Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2012

[EightGear]

So, after two totally different starting positions for Ford and Citroen, we end up with Solberg, Latvala and Hirvonen within a few seconds.

5 seconds to be precise.

[N.O.T]

Ford 1-2 at the end of this day...but small differences...cannot wait for tommorow.

[Martin Luijk]

So Ford won. Loeb crashed down and both Latvala and Solberg are in front of Hirvonen.

[dimviii]

Paddon with strong 2nd split

[bluuford]

R E S P E C T !!!

Nothing more ...nothing less.

You do that as a profession ???

No, mostly just as a hobby.. but sometimes I need it for work as well. if it would be work only then I would not study weather maps until 2 AM in the morning.

[kolvas]

Loeb was third overall after two stages only to hit trouble on the very next run, rolling and inflicting substantial damage to his Citroen DS3 WRC.


“They went off on a situation when the road turned on the top [on a crest], the road turned to the right and Sebastien turned to the left,” said Matton. “The pace note was good, but he didn’t follow the indication, just before the top the road was going a little bit to the left and we think he was looking more to the road and he didn’t follow the note. Sebastien said the impact was not heavy. We don’t know how many times the car rolled, but enough to make sure it won’t start tomorrow.”


Matton continued: “The cage was damaged on the top. Sometimes this can happen if the first roll is heavy, but we don’t know. Anyway, the cage is bent. This can happen, it’s the rally. We still have one car and we try to take maximum points with Mikko [Hirvonen] and try to be leading at the end of the rally.”

This is why I want more nightstages, the codrivers job is more important. I´m confused that this happend Loeb and Elena

[focus206]

This time not bad for Ketomaa...

[EuroTroll]

This time not bad for Ketomaa...

Yup. Getting better.

[Mirek]

Paddon very nice time again

[miksu]

interesting rally so far! Well done Paddon, Tänak and Neuville has done good too.