Rallye de France Alsace 2011

[Kriss]

Official website
http://www.rallyedefrance.com/

Itinerary
http://www.rallyedefrance.com/wp-conten ... -649Ko.pdf

Entry list
http://www.rallyedefrance.com/wp-conten ... 609112.pdf

[Anelise]

Thanks Kriss!

[sleenster]

Yesssss thanks Kriss

Solberg, Räikkönen and Van Merksteijn Jr take up the Alsatian Challenge!

Petter Solberg, Kimi Räikkönen and Peter van Merksteijn Jr will all be at the start of Rally France-Alsace at the wheel of their Citroën Racing Technologies Citroën DS3 WRCs. The Citroën privateer drivers who scored points in Rally Germany – the first tarmac event of the season – are all determined to move up the World Rally Championship classification.

Rallye de France-Alsace appeared on the calendar last year and
immediately became one of the most popular rounds of the season. The spectators, massed on the sides of the roads in the Alsatian and Vosges stages, were all rooting for Loeb and Citroën creating a unique ambience. Rain, which is frequent in the early autumn, can make the very fast roads very slippery, as can the gravel projected onto the tarmac when cars cut the apex of the corners turning this event into a real challenge for the drivers!

Norwegian, Petter Solberg, will be starting his eleventh ‘Rallye de France’ this year, an event he has already won as he came first in the 2003 Tour of Corsica. ‘Hollywood’ scored another podium finish in Rally Australia and he is currently lying fifth in the Drivers’ World Championship: “This result was a great reward for the whole team, and it’s given our motivation a mega-boost for the last three events of the season.Tarmac isn’t my favourite surface but I like this rally. The roads are very quick and you have to watch out for the multiple grip changes. I finished third in 2010, and I’m hoping for a result that’ll be at least as good this year.”

Kimi Räikkönen did not take part in Rally Australia, and the French round marks his return to the WRC. He had to retire last year and is back for revenge: “I like driving on gravel, but tarmac is more natural for me. I’m tackling this rally like all the others - trying to avoid mistakes and cover the maximum number of kilometres to gain experience.”

Peter Van Merksteijn Jr. finished the last two rallies and is determined to continue his apprenticeship in the world championship. Last weekend, the driver of the eponymous team competed in the Hellendoorn Rally to keep his hand in. He swapped his DS3 WRC for a C4 WRC, and he won this round of his national championship beating Dennis Kuipers. This result has given the Dutchman’s confidence a huge boost and he will tackle the Alsatian event ready to burn up the tarmac!

http://www.citroen-wrc.com/en/season/20 ... ss-release

[Kriss]

World Rally Championship to pilot live web content during Rallye de France

Stages from this week’s Rallye de France Alsace will be streamed live and exclusive on the World Rally Championship’s official website, wrc.com, as part of a pilot project to investigate future digital opportunities for the all-action series.

World Rally Championship promoter North One Sport has made a substantial investment in the trial, which will be used to test the latest camera and streaming technology as well as to gauge the appetite among fans for live online coverage and more interactive content.

The pilot is also the first test of a new partnership between North One Sport and digital specialist, Streamworks.

Around 14 hours of coverage is planned, spread across Friday and Saturday’s competition, with the action available to view free of charge on a web media player accessed exclusively from the home page of wrc.com.

http://www.rallybuzz.com/wrc-watch-live ... de-france/

[sleenster]

It's streaming through wrc.com? The site is gonna crash

[Kriss]

It's streaming through wrc.com? The site is gonna crash

at least this time they have a good reason

[Kriss]

WRC to pilot live web content during Rallye de France

Stages from this week's Rallye de France Alsace will be streamed live and exclusive on the World Rally Championship's official website, wrc.com, as part of a pilot project to investigate future digital opportunities for the all-action series.
World Rally Championship promoter North One Sport has made a substantial investment in the trial, which will be used to test the latest camera and streaming technology as well as to gauge the appetite among fans for live online coverage and more interactive content.

Around 14 hours of coverage is planned, spread across Friday and Saturday’s competition, with the action available to view free of charge on a web media player accessed exclusively from the home page of wrc.com.

The coverage on Friday (30 September) will run between 1300hrs and 2000hrs (local time), with action from Saturday (1 October) shown between 1245hrs and 1930hrs.

On both days content will consist of interviews and atmosphere from the service park and the end of day press conferences. This will be mixed with stage action shot from two helicopters and by cameras mounted inside the rally cars. English and French commentary will be available.

