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GravelBen said:
Looking a lot better than it did a month ago!
Still not pretty, but looking waaaay quicker now.Ogier and Ingrassia on it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOmJuECGVM
Just watched the video linked above and saw this afterwards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLP2q28J9ms
Looks pretty minor but nice recovery work by the M-Sport guys nonetheless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLP2q28J9ms
Looks pretty minor but nice recovery work by the M-Sport guys nonetheless
GravelMachineGun said:
df76 said:
Channel 5 (including HD) are listing a WRC highlights programme at 19:00 on Monday, so same as last year.
Or watch it live on Red Bull TV. All events will be live on RBTV this year.
Good guys red bull.
There will be live free coverage of each event, but only a limited number of stages.
http://www.redbull.com/gb-en/wrc-red-bull-tv-2017
http://www.redbull.com/gb-en/wrc-red-bull-tv-2017
K50 DEL said:
He's come a long way, I competed against him on one of the first UK events he ever did (may actually have been the first) and I wasn't hugely impressed.
I remember him doing a SV in N.Wales. Got beaten by 1.0 Micras! To be fair he did have a broken clutch but couldn't retire as he needed a finish for his licence upgrade. Enjoyable time at shakedown today, the new cars are definitely louder and you can really see the extra power as they launch out of the corners! The Hyundai's and Toyota's sound incredible!
Hanninen hit a wall in front of us while one of the R5 ds3s spun and had to be pushed back on.
Loads of police and marshals on such a short stage, they really weren't taking any crap either!
Tomorrow we recce a couple stages, before heading to stage 2
Hanninen hit a wall in front of us while one of the R5 ds3s spun and had to be pushed back on.
Loads of police and marshals on such a short stage, they really weren't taking any crap either!
Tomorrow we recce a couple stages, before heading to stage 2
Allyc85 said:
Enjoyable time at shakedown today, the new cars are definitely louder and you can really see the extra power as they launch out of the corners! The Hyundai's and Toyota's sound incredible!
Hanninen hit a wall in front of us while one of the R5 ds3s spun and had to be pushed back on.
Loads of police and marshals on such a short stage, they really weren't taking any crap either!
Tomorrow we recce a couple stages, before heading to stage 2
It's a poor substitute for being there, but I've been watching some of the numerous YT videos of today's shakedowwn, the cars look and sound epic :Hanninen hit a wall in front of us while one of the R5 ds3s spun and had to be pushed back on.
Loads of police and marshals on such a short stage, they really weren't taking any crap either!
Tomorrow we recce a couple stages, before heading to stage 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXYuK4VKBB4
should be an awesome event and hopefully a really competitive year.
Your predictions please gentlemen ;
1st Business as usual. Ogier (unless MSport's reliability lets him down)
2nd Meeke (unless he crashes, which seems quite likely, may only be a silly indiscretion, but it will break something or put him off the road for a couple of minutes and out of contention)
3rd Neuville
4th Paddon ? or Sordo ?
5th Latvala (lots of reliability issues along with a few offs)
Edited by Slippydiff on Thursday 19th January 00:19
Paddon has only done Monte once and inconsistent slippery tarmac is his his least favourite surface, so if he places well this weekend it will probably be down to playing it safe and staying on the road while others fall off.
My pick of top 3 contenders for Monte are Ogier, Meeke and Neuville as well (in any order).
Haven't had a chance to watch shakedown vids yet but you can't read much into it with drivers playing tyre strategy games etc anyway.
My pick of top 3 contenders for Monte are Ogier, Meeke and Neuville as well (in any order).
Haven't had a chance to watch shakedown vids yet but you can't read much into it with drivers playing tyre strategy games etc anyway.
Edited by GravelBen on Thursday 19th January 02:12
K50 DEL said:
DanielSan said:
RBTV app is downloaded and the reminders are set!
Me too.... more excited about this season than I have been for a long time.Busting for this season to kick off!! looking at the vids of shakedown, there isn't much difference over the cars of last season tbh. but full attack will certainly tell and not much can be taken from shakedown.
Meeke apparently was running soft/slick compounds during his runs so as not to use up all his snow allocation.
The cars seem to move about more than testing vids, probably down to the snowy conditions, again time will tell.
and I also wonder how long before the front lip gets some sort of revision, one theme i noticed with all the cars going through one corner was the icy slush being kicked up by the lip straight onto the windscreen. that'll be a nightmare in Sweden and on really dusty events! May not be such a problem if as we all suspect it isn't going to stay attached to the car for longer than one flat out competitive stage!
Looking forward to as much live stuff as I can fit in, I've got a free month on WRC+ until the end of the month, and only recently realised I had free 6months BTsport app subscription with my new mobile contract. should cover me for Monte and Sweden.
I wonder also how the free red bull stuff is going to hit WRC+, as i still have no desire to pay for a full year as the free subscriptions I used last year showed me it still wasn't worth full price as still not enough live content.
Meeke apparently was running soft/slick compounds during his runs so as not to use up all his snow allocation.
The cars seem to move about more than testing vids, probably down to the snowy conditions, again time will tell.
and I also wonder how long before the front lip gets some sort of revision, one theme i noticed with all the cars going through one corner was the icy slush being kicked up by the lip straight onto the windscreen. that'll be a nightmare in Sweden and on really dusty events! May not be such a problem if as we all suspect it isn't going to stay attached to the car for longer than one flat out competitive stage!
Looking forward to as much live stuff as I can fit in, I've got a free month on WRC+ until the end of the month, and only recently realised I had free 6months BTsport app subscription with my new mobile contract. should cover me for Monte and Sweden.
I wonder also how the free red bull stuff is going to hit WRC+, as i still have no desire to pay for a full year as the free subscriptions I used last year showed me it still wasn't worth full price as still not enough live content.
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