Best Round of the WRC

Just finished,
Best roads, best scenery,
full stop
well done loab, again .....

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IIIRII
Just finished,
Best roads, best scenery,
full stop
well done loab, again .....

Oh I like it but I though the best round was coming up..

Let me check.
Yep, here it is:
Neste Oil Rally Finland Neste Oil Rally Finland 02 - 04 Aug 12

Because we can add:
best competition---by far
best fans
waaaaaaaaaay more cutie pies per square meter than NZ can imagine.
If the Finnish honeys aren't enough they wisely imported a lot of cutie Russian wimmiz from just next door.

And the best, there's a chance to catch a F-cup event which some have argued is the best series and class structure in the whole world...

That's not to say NZ isn't nice..
It is...
But.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

LOL

Finland ain't a rally, it's an air show....

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

Spoiler alert!

my favorite is any one that is really muddy because that's when loeb seems to actually struggle :p

So I finally got round to watching this and godam those roads are fugin wonderful...

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

FWIW:
from the twitterverse:

Ken Block
Goodbye, New Zealand. Thanks for having the best roads in the world. See you again sometime in the future... http://instagr.am/p/MSYNW2o6WY/

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First Rally: 2001
Driver (7), Co-Driver (44)
Drivers (16)
Clerk (10), Official (7), Volunteer (4)
Cars Built (1), Engines Built (0) Cages Built (0)
Last Updated, January 4, 2015

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john vanlandingham
Blame is for idiots. losers.

He hasn't been to Finland. Maybe this year since X Games is early.
He may actually do better in Finland than he has in other rounds.

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Grant Hughes

Hence the FWIW.
It was also a tweet from someone who understands and excels at marketing himself. Not exactly the best medium for critical commentary.

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First Rally: 2001
Driver (7), Co-Driver (44)
Drivers (16)
Clerk (10), Official (7), Volunteer (4)
Cars Built (1), Engines Built (0) Cages Built (0)
Last Updated, January 4, 2015

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john vanlandingham
Blame is for idiots. losers.

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NoCoast
He hasn't been to Finland. Maybe this year since X Games is early.
He may actually do better in Finland than he has in other rounds.

Doubt that, seriously doubt that. He has only done well when the roads are very easy, ie tarmac like in Germany, or NZ where he's been 4-5 times previously and the roads are very good and very consistant and having watched NZ for 25 or more years I say very easy to see.

Finland roads are obviously pretty damn difficult as we see so often from the scores of Finns crashing so violently. We get to see a lot of the more open parts cause its better filming than the narrow and heavily Forested parts, but a lot of the roads are very narrow, very little room from error.
Same like in Sweden and I've driven 10s of thousands of kms on rally type roads and didn't give it a thought how close the ditches were or the nasty rocks just 2 inches from the edge when i was driving my Transit van down those skinny roads to get to a sand pit to go ride my bike, but once I had done rallies here on our PNW roads, our nice wide enough for a semi truck road, when i would go back and drive down these roads with tree branches whapping at the mirrors on both sides of the skinny little shit-box I was driving i was totally aware and paranoid of the narrowness, and the rocks and ditches just 5-6" off the tire tracks...

When we average 70 mph on a stage its one thing, when they average 100-110 km/hr on those roads its another thing altogether..

It may be one of those things you have to see to believe.. (hence why I say everybody should go watch a District level event, and cruise down the roads mindfully)

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

That you, Glenn?
is there a nice FJ24 lurking in there?

Kinda hard understanding precisely what you mean when you said "________________________________"

Nice piccie tho

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

That is me and my son
Not a FJ24, Thats with the A15, it then had a hayabusa engine in it, then I sold it.
Now it has a vq35 (350z engine)
The guy that owns it now did have one with a real fj24 in it yeas ago.
He is putting 240 rs bits into it like struts, diff, etc:

1992 Monte Carlo

best round of the WRC hands down.

look it up.