WRC

[MIHAI.]

De cativa ani urmaresc cu interes Campionatul Mondial de Raliuri!

BP-Ford World Rally Team ---- Official team

TEAM PRINCIPAL:
Malcolm Wilson

DRIVERS:
Marcus Gronholm
Mikko Hirvonen

CAR: Ford Focus RS WRC06

S-a terminat si etapa din Norvegia--->>> Dubla pentru Ford
1 M. Gronholm (FIN) Ford WRT 24:10.3
2 H. Solberg (NOR) Ford Stobart 24:15.3 00:05.0
3 P. Solberg (NOR) Subaru WRT 24:15.8 00:05.5
4 M. Hirvonen (FIN) Ford WRT 24:19.2 00:08.9
5 S. Loeb (FRA) Citroën WRT 24:27.4 00:17.1
6 J. Latvala (FIN) Ford Stobart 24:28.2 00:17.9
7 G. Galli (ITA) Citroën PH Sport 24:30.9 00:20.6
8 C. Atkinson (AUS) Subaru WRT 24:41.5 00:31.2
9 J. Hanninen (FIN) Mitsubishi 24:47.5 00:00.0
10 D. Carlsson (SWE) Citroën Kronos 24:54.1 00:43.8

DRIVERS' STANDINGS
1. M. GRÖNHOLM (FIN) 24 Pts
2. M. HIRVONEN (FIN) 20 Pts
3. S. LOEB (F) 18 Pts
4. H. SOLBERG (N) 11 Pts
5. D. SORDO (E) 8 Pts
6. P. SOLBERG (N) 8 Pts

Teams Total Monte Suedia Norvegia
Carlo
1 Ford WRT 44 10 16 18
2 Citroën WRT 28 18 9 1
3 Ford Stobart 16 1 5 10
4 Subaru WRT 15 8 2 5
5 Citroën Kronos 14 2 7 5

sincer mie ca driver mi se pare cel mai bun Sebastian Loeb!

[sfm]

Sebastian Loeb este un talent adevarat, care confirma an de an.

[Cornel001]

unde pot sa ma inscriu si eu in wrc ?

[toxicristi]

Cornele, sa vezi acolo echipa de mecanici, nu ca astea de pe la reprezentante. Ar mai trebui sa le dea niste lectii!

Numai bine echipei Ford !

[zvony]

Cornel cred ca si pe aia i-ar certa, iar dupa fiecare proba speciala, cand ar ajunge la finis, ar intreba ce consum a scos.

[VIPER]

Gronholm se retrage la sfarsitul sezonului 2007...




"BP-Ford World Rally Team announced today that world championship leaders Marcus Gronholm and his co-driver Timo Rautiainen will retire at the end of the 2007 FIA World Rally Championship season.

This follows a series of recent performances which have established the crew as one of the most outstanding competitors in the history of world championship rallies.

Gronholm and Rautiainen have already won two WRC titles. This season they are leading the drivers' championship by ten points over Citroen's Sebastien Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena.

"This has been an incredibly hard decision for me to make," said Grönholm. "Rallying has been my life for so many years and when the Monte Carlo Rally comes round in January to start next year's championship, it will feel strange not to be there. But the time is right for me to finish now. I wanted to stop while I still had the speed to win rallies. I didn't want to leave the decision too late so that I wasn't capable of winning any longer."

"This will allow me to spend more time with my wife and three children. They have fully supported me all the way through my career and I would like to thank them for that. I could not have achieved what I have without their encouragement. Now this decision is made, I want to concentrate on the remaining five rounds of the season. We lead both the drivers' and manufacturers' championships and I would like nothing more than to end my career with another title," he added.

Gronholm started his rally career in 1987 but success did not come for many years. It was 13 years, a week after his 32nd birthday, and more than six months after being invited to drive on his first fully professional contract with Peugeot Sport that the duo scored the first of their 30 world rally wins.

The Finnish pair are the second most successful world championship pairing in the sport."

[VIPER]

Si o veste mai trista:

"It has been reported that McRae was killed in a helicopter crash on 15 September 2007 but the identity of the victim(s) has yet to be confirmed by police."

