Rally Japan 2010

[Claudie_Schnaudie]

I don't understand so much fuss about Kimi's maiden win of the last stage in Germany. Clearly nobody was making too much effort except him and Wilson on that stage - all others had no hope to improve their rally standing there so they didn't push. Let's wait for his first challenging stage win to celebrate. I will be the first to scream in agony of happiness.

Well and I don´t understand why you come up with that now in this topic


About this rally: It will be a tough one and I don´t care about his times. Just hope that he continues to get experience, has fun and doesn´t makes too big mistakes

[ReAlien]

I don't understand so much fuss about Kimi's maiden win of the last stage in Germany. Clearly nobody was making too much effort except him and Wilson on that stage - all others had no hope to improve their rally standing there so they didn't push. Let's wait for his first challenging stage win to celebrate. I will be the first to scream in agony of happiness.

Well and I don´t understand why you come up with that now in this topic

Cause almost every bit of info about him mentions that stage win as some ultimate achievement. Including those from this particular topic. "Räikkönen not getting carried away.." and so on. I'm almost sure he's sober about it as I am. Of course, his goals for Rally Japan will stay the same - nothing's changed after that last German stage - he's rookie genius getting his experience. He needs to get to the end of Rally in the first place.

Didn't mean to offend anybody, including you.

[sleenster]

I don't understand so much fuss about Kimi's maiden win of the last stage in Germany. Clearly nobody was making too much effort except him and Wilson on that stage - all others had no hope to improve their rally standing there so they didn't push. Let's wait for his first challenging stage win to celebrate. I will be the first to scream in agony of happiness.

Well and I don´t understand why you come up with that now in this topic

Cause almost every bit of info about him mentions that stage win as some ultimate achievement. Including those from this particular topic. "Räikkönen not getting carried away.." and so on. I'm almost sure he's sober about it as I am. Of course, his goals for Rally Japan will stay the same - nothing's changed after that last German stage - he's rookie genius getting his experience. He needs to get to the end of Rally in the first place.

Didn't mean to offend anybody, including you.

Well, I like to look on the bright side of things.
I prefer to be reading bits of news about him winning super special stages (no matter how insignificant they are) instead of reading about him crashing out and having to super rally.

[Kinga]

Cause almost every bit of info about him mentions that stage win as some ultimate achievement. Including those from this particular topic. "Räikkönen not getting carried away.." and so on. I'm almost sure he's sober about it as I am. Of course, his goals for Rally Japan will stay the same - nothing's changed after that last German stage - he's rookie genius getting his experience. He needs to get to the end of Rally in the first place.

Didn't mean to offend anybody, including you.

Just to make it clear: you didn't offend me at least but I gotta say something about this. It must be quite an achievement even if "almost nobody" pushed like hell on that last stage if every review talks about that stage win. These articles were not written by biased Kimi fans so I assume it might mean something good, something that should be mentioned.

There must have been quite many situations like these in the past but still there are rally drivers that haven't won any super special stages during their career although they have been doing this for years but for Kimi it did happen only at his 8th rally.

Now, call me biased (because I am). That's just my opinion.

[sleenster]

http://rallyx.net/blog/2010/09/post-485.html

[ReAlien]

I just don't want him to be jinxed by all this fuss.

Kimi stay on these roads!

[Acropolis]

Is the itinerary announced yet? I simply can't find it

[Kriss]

Is the itinerary announced yet? I simply can't find it

here it is : http://www.rallyjapan.jp/j/pdf/10RJ_RG1 ... raries.pdf

[ReAlien]

I'll have to to add 6 hours to my time to get Japanese one. Please don't forget about time difference, guys!

[Acropolis]

Is the itinerary announced yet? I simply can't find it

here it is : http://www.rallyjapan.jp/j/pdf/10RJ_RG1 ... raries.pdf

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[saif]

Rain could make for tough Rally Japan

Despite Japan baking in an Indian Summer with temperatures rising above 30 degrees, Ford driver Jari-Matti Latvala has warned of the possible problems sudden rain showers can cause on Rally Japan.

The Finn reported a good road surface for much of the Sapporo-based event on the two-day pre-event recce, but he said parts of the Sunday route - particularly the superspecial stage - could be tough if it rains.

