Rally Bulgaria

[tolis]

Photos from 2nd day?

http://www.reporters.com.ua/gallery/1/92/

[Juha_Koo]

nice to see the ford boys are using the subaru/solberg excuses from a few years back....they are not even original in them.

Blablabla... What can we expect from you other than this useless nonsense cr*p talk in every thread?! You're such a positive person. mokin:

You can clearly see even from a video footage that Focus is too soft for tarmac.

[N.O.T]

so what was the point of Hirvonen doing a whole rally 2 weeks before on tarmac if he couldn't spot the problem ??? and why Gronholm was competitive with the ford a few years back ?? Nobody expected the fords to challenge Loeb or Sordo but losing to a tourist on day one is at least funny.

[TMorel]

nice to see the ford boys are using the subaru/solberg excuses from a few years back....they are not even original in them.

and now Petter is battling with the big boys again, so does that mean you think the Ford duo are accurate in their assessment ?

[N.O.T]

and now Petter is battling with the big boys again, so does that mean you think the Ford duo are accurate in their assessment ?

no...because when subaru changed to ohlins they remained slow

Solberg changed the whole car and managed to "battle" (follow is more accurate) with the big boys...

and thats what i am saying...in order the ford kids to do something they need a combo of things in themselves and in the car, not just better supsension, stiffer cars and a garfield toon on the back window....

[Mirek]

Frigyes Turan is a more worthy driver than him, and don't forget he is in a 5-6 year old Peugot 307 WRC, which was never a competitive (or reliable) rally car.

I tend to disagree. The whale was competitive when it was used with right tyres as proved in 2006 by Manfred Stohl, Henning Solberg, Toni Gardemeister or Gigi Galli. In fact the car was later still developed although it was minor progress. Last homologation is from 1st April 2009 !

[cut the b.s.]

]I tend to disagree. The whale was competitive when it was used with right tyres as proved in 2006 by Manfred Stohl, Henning Solberg, Toni Gardemeister or Gigi Galli. In fact the car was later still developed although it was minor progress. Last homologation is from 1st April 2009 !

all true, 'whales' are still decent cars, its a shame we dont see more of them out on WRC events

[Barreis]

Still M-sport works all the time on their machines and what kind of homologation was here.. Minor I guess..

[danon]

Jari-Matti Latvala makes almost the entire afternoon without servo!

"We have the same problems as in Mexico with high altitude," explained Latvala the reasons of the drastic decline of Ford, showing blisters on both hands from excessive effort in the afternoon stages without servo . "Definitely we are mush slower than Citroen. The other reason is that our suspension is not as good as theirs. Yes, we made many improvements in this area recently, but the C4 WRC is much more stable. And third - perhaps there is something in the pilots. "

[danon]

Petter says he will not risk everything in his battle for second place on Rally Bulgaria fighting Sordo - I don't believe it!