be some tarmac used on Epynt this year though.

[bassist]

Turns out this isn't real. Apparently there will be some tarmac used on Epynt this year though.
I was fooled!!!!! If only eh!

[J4MIE]

Had to laugh when I read the first post, then it got funnier when people took it seriously :s

Engage brain before posting ;) Just think about it a bit, would you?

[macjam]

Turns out this isn't real. Apparently there will be some tarmac used on Epynt this year though.

What do you mean apparently??

You drew the stage on multimap in a deliberate attempt to wind people up on here as you stated in your facebook status.

[Iskald]

Creative joke though...

Anyway, some 30 years ago they used to have a very famous stage in the swedish BergslagsRally (it was a snow rally normally run in january). The stage was called "Björnjägerens Minne" - translated: The Bear Hunters Memory Stage. It had different lenght every year, and the longest version I can recall was 91 kms! Stig Blomqvist used to drive the Saab 99 Turbo, and the fueltank was too small to complete the stage. So the Saab team sent in a service car with extra fuel on one of the access roads. Stig had to do a pit-stop midstage to get extra fuel, but as I remember he still completed the stage to win it. I think driving time on the stage was close to one hour!

Some swedes on the forum will certainly be able to correct me if I have remembered something wrong, but the "Bear Hunters Memory Stage" surely has to be the monster rally stage of all times (not counting Safari Rally type stages/sections).

[Hartusvuori]

Creative joke though...

Anyway, some 30 years ago they used to have a very famous stage in the swedish BergslagsRally (it was a snow rally normally run in january). The stage was called "Björnjägerens Minne" - translated: The Bear Hunters Memory Stage. It had different lenght every year, and the longest version I can recall was 91 kms! Stig Blomqvist used to drive the Saab 99 Turbo, and the fueltank was too small to complete the stage. So the Saab team sent in a service car with extra fuel on one of the access roads. Stig had to do a pit-stop midstage to get extra fuel, but as I remember he still completed the stage to win it. I think driving time on the stage was close to one hour!

Some swedes on the forum will certainly be able to correct me if I have remembered something wrong, but the "Bear Hunters Memory Stage" surely has to be the monster rally stage of all times (not counting Safari Rally type stages/sections).

I'm too young to know anything about these personally, but once in a Finnish rally forum there were talk about Tunturiralli (Arctic Lapland as it is known nowadays). Apparently there were two stages - Sevettijärvi and Angeli - of which Sevettijärvi was over 100 kms and Angeli some 90 kms. Imagine being caught in the snowbank in the middle of either stage in a weather colder than - 35 degrees...

[DonJippo]

I'm too young to know anything about these personally, but once in a Finnish rally forum there were talk about Tunturiralli (Arctic Lapland as it is known nowadays). Apparently there were two stages - Sevettijärvi and Angeli - of which Sevettijärvi was over 100 kms and Angeli some 90 kms. Imagine being caught in the snowbank in the middle of either stage in a weather colder than - 35 degrees...

Sevettijärvi was 120km long.

[Rallyper]

Creative joke though...

Anyway, some 30 years ago they used to have a very famous stage in the swedish BergslagsRally (it was a snow rally normally run in january). The stage was called "Björnjägerens Minne" - translated: The Bear Hunters Memory Stage. It had different lenght every year, and the longest version I can recall was 91 kms! Stig Blomqvist used to drive the Saab 99 Turbo, and the fueltank was too small to complete the stage. So the Saab team sent in a service car with extra fuel on one of the access roads. Stig had to do a pit-stop midstage to get extra fuel, but as I remember he still completed the stage to win it. I think driving time on the stage was close to one hour!

Some swedes on the forum will certainly be able to correct me if I have remembered something wrong, but the "Bear Hunters Memory Stage" surely has to be the monster rally stage of all times (not counting Safari Rally type stages/sections).

You are so right. It happened in the late 70´s and early 80´s.

[Sardalense]

The biggest stage ever made in Portugal had 70.6km, after that was the 56.5km of Arganil :)

[big_sw2000]

Just out of intreasted, how long were stages on the Saffari Rally

[Hartusvuori]

Just out of intreasted, how long were stages on the Saffari Rally

Copypasted from juwra.com (http://www.juwra.com/safari.html), so far the last WRC Safari in 2002 looked like this

Leg 1 Friday 12-Jul-2002
CS1 Ngema 73.63 km
CS2 Seyabei 1 81.84 km
CS3 Il Damat 1 74.75 km
CS4 Ntulele 1 106.56 km
Leg 1 total: 336.78 km

Leg 2 Saturday 13-Jul-2002
CS5 Kedong 1 73.93 km
CS6 Nailongilok 74.75 km
CS7 Kedong (long) 106.59 km
CS8 Kerrerie 81.67 km 15:20
CS9 Kedong 2 73.93 km
Leg 2 total: 410.87 km

Leg 3 Sunday 14-Jul-2002
CS10 Ntulele 2 106.56 km
CS11 Il Damat 2 74.75 km
CS12 Seyabei 2 81.84 km
Leg 3 total: 263.15 km
Rally total: 1,010.80 km

[Ghostwalker]

Creative joke though...

Anyway, some 30 years ago they used to have a very famous stage in the swedish BergslagsRally (it was a snow rally normally run in january). The stage was called "Björnjägerens Minne" - translated: The Bear Hunters Memory Stage. It had different lenght every year, and the longest version I can recall was 91 kms! Stig Blomqvist used to drive the Saab 99 Turbo, and the fueltank was too small to complete the stage. So the Saab team sent in a service car with extra fuel on one of the access roads. Stig had to do a pit-stop midstage to get extra fuel, but as I remember he still completed the stage to win it. I think driving time on the stage was close to one hour!

Some swedes on the forum will certainly be able to correct me if I have remembered something wrong, but the "Bear Hunters Memory Stage" surely has to be the monster rally stage of all times (not counting Safari Rally type stages/sections).

i did find some basic info here:

http://www.motorsportivarmland.nu/kruse.html

it says that "Björnjägarens Minne" once was 100km long but later was shortened to 40m due to safety reasons.

[Josti]

Copypasted from juwra.com (http://www.juwra.com/safari.html), so far the last WRC Safari in 2002 looked like this

Leg 1 Friday 12-Jul-2002
CS1 Ngema 73.63 km
CS2 Seyabei 1 81.84 km
CS3 Il Damat 1 74.75 km
CS4 Ntulele 1 106.56 km
Leg 1 total: 336.78 km

Leg 2 Saturday 13-Jul-2002
CS5 Kedong 1 73.93 km
CS6 Nailongilok 74.75 km
CS7 Kedong (long) 106.59 km
CS8 Kerrerie 81.67 km 15:20
CS9 Kedong 2 73.93 km
Leg 2 total: 410.87 km

Leg 3 Sunday 14-Jul-2002
CS10 Ntulele 2 106.56 km
CS11 Il Damat 2 74.75 km
CS12 Seyabei 2 81.84 km
Leg 3 total: 263.15 km
Rally total: 1,010.80 km

Comes to think that this was probably the shortest WRC edition of the Safari Rally.

The TdC always had a massive competitive stage distance (especially for a sprint event), regularly exceeding the 1000 km mark. From Jonkka's site; Liamone stage, 83.10 km. These numbers were radically reduced after 1986, for obvious reasons.

[jbmarcus21]

wrong way ... the program of Rally of Great Britain is now published http://planetemarcus.free.fr/grandebretagne10.htm ;)