IRC candidate Rally Estonia

[bluuford]

It is at the same week as rally Acores. 16-18th of July.

More information here: http://www.rallyestonia.ee/2010/

First entries have received already: http://autosport.ee/rallyreg/?page=27&race_id=80&lang_id=2&

This event has been always popular among those who like to have some practice before rally Finland (one and half week later).

Those who have more time and plan to visit rally Finland I suggest to visit this rally as well.
Nice jumps, nice lakes, warm weather, good beer :-)

Another news just arrived that Markko Märtin takes part in this rally with Focus WRC
link:
http://sport.postimees.ee/?id=272981

[Luis Pacheco]

It is at the same week as rally Acores. 16-18th of July.

Another news just arrived that Markko Märtin takes part in this rally with Focus WRC
link:
http://sport.postimees.ee/?id=272981

This year marks 10 years that Markko Martin won his first international rallye, at Azores with the Impreza WRC 98 from Cilti Sport. ;)

[ARF]

there's no such thing as an IRC-candidate event. there are WRC-candidate events, a status which one could obtain by paying 100-150K euros to FIA.

[noel157]

True, they are called IRC Supporter Events.

[bluuford]

Yeah, the name is different but the general point is the same. Some kind of officials are coming to the rally to see if it meets all the requirements and what are the contras and what are the pros to include the event into the series.

Latest updates about the entries.
1.It was said that Georg Gross is going to run newer model of Focus in this rally.
2.Gardemeister is coming. Car is not sure yet. He hopes to get 4WD car but if not then he will use his BMW
3. There is high possibility that Ketomaa will come with Fiesta as well.
4. There are negotiations with Kresta in S2000 car.
5. Tänak will be there with his usual Subaru
They hope to get approximately 10 WRCars and about the same number of S2000 cars.

[PLuto]

I dont believe to Kresta with S2000 car. If he will go, he will use Mitsubishi. But Martin Prokop should be there with Fiesta.

[bluuford]

Yes, Prokop and Kakko are in entry list already with Fiestas and Shaymiev with 207 S2000. I might have heard it wrong about Kresta, maybe they just said that they hope to get him with GrN car.

[Hartusvuori]

Bluuford, is there a chance that Gross could enter NORF with Focus or will he settle for Group N entry?

[Mirek]

4. There are negotiations with Kresta in S2000 car.

Asked a friend from the team and he told me that they don't have plans to start in Estonia.

[Raini]

Markko Märtin is officially on the list, but co-driver's place is marked for "TH", which means "will tell you later"...

[Allar]

Toni Gardemeister will use Fiesta s2000 in Rally Estonia and allso in Finland

[[Madeira-Rally]]

Toni Gardemeister will use Fiesta s2000 in Rally Estonia and allso in Finland

Nice to see that Gard is back with a good car!

It will be interesting to see his performance in Finland against young boys :)

[Raini]

So, estonian co-driver Kristo Kraag will be driving with Markko Märtin.
http://www.autosport.ee/rallyreg/?page=27&race_id=80&

[Allar]

does anyone have info about Koskelo, Kopra and Hiltunen(heard he sold hes Focus WRC)

[Raini]

Markko had a test yesterday:
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8716/mmtest2.jpghttp://img821.imageshack.us/img821/5643/mmtest1.jpg

[Allar]

Entry list:
http://autosport.ee/rallyreg/?page=27&race_id=80&

[Raini]

Markko won every special stage of the rally.

http://www.autosport.ee/rallyreg/?page=32&race_id=80&

Rally was very good and very well organized in my opinion.

[Mirek]

Any galleries? Here is short onboard of Prokop: http://www.mediasport.cz/rally-cz/video/10_estonia_prokop_01.html

[bluuford]

Under this link you can find all the other links. People used to collect all their links for rally videos and pictures here:
http://rally.ee/?a=a030&b=1961

If you look at the crash of K.Ladygin, then I have to mention that they managed to get out from the forest and finished the stage and the whole rally :-) Only half of the car was made of McGuiver tape :-)

Some more galleries are found here:
http://rally.ee/?a=a024

and some more pictures here:
Day 1
http://www.motorsport.ee/?id=gallery&n=1007

Day 2:
http://www.motorsport.ee/?id=gallery&n=1006

By the way, Markko drove the last stage without notes. He told that it is so well know stage for Estonian drivers that they should remember it by heart. He won that stage and at the end of the stage he said, see, we are here and we didn't got lost :-)

Anyway, it was very nice rally. But it was tooo hot. Every day the temperature was over 31 degrees in the shade :-)

Prokop drove mostly quite sensibly (not on the, limit). Honda with Citroen looked bit rough sometimes. He also went off in front of me on one of the very tricky places, on the last stage of the rally. Many drivers have had much worse off-s there (he decided to brake and go directly into the ditch and forest, if you go off little bit later then there is a big ditch and 30 meters later the ditch ends in the river :-)), but he was pushed back on the road and he lost only over one minute.

