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FahrerGott
They say it's up to date. But Channel10 Australia is listed and there is nothing on their TVGuide, website or Twitter about WRC (Yet).
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Last year, we didn't get broadcasts until a week or two after the event was run.
 
Are you sure? I don't think we got any at all here in Aus.
Hopefully that list is right and we'll get up to date highlights from Sweden onward at least.

6 hours til S1 start :D
 
Last year's shakedown:

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This year's shakedown:

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FahrerGott
Are you sure? I don't think we got any at all here in Aus.
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Pretty sure - I remember a half-hour wrap-up being on late at night on One HD. It was usually in whatever timeslot was convenient, so sometimes it was on a few days after the rally, and sometimes it was on a week or more after the rally.

Roger the Horse
Is there a schedule for the Monte's stages anywhere?
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All times are UTC+1:

SS1 - Le Moulinon—Antraigues 1 - 9:03
SS2 - Burzet—St. Martial 1 - 10:21
SS3 - Le Moulinon—Antraigues 2 - 14:21
SS4 - Burzet—St. Martial 2 - 15:39

SS5 - Labatie d'Andaure—Lalouvesc 1 - 9:33
SS6 - St. Bonnet—St. Julien Molhesabate—St. Bonnet 1 - 10:14
SS7 - Lamastre—Gilhoc—Alboussiere 1 - 11:37
SS8 - Labatie d'Andaure—Lalouvesc 2 - 14:50
SS9 - St. Bonnet—St. Julien Molhesabate—St. Bonnet 2 - 15:31
SS10 - Lamastre—Gilhoc—Alboussiere 2 - 16:54

SS11 - St. Jean-en-Royans—La Cime du Mas - 9:08
SS12 - St. Nazaire le Desert—La Motte Chalancon - 13:31
SS13 - Sisteron—Thoard - 15:29

SS14 - Moulinet—La Bollene Vesubie 1 - 15:11
SS15 - Lantosque—Lucéram 1 - 15:54
SS16 - Moulinet—La Bollene Vesubie 2 - 17:12
SS17 - Moulinet—La Bollene Vesubie 3 - 20:58
SS18 - Lantosque—Lucéram 2 - 21:41

A full itinerary is here, with live timing here.
 
1st stage down. Loeb 20 seconds quicker than all the other drivers... Until Ogier comes through quickest 3 seconds faster.
1. 8 S. OGIER M 27:31.8 0.0 0.0
2. 1 S. LOEB M 27:35.5 +3.7 +3.7
3. 10 D. SORDO T 27:52.0 +16.5 +20.2
4. 2 M. HIRVONEN M 27:52.5 +0.5 +20.7
5. 5 E. NOVIKOV M 28:00.8 +8.3 +29.0
6. 11 T. NEUVILLE T 28:05.1 +4.3 +33.3
7. 7 J. LATVALA M 28:05.4 +0.3 +33.6
8. 4 M. OSTBERG M 28:20.6 +15.2 +48.8
9. 21 M. PROKOP 28:39.4 +18.8 +1:07.6


An Italian driver looks to be streaming the entire rally live from onboard here.
http://new.livestream.com/direttarally/montecarlo2013?logged_in=1358325803
 
Most of the top runners are through stage 1 and Ogier leads! http://ewrc-results.com/results.php

I think more snow is expected on the next stages though so he'll fall back on none studded tyres but the others may have damaged their studs on such a long mostly dry stage

EDIT - Ogier IS on 4 studded tyres with 2 more in the boot, bravo Seb
 
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Loeb took the lead back with a good margin.

Leading positions after SS2:

1. Sebastien Loeb Citroen 52m38.2s
2. Sebastien Ogier VW + 6.7s
3. Dani Sordo Citroen + 39.6s
4. Juho Hanninen Qatar M-Sport Ford + 44.7s
5. Thierry Neuville Qatar M-Sport Ford + 53.3s
6. Mikko Hirvonen Citroen + 54.2s
7. Bryan Bouffier PH Citroen + 56.9s
8. Mads Ostberg Qatar M-Sport Ford + 1m09.5s
9. Evgeny Novikov Qatar M-Sport Ford + 1m09.9s
10. Jari-Matti Latvala VW + 1m25.6s

Looks likes it's gonna be a Sebastien fight.
 
