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Both Neuville and Evans were born in 1988, Tanak in 1987, so they're almost all the same age. But they might decide to retire at different times.

Wasn't it already mentioned in this forum that Diogo Salvi will drive an extra Puma Rally1 in Portugal?

One had the chance to drive Toyota, one is driving unreliable Hyundai for way too long...
But yes, Abiteboul likes to run his mouth about his drivers.

A bit like saying "if in your country there's a regime you disagree with, you're not supposed to criticize it and fight to change it. You're supposed to silently accept it or move elsewhere"

Finally a decent day from Hyundai, I'm surprised. No cars on the podium again, but Neuville outscored Evans and Tanak got the Sunday win. Evans should have done a little better overall in my opinion,...

Well, there's Fourmaux in the way... this would mean giving Fourmaux the Saturday "win" for the points, never seen team orders to such degree.

It's true that when your rival hits trouble, you must capitalize. But we know that the i20 will break down several times more than the Yaris over the course of the season, so Neuville going from 2nd...

Big damage limitation for Neuville, but this Hyundai...
How many punctures for Evans this rally? 4?

I guess he would end up 9th or 10th with 10 minutes penalty

Sleeping Warrior is 36 Km, if Neuville's issues continue he'd probably lose more than 10 minutes and end up outside the point zone for the ghost Saturday classification.

I don't remember any serious technical trouble for Evans last year... does anyone? Only mistakes.

People quick to give the title to Neuville, I really can't understand why... he drives a Hyundai. As I've been saying, Evans is the favourite for the title, he could be twice as slow as he is, but he...

As a way to make Evans and Katsuta "relax" and be overtaken by Neuville? I could almost believe it, if I didn't have zero faith in Hyundai's reliability. And the gearbox just exploding sounds...

As expected, seems like Hyundai isn't more robust than it used to... Good day for Neuville as he kept close to Evans and Katsuta, but seeing what happened with Tanak and Lappi, he has to hope his i20...

Everyone knows that. But that won't stop us from talking about how Saudi Arabia, a country with no rallies, doesn't deserve a spot on the calendar. Otherwise one just smiles and accepts silently...

Would it be better for Neuville (and Evans, I guess) to open the road on dry surface or with some mud? Normally in a gravel rally, the first on the road would hope for some rain to lower the sweeping...

I wasn't the one who proposed China, but here you go. Looks marginally better and definitely bigger I'd say. And this is their second rally after 2 or 3 years of stoppage because of covid....

What's special about this? You can find bigger and better entry lists in tiny European countries. The typical American rally entry list is usually dominated by old Imprezas from the 90's....

It's time to see if Hyundai has done something significant against the i20's fragility. Last 2 years there were all Toyota podiums, the year before 2 Toyota and 1 Hyundai in 3rd place. My guess is no...

Team orders don't need to be official nor out in the open. Ogier and Kalle will most likely give their positions to Evans, if they're not about to win the rally. And towards the end of the season,...

No, there has never been a Saudi rally in the Middle East Rally Championship nor a rally worth of note. There's the Hail Baja/Rally and of course the Dakar but no traditional rally, unless they're...

Hopefully it's as you say and there won't be a huge difference between Rally1 and Rally2+

That's what I'm wondering as well... if they stay within WRC2 then it's quite unfair for the regular Rally2 cars as they'll have very little chance. On the other hand, how many chances would these...

The times Sordo was close on tarmac are the ones I wrote, all the other times he was behind Loeb, Sordo was 30+ seconds back pretty soon.
Another time they were close was Ireland 2007, but then...

The only instances I could find in which Citroen could have asked Sordo not to challenge Loeb are Catalunya 2007 and Catalunya 2009. Maybe New Zealand 2008, but was a particular case, as Hirvonen and...