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25th April 2016, 04:59 #671
Mads is blaming the car, Malcolm is blaming Mads,even comparing him with Tanak, a driver HE dropped in favour of Mads. It seems to me that the only person who thinks the Fiesta is any good, is Malcolm. There always seems to be another excuse, another tale of woe. At the end of it all,results are what matter, and all this consecutive points finish horseshit aside, there aren't any results to speak of.
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25th April 2016, 06:03 #672
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25th April 2016, 06:30 #673
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As far as i know, or have heard, It is a major engineissue at Mads car, It was there in Mexico, but they isnt allowed to change the engine between Mexico and Argentina due too rules. So they knowed before the rally that they going to have less power. I don't know how less power, but it seems too be quite much.
The team told Mats to don't speak about it in the intervjues, bad PR for car?Radioreporter @ www.radiomotor.no
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25th April 2016, 08:22 #674
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but isnt it weird that the team and Malcolm know the problem is with the car but then they talk the driver down? They should find a different excuse then, the rally doesnt suit the car or whatever.
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25th April 2016, 09:01 #675
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Even without any alleged engine problem I doubt the result would have been much different, the next car was nearly 4 minutes in front.
I suppose the Fiesta is probably the slowest World Rally Car now (not a criticsm, they are up against factory teams with mega budgets) but equally I think they could do better than this.
Mads is simply not number one driver material and Camilli is not even number two material. There is not much available on the drivers market at the moment but last year's lineup was better.
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25th April 2016, 09:05 #676
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25th April 2016, 10:04 #677
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Yeah, Mads was able to go faster than Ott only when Ott had three DMacks:P Camilli even didnt mach that on El Condor.
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25th April 2016, 11:31 #678
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25th April 2016, 13:10 #679
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There just seems to be a general lack of pace from all M-Sport cars at the moment. Mads' consistency is bagging the points, but speed wise not much is going on. Can't help but feel it makes Tanak's Poland performance and Elfyn's Corsica performance in 2015 stand out more.
On the flip side, Hyundai have stepped up with a new car, whereas M-Sport run the same spec as last season, which perhaps makes things seem a little worse.
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25th April 2016, 18:51 #680
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Very strange situation with Ostberg's car in Argentina. Was there no problem with Camilli's and what about Tanak's ??
Mads was quite clear in telling everyone after stages that he was happy with his driving and was usually on the limit... he must have been inferring that it wasn't him that was to blame for the slow times.
Hopefully we will see the evidence in Portugal.
Wet conditions. Portuguese Autosport brought something to the table... the WRC2 crews are using a WRC spec tyre that is harder than the spec Meeke and other CPR runners are using.
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