2008 Rally Italia Sardegna - official thread

Interesting comments from Phill Mills about the route...

http://www.swrt.com/news/latest_news.html?id=1480

He expects massive ruts from dried mud on stage 3/6, on SS8/11 the Monte Lerno jump is apparently even higher this year, animals on the road in the recce on SS13/15, and a very deep and long watersplash on SS14/16 that he expects someone to get stuck in. And apparently the final spectator stage isn't a spectator stage at all becase of the 10 foot elephant grass, which could be a bit tricky for the spectators. :)

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Originally Posted by jonkka

Only one driver can be first on the road, even on shakedown. Drivers' times improve on later runs because they are more familiar with the road and they have better set-up on their car, normal in shakedown.

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Until the stage deteriorate, and times get slower.

PG had gearbox problems on the shakedown. He did only 2 runs.

Nice photos from shakedown:
http://www.frozentime.cz/2008/index....gna/Shakedown/

Ok so which thread?

oh this one! got it lol woops

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Originally Posted by 'Mirek Fric [Cze

]Nice photos from shakedown:
http://www.frozentime.cz/2008/index....gna/Shakedown/

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Amazing photos ! ! ! !

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Originally Posted by White Sauron

What's the reason for the works Fords doing so few runs through the shakedown stage?? Especially with Hirvonen having set so poor time.

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many teams decide on setup of the car in private tests and they use the shakedown just to confirm the setup rather than testing the car. Hirvonen and the ford team had a small test in italy a few days back.

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Originally Posted by N.O.T

many teams decide on setup of the car in private tests and they use the shakedown just to confirm the setup rather than testing the car. Hirvonen and the ford team had a small test in italy a few days back.

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Ok, yes, I see now, thanks for the reminder. Completely forgot of those tests.

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Originally Posted by pettersolberg29

Anyone know the stage times in English GMT?

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Italy is 1 hour ahead of Britain.