"A helicopter believed to be registered to former World Rally Champion Colin McRae has crashed near his home in Lanark, Scotland."

Poate, totusi, nu era in el...

[VIPER]

Din pacate...


R.I.P., COLIN MCRAE!!!

"From The Sunday Times September 16, 2007
Rally champion Colin McRae dies with son in helicopter crash

The former rally driving champion Colin McRae was killed and his five year-old son feared dead in a helicopter crash yesterday afternoon. The aircraft came down in Jerviswood, Lanarkshire, half a mile from the family's home and burst into flames just after 4pm.

Jean-Eric Freudiger, McRae's agent, said the 39-year-old driver had been piloting the helicopter himself. Also on board were believed to be his son Johnny, another adult - said by locals to be a school friend of McRae - and another child. McRae's wife Alison and their daughter Hollie, 9, were not on board, friends said.

Strathclyde police said in a statement: "Four people were onboard the helicopter," adding "The bodies were found within the helicopter which is owned by Mr Colin McRae of Jerviswood House, Lanark. It is believed he was onboard the helicopter."

McRae became Britain's first World Rally champion in 1995. He was one of the country's most successful sportsmen, achieving 25 wins in World Rally events and 42 podium places. He was a flamboyant driver, inspiring one the world's best-selling computer rally games.

The helicopter came down within half a mile of McRae's 16th-century home, which has an adjacent helipad. The weather had been overcast, with southwesterly winds gusting to 30 knots and good visibility.

Officers with dogs and torches continued to comb the woodland near the crash into the night.

McRae's wife, a childhood sweetheart and his former co-driver, was taken back to the house under police escort shortly after 6pm.

McRae's friend the rally journalist Jeremy Hart, who flew with him several times, described him as a "very good, very measured pilot".

"Colin regularly flew all over the UK and into Europe," said Hart. "He knew the terrain and conditions at Jerviswood very well.

"As a sportsman he was a true hero. As a driver Colin was misunderstood slightly as being reckless but everything you saw with him came from pure raw talent as opposed to being learnt. He was the Michael Schumacher of rally driving.

"It's so ironic that he should die in a helicopter crash when he had competed and had brushed with death so many times as a rally driver."

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Video Tribute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwb-RNbdx5U


Dimineata mergea... Acum e... Negru...

[Tzepi]

R.I.P. Colin McRae...

[MIHAI.]

ce wikend najpa> penalizari in F1, colin, Gronholm....

[deejay_xb]

de departe cel mai bun pilot de raliu, un om moderat si la locul lui, mare pacat...

Acum o sa piloteze din ceruri!

RIP!

[oxigenbog]

eu inca nu pot sa cred ca a murit...

[VIPER]

Da, UK a suferit pierderi mari in domeniul WRC: Richard Burns, Michael Park, ColinMcRae... Toti intr-un an... Trist si dureros, nume foarte mari si oameni deosebiti...

[Alen]

alte starpituri nu pier.....numai oameni deosebiti...
odihneasca-se in pace!

[VIPER]

Io am deja o teorie... Chiar daca o sa par nebun, singura explicatie pentru pierderile din ultima vreme e ca Dumnezeu ii vrea langa el inainte sa inceapa ceva rau aici, jos...

[oxigenbog]

ai mah...nici chiar asa...

[VIPER]

Nu am alta... Nu vad alta... S-au dus unul dupa altul nume mari, unele pierderi fiind aparent fara sens...

[Mihai L]

$2u am alta... Nu vad alta... S-au dus unul dupa altul nume mari, unele pierderi fiind aparent fara sens...

Cand a avut sens moartea vreunui om?

[Alen]

$2and a avut sens moartea vreunui om?

Mereu...
depinde din ce punct de vedere privesti lucrurile...

[mariuscociorva]

1. mare pacat de colin
2. ce a patit Burns , si ce a patit Gronholm?

[VIPER]

Richard Burns a murit in Noiembrie 2005 (Doamne, au trecut deja 2 ani???) in urma unei tumori la creier... Avea 34 de ani...

Michael Park, navigatorul lui Marko Martin, a murit in cursa tot in 2005, in Septembrie...

Gronholm doar se retrage, atat. http://forum.clubford.ro/viewtopic.php?p=115909#115909