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Today, 17:36
Thread: [WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2024
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At least Neuville's, Tanak's and Evans' points...
At least Neuville's, Tanak's and Evans' points are stable. Hopefully we would not end season with different sites crowning different driver as champion...
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Yesterday, 07:56
Thread: [WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2024
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Did Jan Solans get 3 points for his 8th place at...
Did Jan Solans get 3 points for his 8th place at the end of saturday? Wikipedia and WRC site shows he didn't, eWRC shows he did.
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11th May 2024, 17:35
Thread: [WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2024
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He fought hard in Sweden to the end despite being...
He fought hard in Sweden to the end despite being 45th at the end of saturday.
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10th May 2024, 16:25
Thread: WRC Calendar 2025
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Sardinia is weird one. I don't hate it but no...
Sardinia is weird one. I don't hate it but no matter if I think about southern european gravel rounds (Portugal, Greece), Italy (San Remo), or Mediterranean islands (Corsica), Sardinia is in shadow...
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10th May 2024, 15:49
Thread: [WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2024
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Are we talking about same Alonso? Fantastic...
Are we talking about same Alonso? Fantastic driver but he LOVES moaning about stuff.
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10th May 2024, 15:35
Thread: WRC Calendar 2025
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Hopefully next year they will sign multi-year...
Hopefully next year they will sign multi-year extenstion. WRC lost too many classics already.
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10th May 2024, 15:08
Thread: [WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2024
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More like Alonso, was champion but not as many...
More like Alonso, was champion but not as many times as someone could expect and has history of team changes that didn't work out.
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10th May 2024, 11:52
Thread: [WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2024
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With 8-9 Rally1 cars per rally, things are...
With 8-9 Rally1 cars per rally, things are desperate enough for commentators to not judge participating drivers too harshly.
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5th May 2024, 21:40
Thread: [ERC] Rally Islas Canarias 2024
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Variety. With 4-5 tarmac rallies in calendar,...
Variety. With 4-5 tarmac rallies in calendar, it's good to have some successor to circuit-like Catalunya. Rally wasn't super interesting but wasn't that bad either, I liked saturday stages more....
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3rd May 2024, 13:56
Thread: WRC PICKEMS 2024 - Round 5 RALLY PORTUGAL
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1 Neuville 2 Rovanpera 3 Ogier 4 Tanak 5 Evans 6...
1 Neuville 2 Rovanpera 3 Ogier 4 Tanak 5 Evans 6 Sordo 7 Fourmaux 8 Katsuta Backa
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29th April 2024, 09:28
Thread: WRC main class in 2025
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Latvala already said for 2025-2026 they should...
Latvala already said for 2025-2026 they should just take the hybrids out.
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25th April 2024, 10:04
Thread: WRC Calendar 2025
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That's little surprising, for me Croatia in EA...
That's little surprising, for me Croatia in EA WRC is disappointing and feels rather dull. It's partially due to too clean and smooth tarmac and partially due to Bliznec-Pila being weird choice for...
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25th April 2024, 09:37
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I would like for day 1 to change cleaning driver...
I would like for day 1 to change cleaning driver after every stage.
Stage 1: NEU EVA FOU OGI TAN KAT MIK MUN
Stage 2: EVA FOU OGI TAN KAT MIK MUN and NEU moved to back of WRC1 list
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19th April 2024, 11:40
Thread: [WRC] Croatia Rally 2024
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No one has whole picture, even Mikkelsen. And...
No one has whole picture, even Mikkelsen. And it's not courtroom, opinion that Mikkelsen's driving is disappointing so far isn't as ridiculous as you painted it.
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18th April 2024, 20:48
Thread: [WRC] Croatia Rally 2024
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But we also have post-saturday points reset. I...
But we also have post-saturday points reset. I would say friday's issues matter less this year for overall point gain than in previous seasons.
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16th April 2024, 18:49
Thread: WRC main class in 2025
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I doubt AI driving is future of motorsport lol....
I doubt AI driving is future of motorsport lol. Chess engines are much better than homo sapiens for years but people still prefer to watch Carlsen vs Nakamura than Stockfish vs AlphaZero
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16th April 2024, 14:54
Thread: Rally Discussion and Bar Talk Thread
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It's wishful thinking but maybe Kalle just...
It's wishful thinking but maybe Kalle just reached his peak level very early and will not improve past that too much while guys like Solberg, Sesks and Pajari will keep improving and catch up to him...
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15th April 2024, 13:06
Thread: WRC Pickems 2024 - R4 RALLY CROATIA
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1 Neuville 2 Ogier 3 Evans 4 Tanak 5 Fourmaux 6...
1 Neuville 2 Ogier 3 Evans 4 Tanak 5 Fourmaux 6 Mikkelsen 7 Katsuta 8 Lindholm Backa
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It's other way around for me, I followed WRC...
It's other way around for me, I followed WRC semi-regularly in 2010s but discovering some rally games, then Red Bull TV get me hooked on more and I decided to subscribe to Rally.tv last year
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5th April 2024, 19:03
Thread: WRC main class in 2025
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Not sure if potentially losing Toyota, Hyundai...
Not sure if potentially losing Toyota, Hyundai and M-Sport would be better than finding some common ground. WRC keeping hybrids for 2025 and 2026 is not death sentence.
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5th April 2024, 18:55
Thread: 2024 WRC News & Rumours
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91% is quite specific lol. Sesks is good...
91% is quite specific lol.
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31st March 2024, 19:06
Thread: 2024 - New Point Scoring System
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For Kenya: 27 Rovanpera 18 Katsuta...
For Kenya:
27 Rovanpera
18 Katsuta
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31st March 2024, 18:47
Thread: [WRC] Safari Rally Kenya 2024
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Sure, I was just mocking "rallying is not for...
Sure, I was just mocking "rallying is not for you" argument that was used by AndyRAC.
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31st March 2024, 16:31
Thread: [WRC] Safari Rally Kenya 2024
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It doesn't need to be flat out all the time but...
It doesn't need to be flat out all the time but reducing cruising is not exactly bad thing.
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31st March 2024, 16:08
Thread: WRC Calendar 2025
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"WRC Promoter had been working towards a 14-event...
"WRC Promoter had been working towards a 14-event schedule for 2024, but event director Simon Larkin has cited the need to bring more Rally1 cars into the championship as the reason for sticking with...
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Another variant on standings from FIA. Solans, farewell. Sordo too.
[WRC] Vodafone Rally de Portugal...