Timings are all fubar...

As of S3

1. 11 T. NEUVILLE T 1:19:14.8 0.0 0.0
2. 22 B. BOUFFIER 1:19:31.2 +16.4 +16.4
3. 5 E. NOVIKOV M 1:19:32.0 +0.8 +17.2
4. 1 S. LOEB M 1:20:12.5 +40.5 +57.7
5. 8 S. OGIER M 1:20:16.5 +4.0 +1:01.7
6. 10 D. SORDO T 1:21:15.1 +58.6 +2:00.3
7. 4 M. OSTBERG M 1:21:16.0 +0.9 +2:01.2
8. 2 M. HIRVONEN M 1:21:43.8 +27.8 +2:29.0
9. 21 M. PROKOP 1:21:44.1 +0.3 +2:29.3
10. 7 J. LATVALA M 1:21:47.7 +3.6 +2:32.9
11. 6 J. HANNINEN T 1:22:15.0 +27.3 +3:00.2

Every timing site has different times recorded... Including official WRT twitter accounts.
Funny feeling all times are going to be reset tomorrow. Very sketchy.
 
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Here are the standings:

Leading positions after SS4:

Pos Driver Team/Car Time/Gap
1. Sebastien Loeb Citroen 1h39m49.0s
2. Sebastien Ogier VW + 1m20.3s
3. Mikko Hirvonen Citroen + 1m46.7s
4. Dani Sordo Citroen + 2m01.2s
5. Jari-Matti Latvala VW + 2m32.2s
6. Evgeny Novikov Qatar M-Sport Ford + 2m50.6s
7. Bryan Bouffier PH Citroen + 2m57.1s
8. Juho Hanninen Qatar M-Sport Ford + 3m03.5s
9. Mads Ostberg Qatar M-Sport Ford + 4m45.1s
10. Martin Prokop Czech Ford + 7m11.0s

Autosport said stage 3 times were wrong but it's all been cleared up now
 
FahrerGott
List of TV Stations showing WRC highlights this year.
http://www.irallylive.com/ir_news.htm?00002789&10
They say it's up to date. But Channel10 Australia is listed and there is nothing on their TVGuide, website or Twitter about WRC (Yet).
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Ugh nothing for US. I figured Speed wouldn't show it again with the changing tides under Fox, but was hoping someone would pick something up, even if airing it late.:grumpy:
 
Ogier gets a few seconds back on Loeb with a win in Stage 5, but loses most of them in Stage 6, which was won by Novikov.
 
Amazing rally, a lot of ice snow etc ...
Everything we can expect about a Monte Carlo.
But I am very sad for Thierry Neuville and his codriver, this is just bad luck.

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I found this on youtube 👍



Hanninen in this video :crazy::scared::drool:
 
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Loeb is on top once again in the opening stage of the rally.

There are various reports about a wide range of tyre chocies for the leaders all over Twitter. The next two stages have not been used in over a decade, so no-one has any real experience with them.
 
All I can say is the VW is impressive out of the box, but they never seem to do anything half tailed either. We all knew Loeb would be fast regardless!
 
That Polo looks really cool. I hope I will be able to visit a rally this year. It's quite different than going to the track.

Shame that there is soo little coverage these days.
 
richiem2282
beautiful cars...
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and photo's. Reminds me of why I fell in love with the WRC. And these smaller 1.6L WRC cars are finally growing on me.

Tomorrow I might have to start WRC3 up again :drool:
 
Phenomenal pictures. I adore the Polo, such a beautiful car. :drool:

Thanks for the post, prisonermonkeys. 👍
 
Loeb is making the sport look bad, I say that because he's not even competing for the championship and he's wiping the floor with everyone again, he can't win the championship but everyone else is so far behind him he just makes them look bad, at the end of the year when Sebastian Ogier is world champion nobody is going to take it serious.