“Before the recce there had been some heavy rain around there,” said Latvala. “And with the surface of the road like it is, the water doesn’t really get sucked into the surface - it just sits on top of the road like soup. It can make it quite tricky when the conditions are like this. We saw last time, in 2008, we had some aquaplaning moments when it had rained really heavily, we could see that again.

“On the whole the recce was good, we had no problems. The stages on Friday and Saturday are quite similar to 2008, which is good. The roads have been re-graded for the event, but the grading is all in big, loose gravel which, in the dry weather, will get quite cut up. Sunday is all new and there are some sections which are narrow, but generally they’re good roads.”

Latvala’s fellow Ford driver Henning Solberg admitted he wasn’t completely at home on the southern Hokkaido gravel.

“I preferred this event when it was in Obihiro (further north on the island of Hokkaido),” said Solberg. “The roads were better up there, they flowed more. I don’t really like these stages - I don’t know why we do some of them, except I guess there’s more people out here than there was in Obihiro.”

The forecast is for continued warm weather, but with an increasing chance of rain. The 35-degree temperatures which hit Tokyo yesterday were replaced with torrential rain today, which is believed to be associated with a typhoon moving into the area - that weather front is not expected to move north in time to effect the 10th round of the World Rally Championship.

http://www.wrc.com/news/rain-could-make ... ?fid=13579

[tigerlily]

Rain could make for tough Rally Japan

Despite Japan baking in an Indian Summer with temperatures rising above 30 degrees, Ford driver Jari-Matti Latvala has warned of the possible problems sudden rain showers can cause on Rally Japan.

The Finn reported a good road surface for much of the Sapporo-based event on the two-day pre-event recce, but he said parts of the Sunday route - particularly the superspecial stage - could be tough if it rains.

“Before the recce there had been some heavy rain around there,” said Latvala. “And with the surface of the road like it is, the water doesn’t really get sucked into the surface - it just sits on top of the road like soup. It can make it quite tricky when the conditions are like this. We saw last time, in 2008, we had some aquaplaning moments when it had rained really heavily, we could see that again.

“On the whole the recce was good, we had no problems. The stages on Friday and Saturday are quite similar to 2008, which is good. The roads have been re-graded for the event, but the grading is all in big, loose gravel which, in the dry weather, will get quite cut up. Sunday is all new and there are some sections which are narrow, but generally they’re good roads.”

Latvala’s fellow Ford driver Henning Solberg admitted he wasn’t completely at home on the southern Hokkaido gravel.

“I preferred this event when it was in Obihiro (further north on the island of Hokkaido),” said Solberg. “The roads were better up there, they flowed more. I don’t really like these stages - I don’t know why we do some of them, except I guess there’s more people out here than there was in Obihiro.”

The forecast is for continued warm weather, but with an increasing chance of rain. The 35-degree temperatures which hit Tokyo yesterday were replaced with torrential rain today, which is believed to be associated with a typhoon moving into the area - that weather front is not expected to move north in time to effect the 10th round of the World Rally Championship.

http://www.wrc.com/news/rain-could-make ... ?fid=13579

Thanks for information.

Today the weather was fine in Sapporo. The weather forecast says it will be fine tomorrow too and the temperature will rise to +28 degrees C.
The typhoon is slowly moving northward but typhoons rarely hit Hokkaido area.　Usually typhoons pass away around the middle part of Japan.
But this typhoon seems to be a little strange. It hit north part of Japan for the first time in recorded history.
So I can't deny the possibility of rain though I don't hope rain.

[Kriss]

thanks tigetlily for the weather report
you are our special correspondent from Japan

[Acropolis]

Kimi published his preview......but don't know how to post it here.....

[Claudie_Schnaudie]

Kimi published his preview......but don't know how to post it here.....

ROOOOOFFFLLL! Kimi sounds philosophical with his "they say...". Comparing this preview with the german one: it´s like day and night.

BTW I don´t get this guy?!! He is saying that "the japanese fans are the most excited ones"! what does he want? I thought he can´t stand it when people follow him everywhere and scream his name?
So for france I give him a present as well! If he wants one he gets one!