(WRC Australia) Loeb's Citroen c4 wrc under investigation!!!!

**steve_spackman** · 16th September 2009, 01:30

Originally Posted by Xsara Fan

But where is Conrad?

Hopefully coming to his senses, that he is indeed not worthy of a drive in the WRC!

**Hartusvuori** · 18th September 2009, 17:30

Today, responding to a suggestion from Eurosport journalist Stéphane Vrignaud that the public felt the penalties handed out in Australia were too severe, Quesnel said: "The public is right. As for us, we are still in shock. An administrative error has been punished by a sporting penalty and I do not understand why."

http://www.wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk...l+in+shock%27+

What public? I've gotten completely opposite picture from the case...

**Juha_Koo** · 18th September 2009, 17:39

Penalties were too severe? LOL.

**Daniel** · 18th September 2009, 18:40

Originally Posted by Juha_Koo

Penalties were too severe? LOL.

Yeah I think that's a bit rich. Although I don't believe Citroen did anything which was outrageously wrong, they did break the rules and were penalised. End of story.....

**Saabaru** · 20th September 2009, 22:59

What a bunch of crybabies! They should have been disqualified! Why would the WRC even put this garbage on its website?

**anesa** · 21st September 2009, 15:56

Photos of the parts in question on today's GPWeek P16
http://www.gpweek.com/PDF/GP064.pdf

**Daniel** · 21st September 2009, 16:04

Originally Posted by anesa

Photos of the parts in question on today's GPWeek P16
http://www.gpweek.com/PDF/GP064.pdf

LOL

So the part was homologated but a picture was missing.

Now it's obvious that there was no cheating going on and I'm sure all the people who were on here preaching about cheating etc etc will come back say how wrong they were and so on and so forth?

the part itself had already been homologated but that the team never noticed that a picture of the part used on the cars in Australia was missing from the official papers.

P.S Thanks for the link

**Brother John** · 21st September 2009, 17:09

I never come back to say that the the french are not wrong.
They spoil still the future from WRC and even F1.

**Daniel** · 21st September 2009, 17:12

Originally Posted by Brother John

I never come back to say that the the french are not wrong.
They spoil still the future from WRC and even F1.

I think you'll find that Flabio Briatore is Italian and Pat Symonds is British

But don't let the truth get in the way of your illogical anti-French sentiments

MJW · 21st September 2009, 20:22

I must admit from the story in gpweek.com it does seem an embarassing error, and not an attempt at cheating. However, based on that I think the penalty was about right, afterall Ford had 5 mins with those "thin" windows, and that was a deliberate attempt at gaining a weight advantage.