Or it could be a single engine failure in Estonia and a freak incident in Finland like the one Huttunen had in the same rallye.
It's rallying, stuff happens.
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Or it could be a single engine failure in Estonia and a freak incident in Finland like the one Huttunen had in the same rallye.
It's rallying, stuff happens.
Loubet also had an issue in Finland, immediately after service, which makes it look less random.
He ran both passes of the non-PS stage in stage mode and on PS he complained that the engine was losing power trough the stage.
Also Tänak had to have engine replaced in Finland PET.
So seems like more than a coincidence to me
I checked and found the article
https://sport.postimees.ee/7821921/t...valja-vahetama
"Malcolm Wilson, the owner of M-Sport, confirmed to Postimeh that on Tuesday, Tänaku's car had a similar problem during the Finland rally test, and the machine had to have its power source replaced."
After Tanaks amazing win in Finland last year in the i20, I heard many comments that he drove the doors off it and the car probably disintegrated shortly after the last stage.
Maybe that's his style now and he drives a car as hard as it can be driven and if it breaks it breaks.
I wonder if all his cars faults and unreliability going back to his Toyota days, through Hyundai, and now M-Sport, have one common denominator...
You're quite silly, because now Loubet also has reliability issues and doesn't drive it as hard as Tanak for sure. Plus, in the Toyota days it was also all drivers with issues whenever they struck Ott as well, so it was a car problem.
Being a fan is fine but don't kid yourself, it's okay to recognize that the Puma is no longer up to the challenge of it's rivals.
Before the 2022 Finland event just a day before the start his wife got very sick and checked into the Hospital in Estonia. Ott wanted to forfeit the rally but his wife urged him to continue and he had a different state of mind after that. He went absolutely mad on this event but this style isn't sustainable and he said that already during the rally back then.
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