Random Thoughts / World of Rally
by Tom Stajduhar · Published July 7, 2013 · Last modified July 8, 2013
Not being from the US or the UK, I’m kind of familiar with the “this content is not available in your area” messages, popping up on various online services, such as radio, music or video streams. One such service is this year’s FIA European Rallycross Championship. It definitely is exciting and popular, but sadly, it’s...
Everybody knows what the deal is at the moment. World Rally Championship is trying hard to save a buck and control the costs, but at the same time it cannot afford to lose it’s character and diminish the meaning of “world” in it’s name. So we get plenty of rounds in Europe, none in Asia,...
Well, it’s not all about Formula 1 yet, but bit by bit, and we could end up with a full F1 race Twitter coverage on what claims to be official Twitter account of the World Rally Championship. I get the love of motorsport, I get the fascination with Formula 1, as a major motorsport… thing,...
After 2013 Rally Sweden in February, which was Jarkko Nikara’s last outing in a MINI WRC car, the two will join forces once again in the upcoming Rally Finland. Nikara first drove MINI WRC last year in Spain, and managed a fifth place finish. For his home event in Finland, Jarkko is specially motivated –...
The second video (below) is now probably pretty famous already – a pack of spectators, let’s call them ill informed, decided to run across the track less then a second before the storming Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak, driven by Sebastien Loeb, raced by. All of it was captured by the guy standing on the...
This year’s Rally Estonia will be all sorts exciting. From Jari-Matti Latvala driving a historic beast, called Audi Quattro, to the just announced batch of Ford Fiesta R5 cars, as they start their conquest of the world’s rally stages. Two young Estonian hopefuls, Martin Kangur and Karl Kruuda, will drive the two Fiestas, run by...
Random Thoughts / World of Rally
by Tom Stajduhar · Published July 3, 2013 · Last modified July 4, 2013
According to one of the comments on this post, Sebastien Ogier and Jari-Matti Latvala comments on Pikes Peak were collected weeks before the race, and they weren’t questioned about Sebastien Loeb personally. Which means I took it a bit too far, and Maxrally also played it well, skipping on few important bits, subtly adding Loeb’s...
This is what Sebastien Loeb said to Peugeot’s PR crew after his record breaking attempt in Pikes Peak International Hill Climb race. I don’t think this interview is descriptive enough, though, but I also think it’s hard to put all the emotions and sensations into words. Regardless, it’s a nice little insight into what was...
