32. Int. Jänner Rallye 2015
ERC #1 • ERC2 #1 • ERC3 #1 • ERC Ladies #1 • Austria #1 • Austria Historic Cup #1 [coef 1.5] • Austria Rally Cup #1
4. 1. – 6. 1. 2015, Freistadt • asphalt - snow 237.80 km • Other years
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SS13
"One more, for me five stages to finish the rally. I am happy, I do not push, I just try to stay in the middle of the road. When I see the time I do not understand, I do not drive like my Grandmother, but like my Grandfather."
"Fantastic. This stage is great stage for the spectators, there are a lot of spectators. Last year we run this stage in a Subaru. This time I am driving at 100%. It is difficult to drive when there is big difference between first and second driver."
"We fall in the snow bank, a lot of snow in the front of the car and we lose a lot of time."
SS12
"To be honest it is not rally driving, I am not driving a rally car, just driving a piece of metal sat on the snow. The conditions are so difficult. I have never seen anything like that before in my life."
SS11
"Incredible conditions. Zero grip, every corner is an opportunity to go off. For me I had absolutely no grip, incredible. Try to understand how to drive in these conditions."
"Difficult but it is ok. The road is ok, no push just stay on the road and now seven stages to finish."
"It is good."
"We think it is a little bit dark under the trees, we were using front lightpod. A lot of ice on the stage, snow and ice."
"We started quite slow, the time is not very nice, so we have to speed up a little bit. It is quite slippy, a lot of fresh snow."
The day starts pretty good, no mistake. With a new set of tyres good grip. Let's see if I improve. I want to finish the rally and want to push a little bit more. Maybe we will surprise, not only for me but also for the rally.
"Good stage, no ice. No snow falling."
SS10
"I am happy to be here, I do a lot of experience with 2WD in the snow. Tomorrow I hope to gain more experience."
"We are happy, second thing is that tomorrow we will be sweepers again. We are happy that there is nothing with the car. Today was pretty tough."
"Damaged bumper and lightpod is the problem with the stage before this. It is very difficult."
"It was a good stage. I dont like stages in the dark but I learn how to drive them, I have good pace notes."
Bad conditions, but we are here. Isn't good stage but good day. Tomorrow we will see.
"Good day, good day, good job."
"Really long stage, it is much better. It is he first stage I do completely on the night in a rally. I did not do any mistake so that is good. The target for tomorrow is to finish the rally."
"For the second run I do not make a mistake. I am happy for today, I am learning step by step. I am happy to finish the first day."
SS9
"It is like a dream. The stage is now is better, but in some places we have the ice. There is not so much corner in this stage so you have to find good point to brake. There is not much corner but is not easy stage."
"It was a nice run, clean one but not the fastest as we are very cautious under braking we do not want to make a mistake."
"It is not so ice on the road as the weather is good, good grip. Not a bad stage for me, we change some things and it works for me. The engine is more easy to use than the S2000, but it is not WRC and you must drive again."
SS7
"Conditions are a bit different but okay, we try to stay on the road. These stages are sharp and difficult."
"In our car, everything is okay and no problems!"
"Okay, new experience for us with these tyres on the tarmac parts."
Nice stage, grip is fine and it's faster. More about pacenotes and the pace, so I think we did a good job.
Little bit surprised because there's lots of snow at the start, but later on there's lots of ice and tarmac.
"Still tricky. It’s a shame I spun 2 times. We lost 30 seconds on Lefebvre. Let’s see 2nd loop in the night."
"On this one, there is less snow. We changed the car again in the service. Not easy to open the road again"
SS6
Stopped at the end of Stage 5
"We loved this stage! Maybe a bit boring for others, but we had so many emotions here.."
"We have problems with the car, low water pressure. Stage was okay, lots of snow, no confidence to push in these conditions."
Difficult because there's lots of snow and I can't see the road. But i'll continue to go at my own pace, not pushing.
"Better. When the snow is on the road then the Michelin tyres work very well and I can push."
"Hard stage. Crazy fast.."
In this heavy snow, you don't know where you are.. the wind blows the snow onto the road and you go through 20cm of snow.. ridiculous. No problems though.
SS5
"It was good pace, but very slippery. Still snowing, so.. unbelievable. Everything is white, so difficult to drive."
"We had an oil pressure warning and we turned everything off, and then we went off too.. I think we have a problem with the car."
Neubauer was off the road, but I think he got out. Conditions are very tricky, snow everywhere. You can't see the road in places, was nearly off.. a bit.
This stage was very slippery, difficult to find the road and there's lots of ice under the snow. Difficult, but the time is not that bad! I won't push, just staying on the road.
"The conditions are incredible, lots of snow on the road. I think the next stage will be a bit slower.."
We have special glasses but it's still hard to see. Using the poles to drive on the road.
The stage is a bit cleaner, but it's been snowing a lot and we had to do a lot of road cleaning. This weather is only good for rallying!
SS4
"Stage was clearer than first stage. We try to fix our setup for snow and I think it is much better."
reported stopped
It's fantastic. It's snowing a lot, specially after the start. Sometimes you can't see the road.. but okay, we are having fun and sliding around at big speed.
"It was perfect because we made some changes, better grip and better feeling. Second half of the stage was very slippery, but okay, we are here and continue."
It's getting difficult, started to snow in the last minutes. Lost about 30 seconds in the last kilometers, very slippery.
"This stage was great. We went much faster. Lots of ice on the road."
"We made a mistake in a left corner, lost the line and spun. Had to reverse.."
"I receive these sunglasses from Armin Schwarz and now it is good. With this snow you hardly see the road."
"Now it was okay, lost a lot of time here in the morning. Changed the setup a bit, hope to make better times."
We had a small spin. Conditions were much better than this morning, not having to clean the road. Okay, small mistake, but doesn't matter, you have to learn to get the experience.
"Good stage for us, but i'm not very happy.." / Dobré, ale spokojen nejsem."
SS2
"Not easy to drive a four wheel drive car in those conditions, I have to learn a lot"
"It was a little better in this stage. It’s difficult to drive in those conditions, but it will get better."
"This stage was a lot faster. Difficult, lots of soft snow on the road. Changed the setup a bit before the stage."
"Sliding, sliding, sliding.. very slippery. (Rally plans?) Stay on the road!"
"We have not to push hard because we lost 5 minutes previously, we want to drive fast without problems. No engine problems this time either."
"I never had this condition on this rally, the tyres are good."
"The SS2 is difficult, fast.. hard to find a good position for braking and gear change RPM, I think it’s not necessary to push hard"
"Okay, very slippery. Stage was full ice, I took it very safe. This rally is very very good."
SS1
"The engine overheated and the engine stopped so we had to stop to let it cool down. We lost a lot of seconds, it is a big shame."
"Unbelieveable, slippery stage, a lot of soft snow. It was fun but difficult to drive."
"Is impossible to drive fast and Kato is very fast behind us..."
Went off as he was looking in the mirror looking for Consani behind him.
"Breen is out of road on the downhill and another car, Subaru is out of road. I think my Pirelli tyre is very performant in these conditions."
stuck in snowbank
stuck in snowbank
"It is difficult to stay on the road..."
"It was great, I kept the line, but we nearly had a puncture two times."
"I spun 3 time"
"It is very difficult, I make one small spin after 5 kilomettres. I stop to clear the snow for about 1 minute"