“The digital landscape presents numerous opportunities to further expand the reach of the World Rally Championship and this experiment is a big step forward in our plans to develop formats and content to suit,” said North One Sport CEO, Simon Long.

“We have made a significant investment to get the project to this stage and it’s exciting that we are now ready to try and turn the theory into reality; however it’s important to make clear that this is a trial first and foremost and we expect to learn a great deal. This is unchartered territory, both technically and in terms of programming, but it’s a vital stage in our development plans for the next 12 months.”

http://www.wrc.com/news/wrc-to-pilot-li ... ?fid=15432

[luieluv]

A Google Translation

Kimi Raikkonen: "Asphalt is more natural for me"

Kimi Raikkonen is a man of bitumen, which can give the best of his talent as a driver on the black carpet he walked tirelessly throughout his career in Formula 1 and he finds time to time in the World Rally Championship.

Surface traditional Rallye de France, the asphalt gives the Finn a new chance to improve his curve results this week in Alsace. "I love driving on earth, but the asphalt is more natural for me" he says. "I will address the rally in the same way as the others trying to avoid the mistakes to complete a maximum of miles and gain experience. "

Already registered for this young event last year, Kimi Raikkonen was then forced to retire. Suffered two off the road on the second stage, he gave up to register at the start of the last day with the rule of SupeRally. "W e are so low in the rankings as motivation is not the same and this makes things quite difficult," he acknowledged while.

It is this lack of motivation that convinced him not to make the trip to Australia three weeks ago, a trip he had included in its program but the renounced by comparing the investment necessary for it making and its potential outcome. Kimi Raikkonen will however make the most of the return of the asphalt to improve its image, even if it can not feed the occupied fifth place team in Constructors' Championship . He still has to maintain his eighth position in the drivers championship and continue to accumulate valuable experience, if indeed he decides to pursue a career in rally beyond 2011.

During the Rally of Germany , only asphalt event played to date this season, Kimi Raikkonen equal his best result of the championship with a sixth place.

http://rallye.automoto365.com/news/?lan ... _type_id=1

[luieluv]

Ogier damages car in Rally de France recce

By David Evans Wednesday, September 28th 2011, 14:26 GMT

Sebastien Ogier's preparations for the Rally de France were interrupted when he damaged the front of his recce car yesterday.

The Frenchman fell foul of the metal posts the organisers have placed on the inside of corners in an effort to stop the drivers cutting corners and dragging dirt into the road on the Strasbourg-based event.

An impact with one of the metal posts damaged the radiator on the Mitsubishi Lancer the Citroen team runs as a recce car.

Ogier was unperturbed by the damage. He said: "We have had to change our pace notes from last year. The organisers have put the metal fence posts in each corner, which is better because it means to drivers cannot cut the corners or at least you would need some reinforcement in the car to do this. It's [the route] is better than last year, the roads are drier and the sun is out."

Ogier's team-mate Sebastien Loeb admitted he too had taken a close look at the fence posts to see how close he could get in an effort to shave time off at each corner.

The rally gets underway with a ceremonial start in the centre of Strasbourg tomorrow [Thursday] night.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/94890

[Kriss]

thanks lui

[Mar]

Wasn't it Loeb who had the incident?

My little spies gave me the name of the wrong French then

[Mar]

I have to apologize to my little spies.
It seems, both, MaxiSeb and MiniSeb damaged their recce cars with the metal posts

[sleenster]

I have to apologize to my little spies.
It seems, both, MaxiSeb and MiniSeb damaged their recce cars with the metal posts

When one crashes, the other one follows?

[Mar]

I found in forocoches the list of cars that will have cameras during this weekend live-streamings (thanks to Juha):

Citroën
Sébastien LOEB – Daniel ELENA
Sébastien OGIER – Julien INGRASSIA
Peter SOLBERG – Chris PATTERSON
Kimi RAÏKKÖNEN – Kaj LINDSTRÖM
Peter VAN MERKSTEIJN – Erwin MOMBAERTS


Ford
Mikko HIRVONEN – Jarmmo LEHTINEN
Jari-Matti LATVALA – Miikka ANTTILA
Mads OSTBERG – Jonas ANDERSSON
Henning SOLBERG – Ilka MINOR
Dennis KUIPERS – Frédéric MICLOTTE


Mini
Kris MEEKE – Paul NAGLE
Dani SORDO – Carlos DEL BARRIO

BTW, it seems one of the guys there read us. ¡Hola Viru!

[JordanPeugeot1997]

BTW, it seems one of the guys there read us. ¡Hola Viru!

Hi, man.