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Clearly these drivers (Lappi, Meeke, Mikkelsen) got an advantage in that stage, it is also visible from vids. However, turning it around it's also visible that this late starters did have a...

Well he accused Loeb of not playing fair and left Citroen to crush them with a german car... and now again with english/american one.

Perhaps extra reason to come back to Citroen and rescue them...

The decision to take 3 hards on Saturday morning while whole Hyundai and Citroen went for full soft was imo just as important.

SS20 4:40 in.

0.48 is Panzerplatte a bit after middle of the stage.

EDIT3: First spot is SS20 4:40 in.

What stage is the very first spot?
(I want to check the onboards)

EDIT: Also the spectators on the outside of that dirty forest corner. Check out the guy just looking trough the camera lens as...

I have no idea what the reason was, but it's a fact they changed it.
Example picture of the design on all public pictures from tarmac tests before:...

They had same wheelarches as all others in all test vids until the official launch.

Some speculation why they changed:
- the new design is better and they wanted to keep it secret or it wasn't...

Doesn't look like that.

That said in Poland Toyotas did this nose-high landing a lot as well (especially Hanninen), then there were the test vids for Finland where one day all Toyotas were...

Hyundai really does struggle on fast roads. Now on tarmac just as well as on gravel in Finland.

Portugal SS4

Evans said he had some soft tires while all others had hard.

Waiting for the PS....for speculation:

The top 4 drivers in this rally (seemingly) all don't have contracts for next year. There are also (seemingly) 4 seats available.

Maybe the good Toyota times (all 3 of them now) are also due to the quite faster stages today.

2nd event yes. In IRC days he was good on tarmac, but he also was as fast (and sometimes faster) as Neuville and Mikkelsen on gravel then.

Specially for the first stage he could drive "safe" and fast to see if Mikkelsen still does mistakes like yesterday. 5s behind on such a short stage doesn't fit with that. Taking risks and pushing is...

as always on sunday it's hard to tell who is pushing but still Hanninen surprises again.

Also a bit surprised by Ogier, was expecting him to try to put some pressure early to see if Mikkelsen...

Since you bring the comparison up..

I really hope Tanak doesn't do what Martin did. Leaving M-Sport just as he starts winning with them (due to salary?).

There is no guarantee the Toyota (or...

- Latvala lost 2 mins with puncture, without that his total was about 10 ahead of Sordo.
- Mikkelsen lost 13 with the two mistakes, without that he would be 17 ahead of Sordo for the leg.

Sure...

Finally got to watch Neuville's onboard and it doesn't seem so mythical after all.

He starts to go sideways on power while left wheel is still in the cut. Wouldn't really blame him, most others...

Yes, it's clearly a factor, maybe he could have been faster. But in similar situations on previous rallies this year he typically racked staged wins after returning anyway.

To answer myself from the morning:



- Tanak was surprisingly good on dry tarmac. Compared with most others he gained due to tires in the morning, but Ogier had same tires and still Tanak was at...

He has no contract for 2018 or any more rallies this year. Ogier has 4 titles and has same points as Neuville.

I seem to recall someone had one, but it was on some slow gravel rally without service, extremely unlikely here.

Anyway interesting 4-6 place fight.

Does Hanninen have a spare damper? Else he will loose more.
Evans loosing prbly also due to tires and Breen charging