By the way now I see that aside of U27 Ingram won among all R2 by 0,1 seconds over Delgado.
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By the way now I see that aside of U27 Ingram won among all R2 by 0,1 seconds over Delgado.
Rallypower, the Skoda Fabia R5 are owned by Aloísio Monteiro and serviced by ARC Sport ;) Not the same.
Super result of Bruno and my friend Hugo. They deserve all the best things are going on in this season.
Luky? Superbe, another level all weekend and in a non EVO2 car (Kajto EVO2). Congrats Alexey and Arnautov :)
Great performance for Luky and Magelhaes (probably leading the championship?), but also for Michel, for who it was his first foreign event I think. He finished only 9s behind Lopez and in front of Griebel and Gryazin. He will suffer on gravel for sure, but might fight for the title anyway.
I don't understand what happened with Bouffier this weekend. Never was fast, very disappointing. Same for Griebel who should have been up there with Lopez and Michel.
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Get in ! 2 out of 2 ! What an insane rally 😳👌 one of the most rewarding wins yet 😅 car was fantastic @Opel and perfect job @EAERallying https://t.co/hX7oEvqmOE
Not much competition at the front for sure, Lukyanuk really dominated. Very strong on tarmac now, Kopecky should be worried for Barum.
No sure I agree on your analysis of the rest, who are these regular gentleman drivers you are referring to? The younsters aren't yet consistent enough but I think Gryazin, Griebel, Michel and the Peugeot guys all seem to have potential.
Do agree on Bouffier though, I don't know what's happened to him. He wasn't great on Monte or Corsica but I thought at the time that was just because he was up against Mikkelsen in a works Skoda. I was glad to see him join the championship but i hope he improves and gets up to speed again soon.
I meant drivers like Thurn und Taxis, Botka, the Polish guys, Bostanci and so on. About the Peugeot guys, Michel, Gryazin and others I´m with you, About Griebel I´m not sure. At Cyprus last year there was no real competition, at Azores he might have been lucky, but this time he didn´t mention any problems with the car in after stage comments, but just only reached 10th position. I´d expected more from him.
Griebels focus is actually U28 R5 where he increased his lead...
Grzegorz Grzyb is 40 years old, he is current Polish rally champion, 4-times Slovakian rally champion, Polish Super 1600 winner in 2007 and has many other class titles on his account. He was also an official driver for Peugeot Polska team. He will never be European champion, but comparing him to gentleman drivers is an insult.
Maybe I'm strange, but I liked Rally Islas Canarias a lot and don't understand Wuffs1's criticism.
Also U27 mixed with some local 2WD drivers was very good in Canarias.
I liked too and I’m quite optimistic about ’17 ERC, but Wuff remark is understandable. Having just 3 or 4 favourite drivers in the series is a bit short, but as long each event provides strong local drivers fields we shouldn’t be unhappy. Actually, local drivers ability to fight with ERC regulars has been one of the series upsides and distinctive signs. I also believe that some of the U28’s drivers will be able to progress and discuss first places in a short time.
Agree. What I meant to say is that if Magalhães manages to run the series (it’s not certain yet) I’ll be obviously wishing he wins it, despite having no doubts that Lukyanuk is one step above all the others and deserves to get his name on ERC’s champions honour roll.
Interesting. I don’t know the details of the deal between Monteiro and ARC, but what matters to underline is that ARC Sport has one (now two, apparently) brand new Fabia R5 available for Magalhães (and other drivers) and they’re a hugely reliable team.
Strange choice for Colin McRae Trophy:
https://www.fiaerc.com/suarez-wins-c...at-out-trophy/
Agree. For me there was only possible name for the trophy - Lukyanuk.
With such driving style it's easy to make a mistake :)
https://www.facebook.com/PassatsDeCa...5289574989028/
It's kind of difficult to speak about 3-4 drivers. The thing is that unlike in WRC the ERC drivers aren't totally dominant everywhere they go (at least not that much since Škoda works team left the competition). In other words the same drivers who could have been rather slow in Canarias may and possibly will shine elsewhere. For example I'm quite sure that Černý can fight for the podium in Barum, Gryazin or Sirmacis will be very strong in Liepaja, Gryzb in Rzeszów etc.
Amazing shots of Jan Černý's crash in SS4 ! :disturb:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_Okrq5XoAAwzv6.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_Okrq_W0AESBtb.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_OkxVWXsAE4A2r.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_OkzT0XYAAThv9.jpg:large
Both Czerny and Kasperczyk are lucky that the barriers in Spain are better than the ones in Andora...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMt5w1I_e4E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sraayrBmuD4
Yesterday during Rally Vyškov Zdeněk Pokorný (owner of Černý's car and an active rally driver himself) said that the team actually wanted to restart under superally but it was not possible due to lack of some spares available for reasonable price. He said the damage to the car isn't that bad as it looks on the photos.
Jarek, this particular rails were possibly already damaged from Robert Kubica. Maybe without his crash the concrete fundaments would resit.
What I like about the ERC is that the local drivers can compete on a semi-even playing field with the ERC series regulars (of course their equipment may not be quite as good). Whereas in WRC/WRC2 you have no chance being against the factory teams. So this does give more variety and the potential for an upset. But I do agree that this round was a little bit of a disappointment in the lack of the other ERC regulars being able to keep up with the clearly best driver. However I am big Alexey fan, so I am glad to see him get a car to a finish line and the perfect result.
Huttunen's press release said he had set up issues on SS1 which made the car understeer a lot and in order to preserve tyres he lost a lot of time. They did set up work throughout the event.
Ingram could say he just controlled his pace, but a lead that was never over a half a minute is hardly a safe lead. A slow puncture or spins could've changed it all. Also, Ingram started ahead of Huttunen. Still, Ingram hasn't put a foot wrong on these first two events, it must be said. I am very entertained by this duel and of course hoping that Huttunen could take the next round
Assuming he was brought up on gravel, if Huttunen was matching Ingram for pace on tarmac that would be pretty incredible.
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No, bad assumption... he started in karting. He also won the ADAC Opel Rally Cup which includes several tarmac rallies.
Guys, have you ever wondered who is the most popular driver in the ERC? Maybe Lukyanuk, who totally dominated Rally Islas Canarias and won it in a great style? No, I look at the YouTube video "The best of Lukyanuk" and what do I see? Only 4000 views. Far from impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lwle-xUqrc
So maybe Kajetanowicz, two-time European Rally Champion? I look at the YouTube video "Kajetanowicz/Baran - Leg 2 Highlights"... Phew! Just 1600 views!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q4cErGcVp0
But look at Kasperczyk.... Now that is a completely different story and completely different numbers! 790 000 views! Everyone has their 5 minutes of fame :)
https://www.fiaerc.com/erc-junior-ka...really-scared/
So how come that is?
Here comes the sequel - Tomasz Kasperczyk's CRASH: The Day After. 18 000 viewers so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utEIgYe--wQ