Mexico Citroen Tactics

[Blitzerflitzer]

No sabotage, no secret plans, just an error. I ask Motors TV, here is the answer:

It was indeed an editing mistake... Thanks for noticing it, and apologies for this inconvenience, we´ll make sure it doesn´t happen again.

[MrJan]

No sabotage, no secret plans, just an error. I ask Motors TV, here is the answer:

It was indeed an editing mistake... Thanks for noticing it, and apologies for this inconvenience, we´ll make sure it doesn´t happen again.

It happens all the time. They fob off parts of one stage as part of another fairly regularly. Whenever I've been to watch a WRC even they clearly use one section and say it's something else, have done for years too.

[Viridian Black]

good old motors tv screw up

[Hartusvuori]

Once again checking the facts ruins a perfect story. But of course for conspiracy theories that doesn't make a difference.

And because I haven't said it earlier, I was very happy about the level of performance from both Ogier and P. Solberg. Only if they could challenge for the win on a few occasion it'd make the championship far more interesting. I remember Ogier being consistently improving from day to day on last year's NORF and it could be that once the faster gravel rallies come, he'll be there to add pressure for Sordo and JML at least. Also for P. Solberg Mexico must've been really good for his mojo, whereas Hirvonen's mojo took quite a few punches throughout the weekend. The worst case scenario is that he'll shell back to his last year's approach (the not-aggressive-enough-to-win) and we'll see a serie of victories from Loeb before the summer break.

[Daniel]

So let's get the "facts" straight.

1. Citroen sabotages Solbergs car by changing his engine right before rally Sweden.
2. This way Solberg gets a bad result and starts late in Mexico
3. Loeb deliberately drops to 2nd in Sweden to be behind Hirvonen in Mexico
4. Solberg whom after Sweden people tell to go home stays first after day 1 just to clean for Loeb even though Ogier is already ahead of Loeb.
5. Ogier gets 5 seconds on Solberg in some 90 seconds of driving, something which he hasn't done the whole weekend and then immediately slows down to stay only a bit ahead.
6. Ogier further "slows" down on superspecial by beating Loeb and matching Sordos time ( who has everything to prove after being worst Citroen the whole weekend) to give 2nd place to Solberg.



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[MikeD]

Well, if Citroën announce the signing of Nelson Piquet Jr. for Rally Jordan then we know that something dodgy is going on with tactics.

...especially if they ask Hamilton to tell the lies about what happened afterwards

[Daniel]

...especially if they ask Hamilton to tell the lies about what happened afterwards

Yeah then they need to fire one of their semi-senior people