2011 World Rally Championship

[Aaron DeMarre]

I think they can name the teams who drive for them manufacturer points this year like Ford has done but I don't know if they have done so.
Seems there's no Citroen junior team like last year. Just two manufacturer cars and the rest are rental packages.

Ok, thats what I thought. The interview I read from Petter sounded like they were still working on a deal to register the private teams for manf. points, so I imagine there will be some sort of junior team after Sweden.

 

[Ondrej Kapal]

So Hanninen did it, won also SS2 with 15.1 seconds different between second Solberg... Kopecký ended 4th with gap of 28 secs

next live coverage starts in an hour and 15 minutes http://videos.eurosport.com/irc/ral...-monte-carlo-day-1_vid162589/irc-player.shtml

 

[Ondrej Kapal]

next SS starts 16:00 GMT+1

 

[Oscar Hardwick]

:O I will give this a watch when I get home.

 

[Ondrej Kapal]

Mikkelsen just said that the crash was because of cold tyres which they had problems to warm ... such a shame for him

 

[Ondrej Kapal]

Hanninen is second in SS4 by 0.8 sec behind Loix.

Final standings after day one

 

[Kordian Ochocki]

I hope that WRC will be in Polnad in 2012.

 

[Jakub Sulej]

I hope that WRC will be in Polnad in 2012.

I hope so, it would be graet rally like in 2009.

 

[Ondrej Kapal]

1.Bouffier-Panseri (207 S2000) 2:14:38.1 hod
2.Delecour-Savignoni (207 S2000) + 28.7s
3.Loix-Miclotte (Fabia S2000) + 1:06.3min
4.Wilks-Pugh (207 S2000) + 1:21.2
5.Sarrazin-Renucci (207 S2000) + 1:41.8
6.Hänninen-Markkula (Fabia S2000) + 2:36.0
7.Solberg-Patterson (207 S2000) + 3:49.8
8.Vouilloz-Veillas (Fabia S2000) + 5:31.7
9.Kopecký-Starý (Fabia S2000) + 7:52.4
10.Gardemeister-Tuominen (207 S2000) + 7:53.4

 

[Hannu Karesola]

Cool that we can watch this rally live on Eurosport! Today's last two special stages were very interesting because it was snowing and the weather became worse and worse all the time. Shame that Hänninen, Solberg and Kopecky didn't believe it and went to those staes with slicks/intermediate tyres when others had snow or studded tyres. That was a huge mistake and they practically lost the game on two stages. Of course they suffered from the snow even more because they drove last and more snow was then on road.
Well I'm sure that tomorrow we'll see those guys attacking hard and trying to save as much as possible. At least Hänninen can still take back couple of places.

I have to say WRC has lot to learn from IRC broadcasting.

 

[Ondrej Kapal]

I agree, LIVE broadcast of rally is just something I could only dream of... its really interesting, jumping from car-to-car and comparing times just as they are... amazing thing, well done Eurosport

 

[Omer Said]

Poor Hanninen, the snow was really unexpected. A big respect to Delecour, he shows how to do it to the younglings

 

[Hannu Karesola]

I agree, LIVE broadcast of rally is just something I could only dream of... its really interesting, jumping from car-to-car and comparing times just as they are... amazing thing, well done Eurosport

Yeah couldn't believe how interesting live rally broadcast can actually be. Last stages live late this evening so it should be dark.

 

[Ondrej Kapal]

Rallye Monte Carlo 2011
1.Bouffier-Panseri (207) 3:32:55.6hod
2.Loix-Miclotte (Fabia) + 32.5s
3.Wilks-Pugh (207) + 1:19.7min
4.Sarrazin-Renucci (207) + 1:21.9
4.Wilks-Pugh (207) + 1:19.7
5.Delecour-Savignoni (207) + 1:22.4
6.Hänninen-Markkula (Fabia) + 1:29.3
7.Vouilloz-Veillas (Fabia) + 4:47.8
8.Kopecký-Starý (Fabia) + 7:45.9
9.Basso-Dotta (207) + 8:46.0
10.Gardemeister-Tuominen (207) + 9:09.0

shame Škoda :/:/ very good performance by Bouffier, it looks like there isnt only one winning car this time...

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

agree, the live coverage is great. I only ever watched one stage (second to last one, but it was great. Nice to see a non-favourite win, too.

 

[Jax Humanhater]

Damn! I wish I had HD Theatre in the States!

 

[Aaron DeMarre]

Sweden less than a week off :eek:

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

Interesting first day with a privateer leading the pack and Loeb down already by 2:30 secs thx to a) having to clean the road as first starter and b) a puncture on SS/ which cost him 1 min.
Full stage reports, results and some videos found at WRC online headquarters:

http://www.wrc.com/

 

[Krister Larsson]

Additional info at http://www.rallysweden.com/live?lang=en

 

[Hannu Karesola]

This season looks very interesting. Privateers have same cars than works teams atm and there's a lot of them. Also new cars look and sound very good and drivers are driving them really sideways because there's less electrical systems in drive train. Looking froward tomorrows stages.

Only thing which bothers me is wrc.com web site. Videos doesn't work with Firefox or IE and its the same issue with my both computers. Also live timing is very buggy but it at least works somehow when refreshing the page enough.