[Mirek]

Thank You!

Honda is just gentleman driver and sponsor of many others. He is driving only for fun ;)

[RICARDO75]

This rally should be on IRC next year.
Argentina and Sardignia are out of the calendar 2010 and Azores could return to May, before Ypres

[bluuford]

]Thank You!

Honda is just gentleman driver and sponsor of many others. He is driving only for fun ;)

Yes, It looked so :-) and he was also driving to give specteators some fun as well ;-)

[PMM]

My photos from Mad-Croc Rally Estonia:

http://www.rallikuvat.net/2010/otepaa/index.php

[Mirek]

Does anyone of You have link for historic results?

[bluuford]

]Does anyone of You have link for historic results?

Yes, here they are:
http://autosport.ee/rallyreg/?page=32&race_id=110&lang_id=2&

[Mirek]

Thanks, nice result for Michal Sum :) Some of You know his driving even though You don't know about that. He's been driving as zero car in Barum in last couple of years (white-red crazy Skoda 130RS). Otherwise he starts very rarely (in 2007 he drove Historic ERC).

[Allar]

Rally Estonia is going to be a Historic World Championchips event in future too.

[LP]

those tricky Estonian roads... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjZzWM_aqtE

[bluuford]

those tricky Estonian roads... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjZzWM_aqtE

Very quick job by spectators. In one minute, the car without a few wheels was cleared from the road. And the second accident was very dangerous. Did you heard specific sound during the second crash? It was the spring of the car that flew into the forest just a few meters from the camera.

[bluuford]

Video nr1 (the end is very spectacular :-)):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pJ9-kwykck

Moments and nice driving:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_gfln0jEiU

a few more moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAmoyi1ueZs

A few nice moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn8FGiL8zMY

Long overview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGi7-W6rwvk

Märtin jump is only worth watching after the historic cars;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asyd8ehk-n4

Egon Kaur rally ending crash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBLfH2g98U

Toni Gardemeister special:
http://jxtuubi.com/videos/1169/mad-croc-estonia-rally-2010

Peter Horsey special:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtP7MlbEPTw

Video about the rally girls :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXWk5YdHln4

And this is best ever video of the rally nearly on the same roads in 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4IgRqTNkRc

Those videos are specially for N.O.T:
SS3 (historic) slow motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITiXZkrACgY
SS3 slow motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNyhP6nyw3w
SS6 slow motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiQdQlLQ3qo
SS8 slow motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km1eyQMduhA
SS12 slow motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZnmk-Lvdvs

Enjoy!!!

[N.O.T]

very nice indeed....we need more demanding rallies like those in both IRC and WRC.

[Mirek]

Onboards of Prokop:

SS7: http://www.mediasport.cz/rally-cz/video/10_estonia_prokop_07.html
SS8: http://www.mediasport.cz/rally-cz/video/10_estonia_prokop_08.html
SS10: http://www.mediasport.cz/rally-cz/video/10_estonia_prokop_10.html
SS11: http://www.mediasport.cz/rally-cz/video/10_estonia_prokop_11.html
SS12: http://www.mediasport.cz/rally-cz/video/10_estonia_prokop_12.html

[Petris]

Take a good position and hit slideshow on... Enjoy :D

http://www.petriskog.com/Motorsport/Rally/Mad-Croc-Rally-Estonia-2010/12919250_4GEWe#941535630_GFxBm

[bluuford]

Michael Honda went off on the last stage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH0uU5Ob3rs&feature=digest

But he was pushed out and finished the rally:-) Hopefully you can see him in rally Finland again (he retired before the finish with engine problem)

[bluuford]

Ok. Between the rallies to enjoy some nice footage.
Conclusive video where approximately 20 different cameras were used:

http://rallyvideos.net/videod/mad_croc_rally_estonia2010.html

By default it is very small window. If you like to increase the size you can change the resolution of your screen as low as possible :-)

This just Markko Märtin special:
http://rallyvideos.net/videod/markko_madcroc_special.html

Looking forward to next year :-)