His approach to Monte Carlo appears to have been "well I can't beat loeb so I'l just get a nice 2nd place, since Loeb cant win the championship anyway". I dunno it leaves me thinking that perhaps WRC is in need of some more top level talent, and that we're almost at an alltime low for excitement in the sport.


I really like the New VW cars though!
 
Bigbazz
Loeb is making the sport look bad, I say that because he's not even competing for the championship and he's wiping the floor with everyone again, he can't win the championship but everyone else is so far behind him he just makes them look bad, at the end of the year when Sebastian Ogier is world champion nobody is going to take it serious.

His approach to Monte Carlo appears to have been "well I can't beat loeb so I'l just get a nice 2nd place, since Loeb cant win the championship anyway". I dunno it leaves me thinking that perhaps WRC is in need of some more top level talent, and that we're almost at an alltime low for excitement in the sport.


I really like the New VW cars though!
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Regarding Seb L. I think it is the mark of a true champion level competitor that even though he has no chance of winning the 2013 WRC Drivers Championship he is still racing to 100% and nothing less. I look on the Monte Carlo Rally in that way rather than saying even a driver who isn't going to win can still beat the rest of the field like Sordo, Ogier and Novikov or indeed the other drivers can't even beat a driver who isn't going to win the title. As much as I am an M-Sport fan I have to give him massive credit. I look on the glass as being half-full rather than half-empty.

Regarding Seb O, that was my first thought when I watched highlights of Day 2 on WRCforeva's page which I a subscriber of. But maybe that is no bad thing. The fact it is only a partial season by Seb L shouldn't stop him from giving 100%. I did not expect him to ease of just because he is not doing a full season. I was under no illusion that really it was going to be a fight for 2nd place. And for Ogier to get 2nd place still shows me he has all the skills to win the WRC title.

Let us not forget Hyundai are doing selected rounds. I can't wait for them to announce something. I am hoping Chris Meeke is one of the drivers.
 
My point is that Ogier has accepted 2nd place, he even said that the plan was never to try to beat Loeb, if he's going to be the new world champion then surely he should earn it by atleast putting up a fight to the current world champion. When Loeb is so so good that if he was doing a championship nobody would even consider that he could lose, it almost feels to me like whoever wins is merely being handed the trophy by default.

Loeb is making everyone look bad in Monte Carlo, he's ahead by a massive massive margin, It would be like Michael Schumacher coming back for one race and then lapping the whole field.

I think it's fine with Loeb giving 100% and I don't think that should change, but what I'm saying is that by beating everyone by such a margin he is proving he is still the best in the world, and if nobody wants to even try to beat him just because they know he cant win the championship... that just makes it a sad story of a championship to me.
 
Bigbazz
My point is that Ogier has accepted 2nd place, he even said that the plan was never to try to beat Loeb, if he's going to be the new world champion then surely he should earn it by atleast putting up a fight to the current world champion. When Loeb is so so good that if he was doing a championship nobody would even consider that he could lose, it almost feels to me like whoever wins is merely being handed the trophy by default.

Loeb is making everyone look bad in Monte Carlo, he's ahead by a massive massive margin, It would be like Michael Schumacher coming back for one race and then lapping the whole field.

I think it's fine with Loeb giving 100% and I don't think that should change, but what I'm saying is that by beating everyone by such a margin he is proving he is still the best in the world, and if nobody wants to even try to beat him just because they know he cant win the championship... that just makes it a sad story of a championship to me.
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If what you are saying in the last paragraph, and in nutshell terms, the above, then I really don't think it is the fault of the other drivers. It is just Loeb is so much better it looks like they are not trying. All except of course Ogier if he did settle on fighting for 2nd place on the outset of the rally.

I openly admit I am not in a position to understand hundredth's and thousandth's in terms of time rather than the standard context of mathematics so I admit I am probably totally wrong, but looking on the times for the drivers on wrc.com, outside of Loeb it seems as if the drivers are quite close to each other. I mean given a good stage and fast time they could close the gap on the one above. At the moment Sordo is +1.7 behind Novikov. I assume that if Dani can find 1.7 seconds and if Evgeny has a poor stage Sordo could take 3rd from Novikov. For me that says everyone is on a par with each other with Loeb in a field of his own.
 
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