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joe_the_waiter
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 Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject: WRC Rally Australia 2009 |
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World Championship rally action comes to New South Wales for the first time this September. The WRC will thunder across the Northern Rivers in the four days from Thursday 3 September to Sunday 6 September, 2009.
This is one of the world’s great motor sport events. This is real, raw, pure motorsport. The drivers, the best in the world - artists at the wheel.
Eat the dust, hear the stones fly, actually see the driver’s hands work and the wide, unblinking eyes of total concentration as the car dances through the bends at 160 kmh and on the razor’s edge of control.
This is World Championship rallying at its best.
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joe_the_waiter
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| Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Place your bets please ............ |
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skodaman
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I think either a Focus or C4 will win! |
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joe_the_waiter
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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ok... my top 3..
J M Latvala
S Loeb
M Hirvonen
if Hirv is in front of JML, then team tactics will come to play, so i am only putting JML in front as i think Seb will stay ahead of Loeb on this one.
watch for a strong showing by Seb Ogier also... poss 4th |
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Gav Taylor
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:11 am Post subject: |
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without seeing any times from this rally yet
Hirvo
JML
Loeb
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club sec
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:47 am Post subject: |
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| The WRC is indesperate need of some more manufacturers it's just so boring. |
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Gav Taylor
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:53 am Post subject: |
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each to their own Sec.
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joe_the_waiter
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:02 am Post subject: |
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Boring??????
you dont even watch it... so how would you know? |
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club sec
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| Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:26 am Post subject: |
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That's why I don't watch it.
WRC killed the sport |
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joe_the_waiter
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| Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Well, if JML hadnt been unlucky and got two punctures on two stages, my prediction would of been accurate. Or at least before Citroens penalty. Well, altho the result was different to what i predicted.... JML still was prob the quickest overall, Loeb indeed was quicker than Hirv and Ogier certainly had a strong showing. (led in initial stages).
All is now looking good for a possible title fight on Rally GB, depending on the Spanish result. Certainly likely as i think Spain will be Loeb, Sordo, Hirv. which of course will secure the Manufacturers title for Citroen. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| It appears the FIA have p***ed on Citroens chips. |
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joe_the_waiter
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| Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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Citroen will still win the manufacturers championship in my opinion....
JML's mistakes earlier in the year will haunt the team i think.
The Citroen 1 min penalty by the way was for using unHomologated anti roll bar drop links.... |
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joe_the_waiter
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Important news item i scourced through SDMC website.........
The organisers of Repco Rally Australia have released preliminary information collected by an independent team of environmental scientists from Biolink Pty Ltd, led by respected scientist Dr Stephen Phillips, following the conclusion of the event last Sunday.
"Firstly, in the months prior to the rally we thoroughly inspected the entire competition route and noted all potential habitats for koalas, lyrebirds and any other threatened species. With the organisers we assembled a team of people and a plan to install various measures as outlined in our final reports of July 2009," Dr Phillips explained.
"On the morning of each day of the rally two teams each comprising three ecologists surveyed the entire competition course prior to the running of the first car .
"Accompanied by a team of hard-working volunteer officials we installed a total of more than seven kilometres of temporary animal fencing and placed almost 40 monitors in strategic locations along each stage, while pollution booms and sediment traps were also installed at all key water crossings and streams. Special guardians were also placed where koalas were located in trees alongside the road during our pre-rally survey.
"Following the passage of the last car in the rally, the environmental teams again inspected the stage and recorded any injured or killed animals that had not been present in the pre-event inspection.
"This was one of the most thorough operations that has been undertaken anywhere in the world.
"The most pleasing aspect was the results were far better than anyone would have expected. We only found a small number of killed animals which, quite frankly, is arguably less than you would normally expect to find on these roads. We put this down to the gradual build-up of rally activity over the morning of each day of the event.
"Importantly, there was no evidence of any animal having been killed in the small areas of National Park traversed by the rally.
"All-up for the 344 kms of rally activity we recorded a total of two lizards, four snakes, nine birds and a single mammal, which was much less than expected for this number of competing vehicles.
"Most importantly, no threatened fauna, including koalas, were killed or injured.
"Despite claims made to the contrary in the weeks leading up to the rally, the results validate the conclusions reached in our July reports that the rally would have no significant impact on threatened species."
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