WRC Sweden

losthorizon

Rally Sweden started yesterday. So far its Ostberg leading followed by Hirvonen and Solberg in very snowey conditions. Does anybody know who is covering it?

frostie500

losthorizon wrote: »

Rally Sweden started yesterday. So far its Ostberg leading followed by Hirvonen and Solberg in very snowey conditions. Does anybody know who is covering it?

9.30pm on ESPN for Day one highlights, they've taken over the contract from DAVE and have promised more "on stage action" rather than interviews with celebrities and the like

lolie

are dave showing any of it this year??

FREDNISMO

Cant find it listed on Dave TV, its on motors tv but there is a lot of in car footage not my cup of tea, was really looking forward this year as well

dcr22B

LIGHTNING wrote: »

I think Dave are only "snowing" the highlights.

Nothing on DAVE at all and I'm disgusted that Setanta have replaced it with roundy roundy fecking NASCAR!

h3000

Seems to be a really exiting rally so far. A lot of fresh snow fall slowed the first few cars on the road yesterday.

Top 10 after stage 11
Pos No Driver Time Diff Prev Diff 1st
1. 3 M. HIRVONEN 1:54:57.5 0.0 0.0
2. 6 M. ØSTBERG 1:54:57.8 +0.3 +0.3
3. 11 P. SOLBERG 1:55:28.5 +30.7 +31.0
4. 4 J. LATVALA 1:55:41.8 +13.3 +44.3
5. 2 S. OGIER 1:56:07.5 +25.7 +1:10.0
6. 1 S. LOEB 1:57:41.1 +1:33.6 +2:43.6
7. 16 P. ANDERSSON 1:59:08.5 +1:27.4 +4:11.0
8. 18 P. SANDELL 1:59:17.3 +8.8 +4:19.8
9. 8 K. RÄIKKONEN 2:00:19.9 +1:02.6 +5:22.4
10. 24 A. GRØNDAL 2:01:57.5 +1:37.6 +7:00.0
*** *** ************* ******* *******
16. 51 C. BREEN 2:07:19.7 +25.2 +12:22.2


Irish man Craig Breen is doing really well for his first snow rally 16OA. He lost 3 or 4 minutes on stage two when another competitors car blocked the stage.

Really hope Petter can catch the front two cars.

dcr22B

h3000 wrote: »

Irish man Craig Breen is doing really well for his first snow rally 16OA. He lost 3 or 4 minutes on stage two when another competitors car blocked the stage.

Really hope Petter can catch the front two cars.

Petter has a 20s penalty as well so in reality, he could only by 10s down.

Wonder why Craig has got no allowance for the stage being blocked?

h3000

dcr22B wrote: »

Wonder why Craig has got no allowance for the stage being blocked?

Don't really know. The info is a bit sketcy about it

www.craigbreen.com/news.php?&id=158 wrote:

At the midway point today Craig was 30th overall. The Waterford driver had an exciting start over the opening four stages, starting out 12th after stage 1. Then on stage two he was held up by a crash that blocked the stage, he then hit a snow bank on the third test and dropped 15 seconds.

homer simpson

the Craig breen one is a bit strange alright if drivers continually fail to receive nominal times when they are entitled to them, like stopping at an accident, eventually they wont stop!

After that last stage he is up to 15th OA, 16 seconds behind block, now and 3rd in S2000

pajor

Only ESPN are showing it this year.

Praying that this season isn't just all about one man from Alsace...

homer simpson

pajor wrote: »

Only ESPN are showing it this year.

Nope its on motors TV too, 1 hour show every night. It mightn't be the best but its better than paying a fortune for ESPN

losthorizon

homer_simpson wrote: »

Nope its on motors TV too, 1 hour show every night. It mightn't be the best but its better than paying a fortune for ESPN

I dont have motors or ESPN

liam7831

I got espn added to my upc package yesterday. €9 extra a month got a few more sports and discovery channels aswell. Well worth the money alone for last night programme top quality stuff. Block was spectacular over colins crest.

Im delighted its gone off dave there coverage was thrash with their z list celebs.

homer simpson

losthorizon wrote: »

I dont have motors or ESPN

http://mypremium.tv/

Play around with the link usually you get a few bad ones but always get at least 1 good link

pajor

Well, its nearly the end of the second day and it's heading for a Ford 1 2 3

*does a little jig*

h3000

Less than 15 seconds seperating the top 5 with just the Super Special left tonight. It's going to be a great fight tomorrow.

Craig Breen up to 15OA, not a bad drive at all.

Gwan Petter:D

After stage 15
Pos No Driver Time Diff Prev Diff 1st
1. 3 M. HIRVONEN 2:33:16.2 0.0 0.0
2. 6 M. ØSTBERG 2:33:23.7 +7.5 +7.5
3. 11 P. SOLBERG 2:33:26.1 +2.4 +9.9
4. 4 J. LATVALA 2:33:28.0 +1.9 +11.8
5. 2 S. OGIER 2:33:31.0 +3.0 +14.8
6. 1 S. LOEB 2:34:57.7 +1:26.7 +1:41.5
7. 8 K. RÄIKKONEN 2:38:19.2 +3:21.5 +5:03.0
8. 16 P. ANDERSSON 2:38:47.2 +28.0 +5:31.0
9. 18 P. SANDELL 2:40:57.7 +2:10.5 +7:41.5
10. 15 M. WILSON 2:40:58.1 +0.4 +7:41.9
*** *** ************* ******* *******
15. 51 C. BREEN 2:47:25.5 +52.2 +14:09.3

overshoot

solberg may lead when final times are released. he got a 10second penalty for checking in late but he was held up by snow ploughs or snow mobiles.... some sort of snow vehicle

homer simpson

That quite frankly was one of the strangest things ive seen! The "power stage" was live there on ESPN, Ogier won the stage and get 3pts, leob second gets 2pts, and JM Latvala third gets 1pt but the real drama came when Solberg had his racing license taken off him for speeding and Cris Patterson his navi had to drive the stage for him :eek:....

Leob then broke his steering and seemed to have broken down after the stage finish, but i believe he got going again but still might not make it to park perme.

Overall results.
1. M. HIRVONEN
2. M. ØSTBERG +6.5
3. J. LATVALA +27.5
4. S. OGIER +13.7
5. P. SOLBERG +43.5
6. S. LOEB +59.1

pajor

He he he, Ford 1 2 3

Haven't been able to watch it. What exactly is the power stage?

Roll on Mexico, arrriba

homer simpson

pajor wrote: »

He he he, Ford 1 2 3

Haven't been able to watch it. What exactly is the power stage?

Roll on Mexico, arrriba

It is the last stage of the rally that they will be showing live for every event this year. Basically fastest time over the "power stage" gets 3 extra points, 2nd fastest 2pts, 3rd place 1 point, this is on top of whatever points you may have won by your overall finishing position.

Henry Ford III

Cars are rather different this season. 1.6l Fiesta's!

Nice though

De Hipster

For each day of each event YouTube have the ESPN full coverage courtesy of JMLatvalaFan: http://www.youtube.com/user/JMLatvalaFan