WRC * World Rally Championship

ese audi si era de lo mejor

y pa que vean que era la mejor epoca hasta FERRARI tenia un auto de rally

y hasta porsche tubo autos en el grupo B usando los porsche 959 y ademas corrieron en el rally paris-dakar.
En 1986 fueron los mas rapidos y terminaron en primer y segundo lugar

Huy hermosos esos carros ome, el Metro 6R4 si era una cosa graciosa, era como el R5 Maxi, chiquito y culon...el Lancia una monstruo, con su motor Supercargado y Turbucargado...el Audi excelente, pero el rey en tecnologia si era el Peugeot 205 T-16 Evo.2, que gano los dos ultimos titulos bajo el grupo B, aunque el del 85' se lo quitaron a un piloto de Lancia...

Por otro lado, el Ferrari de rally no era del Grupo B, era un Grupo 4: el Ferrari 308 GTB 4...y el Porsche 959 si fue en proyecto de Porsche para entrar en los Grupo B, pero llego muy tarde...igual ahi queda la Victoria de Jackie Ickx en el Dakar para demostrar que hunieran hecho...Porsche en los 80's tenia el 911 Carrera RS de Rallys, pero al ser tracción trasera poco podia hacer frente a los 4WD excepto en el tarmac...

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Rally Finland Leg 2:

Leg two was fully expected to be a mix of highs and lows for the competitors.The busiest day on the rally schedule featured over 188 km of stages, with 66 km being two runs through the infamous Ouninpohja. While no one was able to reel in either BP-Ford cars on Leg one, it was hoped that the longer stages would give some of the other teams more of a chance.

The day started off with a Sebastien Loeb stage win and a glimmer of hope for the field, but then the long stages came.Stage 13 saw Manfred Stohl roll his car multiple times after dropping two wheels into a ditch. The day was done for the OMV Kronos Citroen driver, but thankfully no one was injured in the accident. The same stage also saw the beginning of car troubles for Petter Solberg.

The same mechanical issues the Norwegian had at the beginning of Leg one reappeared in time for the longest stage of the rally. Solberg, again, began to complain of poor handling even though his team-mates never suffered from similar issues.
Juho Hanninen also suffered mechanical trouble on Ouninpohja, losing a cylinder during the 33.11 km stage.The Mitsubishi limped into service where it was retired for the day.

Gronholm meanwhile went on a rampage taking stage win after stage win while his main competitors continued to run into trouble. On stage 15, Dani Sordo, who was lying in fifth ran into car troubles on stage and had to stop before reaching the finish. The Spaniard retired and Solberg temporarily inherited fifth.T he Subaru driver quickly dropped down the rankings as the car proved impossible to drive, and he, too, was eventually retired from the rally.

The retirements created a wonderful battle for sixth place between Urmo Aava and Xavier Pons, with the gap between the two drivers closing down to as little as 0.4 seconds between stages.
As the remote third service of the day approached it was discovered that Guy Wilks, who had been sitting eighth overall damaged his back, and his Ford Focus, during the second run of Ouninpohja. The car lost all hydraulic fluid and could not be repaired with the limited resources of the remote service. The Focus was still drivable, but Wilks began losing massive amounts of time to Mads Ostberg. The Subaru driver eventually caught and passed Wilks on the leaderboard during the day's final stages.

Gronholm continued his relentless pace through the longer stages and into the shorter stages 17 and 18 until he had built a 21 second lead over team-mate Mikko Hirvonen. Hirvonen then took the final two stages of the day, but only managed to claw back a second with the back to back wins.

With three stages left on Leg three, the top five seem settled into position and the bottom three points giving spots, positioned for an all out assault. While stages 21 and 23 are shorter tests, Leg two has proven you can never rule out the roads of Finland, and what damage they may bring to the standings.

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Rally Finland Leg 3:

Marcus Gronholm made it three stage wins for the day as he went on to win Neste Oil Rally Finland in convincing style. While the remainder of the top five were separated from each other by a few tenths of a second, Gronholm put an exclamation point on his rally by pulling out a 1.7 second advantage on the shortest stage of the day. The rest of the top five followed in the order they had been finishing all day.

Guy Wilks shot up the stage times with a fifth place finish in a last ditch effort to overtake Mads Ostberg. The attempt nearly paid off as Ostberg suffered a broken half shaft during the previous stage effectively turning his Subaru Impreza into a front wheel drive only machine. Wilks had been 38.4 seconds behind at the beginning of the stage and as the split times came in, it seemed the impossible could happen. Unfortunately for Wilks, he simply ran out of stage kilometers as Ostberg finished 14th on the stage, with seven seconds to spare. The Adapt Subaru driver was ecstatic to be done with the rally and more than happy to claim his first ever WRC point.

Urmo Aava also had reason to celebrate as the Estonian earned his first world rally points with a seventh place finish overall. He was eighth on stage.

Matthew Wilson was set for a final stage fight with Andreas Mikkelsen that never came. Mikkelsen went off on stage giving Wilson, who gingerly brought the car to stage finish, the tenth overall position.


Final Positions:

1. Marcus Gronholm (Fin) - Ford Focus RS WRC
2. Mikko Hirvonen (Fin) - Ford Focus RS WRC
3. Sebastien Loeb (Fra) - Citroën C4 WRC
4. Chris Atkinson (Aus) - Subaru Impreza WRC
5. Henning Solberg (Nor) - Ford Focus RS WRC
6. Xavier Pons (Spa) - Subaru Impreza WRC
7. Urmo Aava (Est) - Ford Focus RS WRC
8. Mads Östberg (Nor) - Subaru Impreza WRC

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Algunas Fotos del Rally de Finlandia...

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Mas Fotos de los 1000 Lagos

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Excelente 1000 lagos!!!

Este Fin de Semana se corrio también el Rally Vinho Madeira, valido para el I.R.C. (Intercontinental Rally Challenge), certamen que esta resevado a vehiculos de las clases Super 2000, Super 1600. y Grupo N o carros de producción. Muchos dicen que los Super 2000 son el futuro del rallysmo, pues reunen caracteristicas de los WRC pero sin llegar a ser tan caros, por el momento hay varias marcas interesadas en este segmento asi como en la también nueva clase de la FIA, la A7 (Vehiculos de 2 Litros con tracción en dos ruedas)...

Resultados del Rally:

1 - Basso/Dotta, Fiat Punto Abarth, 3h06m13s4;
DQ - Travaglia/Granai, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX, +1m31s1;
2 - Magalhaes/Grave, Peugeot 207 S2000, +2m26s4;
3 - Ojeda/Barrabes, Peugeot 207 S2000, +2m52s8;
4 - Fontes/Prata, Fiat Punto Abarth, +3m39s;
5 - Casier/Miclotte, Peugeot 207 S2000, +5m37s3;
6 - Fontana/Casazza, Fiat Punto Abarth, +5m40s6;
7 - Jean-Joseph/Boyère, Citroen C2 S1600, +6m03s5;
8 - Camacho/Abreu, Peugeot 207 S2000, +6m59s5;
9 - Vouilloz/Klinger, Peugeot 207 S2000, +7m01s1;
10 - Freitas/Figueiroa, Renault Clio S1600, +8m31s1

Cabe destacar que el DQ es el tercero esta temporada para Equipos que compiten con MItsubishi Lancer...

PD: Les quedo debiendo las foticos...

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