Vodafone Rali of Portugal

[cali]

That´s obvious...Araujo was about 3 minutes in front after the 1st day...on the 2nd day he just had to arrive without any major mistake or problem!

It rained a lot at the first day, and how he got the 3min advantage? By having tires that nobody else had (at least other frontrunners). But i'm not saying that he is a bad driver. I saw him in Sweden and was impressed!

[Corny]

There is interesting fight going on between Austria and Argentina just before rally of Portugal. By scoring 3 points in Mexico Stohl manage to move Austria one place up in the all time points standings by country, replacing 10th placed Argentina.
Also, Peter and Henning are moving rapidly Norway up in the list.

The current standings (after Mexico) are:

1 - Finland - 5801
2 - France - 3408
3 - Sweden - 2649
4 - Italy - 1766
5 - Spain - 1405
6 - Great Britain - 1271
7 - Germany - 784
8 - Kenya - 671
9 - Belgium - 517
10 - Austria - 403
11 - Argentina - 401
12 - Norway - 377
13 - New Zealand - 330
14 - Estonia - 207
15 - Japan - 194
16 - Australia - 158
17 - Portugal - 138
18 - Uruguay - 67
19 - Greece - 48
20 - Czech Republic - 44
21 - Ivory Coast - 41
22 - United States - 39
23 - Qatar - 21
24 - Monaco - 19
25 - Chili - 16
26 - Brasil - 14
27 - Ireland - 13
28 - Indonesia - 12
29 - United Arab Emirates - 12
30 - Hong Kong - 7
31 - Switzerland - 5
32 - Uganda - 4
33 - Cameroon - 3
34 - South Africa - 3
35 - San Marino - 2
36 - Denmark - 1
37 - Malaysia - 1
38 - Netherlands - 1
39 - Saudi Arabia - 1
40 - Turkey - 1

Who scored that Dutch point?

[jparker]

Who scored that Dutch point?

Well, I have Ivan Postel (NL), and I translated it as Netherlands.
Is that right?

[FF-fan]

The first teams arrived:

http://www.fotosralis.online.pt/ambienterp07/

[PuddleJumper]

Following a serious accident involving their brother Pablo, Luis and Jorge Perez Companc will miss this weekends WRC event.

Full story here.

[Tom206wrc]

Let's hope Pablo will quickly recover

[Simmi]

I assume the Munchis cars are there and ready to run so its a shame. I understand them pulling out seen as it is such a family centred team, but its a shame they couldn't throw some other drivers in the cars for a run. It probably isnt allowed anyway.

[Corny]

Well, I have Ivan Postel (NL), and I translated it as Netherlands.
Is that right?

Never heard of him
you know which rally that was?

[kabouter]

Yvan Postel's WRC results: http://www.rallybase.nl/index.php?ty...&driverid=2674

He competed with a Dutch licence in that period. Maybe he had dual nationality French/Dutch, but he lived (lives?) in France and as far as I know didn't compete in The Netherlands.

[White Sauron]

Argentnians shouldn't have withdrawn the team... They could miss the rally as drivers, but it would have been very noble from their side to provide some talented drivers with the cars... For example, Wilks... I think it would be better for him to drive the 06 verion instead of 04...